A Christian pastor and his wife are running for their lives after being arrested and SENTENCED TO PRISON FOR CELEBRATING CHRISTMAS , among other Christian traditions. Iranian-Assyrian Christian Pastor Victor Bet-Tamraz, 66, was sentenced to 10 years in prison, and his wife Shamiram Issavi, 65, was...

If you’re a Christian, you must be guilty. That seems to be the prevailing belief throughout Pakistan. As a result, Christians in the predominantly Muslim country face barbaric injustice and abuse – even death – under its archaic blasphemy laws, even when there isn’t a scrap of evidence against...

The number of helpless Christians being murdered in Nigeria continues to rise at an alarming rate. This week the ACLJ took direct action in the fight to save them. We filed a critical written submission to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva, Switzerland through our European...

The number of fatal attacks on Christians in Nigeria is hurtling toward the point of no return. Just weeks ago, we told you the number of Nigerian Christians murdered by Islamic radicals this year had tripled to more than 1,200. And even then, we warned you that the deadly violence wasn’t showing...

Christian families in India are being targeted, beaten, and thrown out of their homes simply because of their Christian faith. Just last week, the Christian Post reported that police ordered six Christian families to either renounce their faith or flee after being brutally beaten by a radical Hindu...

The death toll for Christians in Nigeria is beyond grim – IT’S APOCALYPTIC. We must take action now or they will all be killed. Remember just two months ago when we reported that the number of innocent Christians murdered by Islamic radicals in Nigeria had almost doubled from 350 to roughly 620 in...

Turkey’s highest court last Friday annulled a 1934 decree that designated the historic Hagia Sophia as a museum, providing a way for the former Christian church building and historical landmark to be used once again as a mosque. Right after the ruling, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who...

As Turkey has already begun to re-appropriate a historic Christian church into a mosque, multiple world and religious leaders – including Islamic groups – are raising their voices, decrying the conversion of the holy site. We recently told you how Turkey’s President Recep Erdoğan had announced that...

The Special Rapporteur of the U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) recently released a report on violence against women, prior to the latest session of the UNHRC. The intent was to draw international attention to the horrific violence that women face on a daily basis around the globe simply due to...

Worldwide pushback is happening against the decision by Turkey’s President Erdogan to turn a historic church into a mosque. On today’s Jay Sekulow Live , we discussed the international pushback to Turkey’s decision to convert the iconic Hagia Sophia into a mosque. The Christian mosaics contained...

Turkey has converted the Hagia Sophia into a mosque. On today’s Jay Sekulow Live , we discussed the stunning development that Turkey has reconverted a historic Christian church into a mosque. The Hagia Sophia has been an iconic Christian church for centuries. We’ve also posted a new blog from...

Turkey’s President Erdoğan just ordered a historic 1,500-year-old Christian church be reconverted from a Museum into a functioning Islamic mosque. Hagia Sophia (named after God’s Holy Wisdom) in its original form was built by Emperor Constantine as a Christian church sometime around the year 537AD,

Christians in Iran continue to live in constant fear of targeted persecution, including brutal arrest and imprisonment, for their faith. The ACLJ just took action, urging swift international intervention to protect Iran’s Christians and other religious minorities. Iran’s own constitution states...

Christian pastor and humanitarian worker John Cao – a U.S. permanent resident – devoted the last 30 years of his life to serving the poor of China and Burma (Myanmar). Until, as we reported , he was arrested in March of 2017 by Chinese security agents and imprisoned as part of a targeted government...

Through the European Centre for Law and Justice (ECLJ), our European affiliate, we recently filed a written submission with the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) expressing concern over Pakistan’s inability to protect its Christian citizens. While the Pakistani government has taken steps...

We have told you the tragic story of Leah Sharibu . Leah is a Christian schoolgirl who was kidnapped as a 14-year-old along with her fellow classmates in February of 2018. Despite the fact that most of her classmates have been released – five were killed – Leah remains imprisoned because she...

Christians within India are increasingly becoming the target of brutal persecution. And at the ACLJ, we’ve witnessed first-hand the escalation in targeted persecution of these Christians. For seven months, we fought for the freedom of our client, a Christian pastor – an American citizen – Pastor...

Religious liberty is one of our most precious and sacred rights as Americans, often called the First Freedom. But in recent years, it has come under fire. The ACLJ is dedicated to fighting tirelessly for the religious liberty our nation was founded on, as well as urging international intervention...

Through our European affiliate, the European Centre for Law and Justice (ECLJ), we just filed a written submission before the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) expressing concern over China’s continuous attack on religious freedom. As we stated in our report: In January 2020, human rights...