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The inspiring life story of Baroness Caroline Cox, who has used her position in British government to turn the world's attention to humanitarian causes around the globe. "With true Christian compassion fused with fierce courage, Lady Cox continues to shun mere observation for frontline participation." --Charles Colson, Wilberforce Award citation, Washington, USA.

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248 pages
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English
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Monarch Books
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March 4, 2008
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5.5 x 0.7 x 8.5 inches
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0825461642
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978-0825461644
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"The book, like the Baroness' life, delivers a powerful summons for all called to compassion to use what they have, where they are, for the benefit of those they may never see." (Outreach Magazine 2009-03-01)

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Freelance author or coauthor of more than sixty books, Lela Gilbert has also written many song lyrics and several novels. She is the mother of two sons and lives in California.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Monarch Books (March 4, 2008)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 248 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0825461642
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0825461644
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.7 x 8.5 inches

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Lela Gilbert has authored or co-authored more than sixty published books. She writes primarily in the field of ecumenical non-fiction. Besides Saturday People, Sunday People: Israel through the Eyes of a Christian Sojourner and Persecuted: The Global Assault on Christians, she wrote Baroness Cox: Eyewitness to a Broken World, and is co-author of Windows To Heaven: Introducing Icons to Western Christians, with Elizabeth Zelensky. She writes music, poetry and has published fiction and children’s book. She serves an editorial consultant, a contributor to the Jerusalem Post, Huffington Post and National Review Online and is an adjunct fellow at Hudson Institute. She lives in California and Jerusalem.

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gail gardner

Hope

Reviewed in the United States on July 9, 2013

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I am grateful that Baroness Cox has dedicated her life to speaking for the people that are victims of evil. Sadly, children are being maimed in different parts of the world. Hope is needed as well as help.

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Carolyn Hill

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Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2013

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Miss Cox is a relative so I am thrilled to have it and learn more about my family. What a great woman!

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Darren Cronshaw

Responding to injustice with courage

Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2010

Lela Gilbert, Baroness Cox: Eyewitness to a Broken World (Oxford: Monarch, 2007)

Reviewed by Rev Dr Darren Cronshaw

Einstein said "the world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who didn't do anything about it". Baroness (Caroline) Cox has a deep and inspiring commitment to human rights and freedom, and does something about it.

A nurse by professional background, she jokes she is a Baroness by astonishment, having been asked in 1982 by Margaret Thatcher to serve in the House of Lords. She speaks up from that platform on behalf of those facing persecution. She founded HART (Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust) as a vehicle for practical compassion for suffering victims.

In a world that suffers injustice greater than we can often imagine and on a scale where individuals are lost in overwhelming numbers, Baroness Cox travels to where she hears about injustices to collect eyewitness evidence. When she sends aid, she often goes along with it - even if her plane is shot at or she has to cross borders illegally.

Author Lela Gilbert takes the reader on some of the Baroness' travels. We read of Russia and other countries moving on from Communism and their sometimes inhuman treatment of people with disabilities. We meet victims of Burma's brutal dictatorship, including some of the 70,000 child soldiers and Ma Su, a 38 year old Karen lady, who spoke of the soldier who shot her: "I love him. The Bible tells us to love our enemies - so of course I love him. He is my brother." (p116) We are overwhelmed with the scale of suffering in Southern Sudan where 2 million have died, 4 million displaced and Christians are forced into slavery or invited to embrace Islam for food and medicine. We are shown how the growth of Shari'a law, the strict Muslim legal code that discriminates against Christians, is part of the Islamization of nations across the continent. And we are reminded of Indonesia, where 1000s have been killed over the last decade and many more displaced in Muslim-Christian violence.

The book recounts the cry: "Thank you for coming - you show us the broader church cares" and "Please tell the world what is happening to us." It is an inspiring and insightful read - examining political realities, the threat of fundamentalist Islam, appropriate aid responses and the challenge of solidarity with the persecuted church.
It is the story of a gutsy yet gracious woman who stands up for the underdog: "It is not only the perpetrators of crime and evil who commit sin, but also those who stand by - seeing and knowing - and who do not condemn it or try to avert it" (p94). Baroness Cox shows that though we cannot do everything we can do significant things to stand alongside those who are destitute and speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves.

Darren is BUV's Coordinator of Leadership Training. Baroness Cox is available from Christian Bookstores for $19.95. HART Australia was founded in Melbourne in March 2009.
Originally reviewed in Witness: The Voice of Victorian Baptists, (May), Exclusive Web Content.

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gurenda

Read it and be inspired and informed

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 26, 2015

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Baroness Cox is an amazing lady and seemingly fearless! Inspiring read and an eye opener into forgotten struggles in our world. Well worth a read

christopher hedley HILL

A challenging read.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 20, 2015

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A book well worth reading about this remarkable lady.

Mooestone

broken world

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 8, 2012

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I bought this for a friend but he was delighted with it. Came on time so I have no problems at all

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