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...
Challenging Buddhist Meditation Practice in Public Schools
Public schools in several states have started down a slippery slope by incorporating Buddhist meditation practices in the classroom, and the ACLJ is challenging this threat to the religious liberty rights of public school children. Imagine your elementary school child coming home one night and...
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Christian Mom Asia Bibi Saved from Execution
This is the latest installment in a year-end series looking back at some of the numerous victories by the ACLJ in 2018. For more than four years, the ACLJ has relentlessly fought for the life of Christian mother Asia Bibi, engaging in a multi-pronged legal advocacy campaign across the globe. Asia...
U.S. Cuts Funding to Anti-Israel Palestinian Authority
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 called for Congress to end this horrific program, and finally, this year, the Trump Administration and Congress answered our call. For years the Palestinian Authority...
Airbnb Singles Out Jewish Homes for Delisting in Israel
As we’ve been informing you , the ACLJ has been at the forefront of fighting the anti-Semitic, terror-backed “BDS” (Boycott, Divest, and Sanction) movement. BDS seeks to hurt Israel economically and politically. We’ve educated federal and state legislators and helped pass important, cutting edge...
Outrageous, Cowardly Stunt at U.N.
The U.N. was poised to do something it has never done, condemn the terrorist group Hamas for firing rockets at Israeli civilians. Yet at the last minute the enemies of freedom pulled an outrageous stunt requiring a 2/3 vote to pass the resolution, instead of the normal 50% majority. While the...
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...