Great Victory for Religious Freedom in Bulgaria
A parliamentarian bill amending the Religious Denominations Act of Bulgaria aims at “ preventing interference of foreign countries, institutions and persons into religions and religious affairs .” Its official target is the agents of radical Islam. However, in its first draft of October 2018, the...
JSL: President Threatens to Shut Down Southern Border
Congress may have returned yesterday, but they did little more than gavel in and gavel out. On today’s broadcast, we discussed the President’s reaction to Congress’ inability to approve a border security deal and his threat to completely shut down our southern border. As we worried might happen,
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Victory: Student’s Right to Pass Out Holiday Invitations
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 is dedicated to defending religious liberty on campuses all over the country, and that includes elementary schools. When we learned that a first-grader was told she...
Pro-Life Centers Can't be Forced to Promote Abortion
This is the latest installment in a year-end series looking back at some of the numerous victories by the ACLJ in 2018. We won another major victory for Life when the Supreme Court held that California cannot force pro-life pregnancy centers into mouthing a government-dictated message motivated by...
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Pastor John Cao Reflects on Christmas From Prison
Pastor John Cao, a legal permanent resident of the U.S., who has been wrongfully convicted and imprisoned in China for almost two years was able to send a message with his attorneys to everyone praying for him. In a simple statement, Pastor John reflects on the birth of Christ and God’s grace, and...
Pakistani Court Sentences Christian to Death
A trial court in Pakistan has sentenced two Christian brothers to death for blasphemy. In the recent months, the Organization for Legal Aid (OLA), the Pakistani office of our international affiliate, the European Centre for Law and Justice (ECLJ), has worked diligently to defend Amoon Ayub, one of...
Pastor John Cao Could Spend Christmas in Prison
The systematic persecution of the Christian Church in China continues, as they have unjustly convicted and are holding a Christian Pastor behind bars. China’s justice system has yet again delayed the deadline to hear the appeal of Christian Pastor John Cao, a U.S. legal permanent resident...
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...
Supporting Pro-Life Sidewalk Counselors in Federal Case
This week the ACLJ, on behalf of our clients Anthony Miano and Nicholas Rolland, replied to a brief filed by the Defendants, Iowa Attorney General Thomas Miller and Johnson County Attorney Janet Lyness, in our case, Miano v. Miller , in federal court in Iowa. As we told you here , on November 27th,
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...