ACLJ Receives Support in Campaign to Aid Genocide Victims
This is the latest installment in a year-end series looking back at some of the numerous victories by the ACLJ in 2018. For several years, the ACLJ has continuously urged international leaders to recognize the unthinkable atrocities committed by ISIS in Iraq and Syria for what they are – genocide.
ACLJ Helps Couple Use Their Home for Religious Activities
This is the latest installment in a year-end series looking back at some of the numerous victories by the ACLJ in 2018. The ACLJ stepped in to defend the religious and civil liberties of a retired Georgia couple when the local government tried to restrict them from offering their home as a quiet...
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China Continues Its Crackdown on Christians
Late this past Sunday afternoon, Chinese police raided one of the largest urban churches in China— the “Early Rain Covenant Church” in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. Starting around 5pm, the police raided the homes of individual congregants over a 12-hour period; breaking into their homes, threatening...
Christianity Under Attack this Christmas
The war on Christmas is real – and it is raging on. The ACLJ is dedicated to defending religious liberty, and at no time is it more crucial than during this Christmas holiday season. At the ACLJ, we are contacted by localities and concerned citizens when Christmas and other holiday displays are...
Christians in Nigeria Face Worsening Plight – We Must Act
Christians in Nigeria face increasingly worse persecution. The devastation is unmistakable. According to numerous reports , groups like Open Doors , which tracks persecution across the globe, and as reported in USA Today , violent attacks by the Fulani herdsmen are estimated to have killed a...
ACLJ Helps Protect Student’s Rights in School
This is the latest installment in a year-end series looking back at some of the numerous victories by the ACLJ in 2018. The ACLJ stands for Religious Freedom. So when a Christian family in Iowa contacted us because their son - an elementary school student – was threatened with punishment simply...
Bulgaria: Bill Is “Sad Reminder of a Bygone Communist Past”
New legislation pending in Bulgaria would significantly restrict religious freedom and impair the free exercise of Christians in the former communist nation. Bulgaria’s three main political parties sponsored a parliamentarian bill amending the Religion Denominations Act of the country. The bill,
ACLJ Demands Protection of Nigeria’s Christians
In our continuing efforts to combat genocide, this week through our international affiliate with consultative status at the U.N., the European Centre for Law and Justice (ECLJ), we sent a letter to the U.N. Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, Adama Dieng. In our letter, we informed him...
China Should Free Christian Pastor Unjustly Imprisoned
For one Christian pastor, Thanksgiving was spent in a Chinese prison cell, separated from his wife and children in America. Pastor John Cao – a lawful U.S. permanent resident – has faithfully served the people of China and Southeast Asia for decades, conducting humanitarian efforts and building...
Christian Pastor - US Resident - Imprisoned in China
On March 5, 2017, Pastor John (Sanqiang) Cao, a 59-year-old Christian pastor and humanitarian worker, was arrested and thrown into prison by Chinese security agents in Yunnan province, China, as China continues its crackdown on Christians . Pastor John is a U.S. permanent resident from Greensboro,
ACLJ's Important Filing for Pro-life Clients Facing Arrest
The ACLJ is asking a federal court to strike down a state law that is being used to arrest pro-life sidewalk counselors, violating their fundamental free speech rights. On November 27th, the ACLJ filed a Motion for Preliminary Injunction on behalf of our clients, Anthony Miano and Nicholas Rolland.
Big Abortion’s Warped Logic Just Got Even More Twisted
It might be the most twisted attempt to normalize abortion we’ve ever seen. A pro-abortion activist group – appropriately named The Agenda Project – released a puzzling and disturbingly ironic video ad online titled “The Chosen,” which is still going viral today. The video simply features a...
Urging Supreme Court to Protect the Most Defenseless
The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) has filed a friend-of-the-court brief urging the Supreme Court to review an abortion case out of Indiana. The case, Box v. Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky (PPINK) , involves two provisions of Indiana law that were struck down by the lower...
Piercing Big Abortion’s Shroud of Secrecy
We have recently joined a motion in an ongoing abortion industry lawsuit asking a federal court to require critical documents concerning Big Abortion’s sale of aborted babies’ body parts to be turned over. In 2015, the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) released a series of videos that showed senior...