Wednesday 18 November @ 18:00 - 20:00 CET

On Wednesday 18 November, the Intergroup on the Freedom of Religion, Belief and Conscience, co-chaired by ECR MEP Bert-Jan Ruissen and EPP MEP Miriam Lexmann, will host a conference to mark Red Wednesday.

An initiative by Aid to the Church in Need. Every year churches or other landmarks are illuminated in red symbolising the blood of people suffering for their beliefs. Speakers at the conference are Samson Shukardin, bishop of Hyderabad in Pakistan and president of the Catholics Bishops Conference, Anastasia Hartman of Open Doors, Marcela Szymanski of Aid to the Church in Need, Jabez Musa, a Nigerian human rights defender and lawyer and Emmanuele di Leo of Steadfast- Ditelo sui Tetti. The conference is co-hosted by aforementioned chairs, together with ECR MEP Stephen Nikola Bartulica, ECR MEP Paolo Inselvini, EPP MEP Ivo Davor STIER, EPP MEP Matej Tonin and EPP MEP Isabel Benjumea. On Monday night 23 November in Strasbourg, the EP building will be lighted in red to mark the occasion. MEPs will gather in front of the EP building at 20:00.

When: Wednesday @ 18:00

Where: SPAAK 1A2, European Parliament, Brussels