London, 22/04/2017. Today, while St. George's Day parade was held in Trafalgar Square, the Loyal Orange Lodge (L.O.L.) held their annual parade, with lodges and bands, through Parliament Square, Whitehall, stopping to lay a wreath at the Cenotaph. The Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland motto is: "world-wide brotherhood committed to upholding the Protestant faith and the principle of civil and religious liberties for all". <<The Loyal Orange Institution (Irish: An Dílis...
more »London, 22/04/2017. Today, while St. George's Day parade was held in Trafalgar Square, the Loyal Orange Lodge (L.O.L.) held their annual parade, with lodges and bands, through Parliament Square, Whitehall, stopping to lay a wreath at the Cenotaph. The Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland motto is: "world-wide brotherhood committed to upholding the Protestant faith and the principle of civil and religious liberties for all". <<The Loyal Orange Institution (Irish: An Dílis Institiúid Oráisteach), more commonly known as the Orange Order (Irish: An tOrd Oráisteach), is a Protestant fraternal organisation based primarily in Northern Ireland. It also has a significant presence in the Scottish Lowlands and lodges throughout the Commonwealth and United States. […]Its members wear orange sashes and are referred to as Orangemen. […] Politically, the Orange Order is a conservative British unionist organisation with links to Ulster loyalism. It campaigned against Scottish independence in 2014. The Order sees itself as defending Protestant civil and religious liberties, whilst critics accuse the Order of being sectarian, triumphalist and supremacist. It has also been criticised for associating with loyalist paramilitary groups. […] Orange marches through mainly Catholic and nationalist neighbourhoods in Northern Ireland are controversial and have often led to violence […]>> (Source - Wikipedia.org). The name Orange Order originates from William Prince of Orange (From the Netherlands) who landed in Devon in 1688 to restore parliamentary democracy and prevent the imposition of the Catholic religion by James II, known as the "Glorious Revolution", the alleged beginning of parliamentary democracy in Britain.
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