Mr. David Turner:

I will deal first with the Cathaoirleach's question about Ukraine. The issue of the abduction of children has not, as such, crossed our desk. What has very much crossed our desk is the issue that where Russian forces have a more solid and semi-permanent control of regions in eastern Ukraine, a religious policy is being enforced quite strongly that would give freedom to Russian Orthodox communities but not much to anybody else unless they are willing to toe the line in regard to the occupation.

We have had situations where independent evangelical churches have just been closed down by Russian-backed forces, pastors have been detained for a period and many have fled the area under Russian control. That is the effect in Ukraine.

Also within Europe, we are getting increasing reports of violations of religious freedom in Belarus. In the past couple of weeks, we have seen a Pentecostal church razed to the ground and a retired pastor was arrested in the past month for participating in a public act of witness. Again, it seems that in Belarus people have religious freedom if they belong to the Belarusian Orthodox Church but if they belong to any other church, they are going to find themselves in trouble.

Before I hand over to my colleagues, Pastor Nathan reminded me that I have not answered the question about how our organisation is supported. Our organisation is supported simply by the voluntary contributions of individual Christians in Ireland who see the persecution of Christians worldwide as an important issue and one they want to see addressed. It is through their donations that we are able to function. We function at home by just having a small staff. I am the only full-time member of staff and we have two other part-time members of staff. We report regularly on what is happening around the world and we would organise events to highlight the persecution of Christians, such as an annual conference. Overseas, we seek to channel aid to like-minded organisations that are working in areas such as supporting the families of prisoners who are suffering for their faith. We would support those who have had to go into exile and those who have been internally displaced, such as in Nigeria. We would also support the church in Iran as it seeks, despite the persecution, to spread the good news of Jesus, and the provision of scriptures in such countries as well. That is how we get our money and use our money.

Davood may have final remarks about his country of Iran.