I’m a Christian. It may be something that you have noticed about this blog. I believe God can speak in dreams, words and visions. It doesn’t happen often, but I do get the odd dream and vision I believe is from God. This is the story of one of them. Some months back, I had a vivid dream. In it, I saw an abandoned ancient city. It was in ruins. But there were still people living there. As I approached, these people came out of the ruins. They were in rags. They looked at me and said ‘We are the Lascars’. With that, the dream ended. I didn’t recall ever hearing the word ‘Lascar’ before, so I looked it up. It turns out that Lascars were early sailors, primarily from India, as far back as the 1800s. They signed on to ships in the European navies and served around the world. Many served on British ships and this brought them to the UK. They settled in London and other ports. Many became lonely and destitute. They had been abandoned by their own country but not accepted by their new country....