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Pastor John Cao Freed After Harrowing 7-Year Imprisonment in China

Mar. 25VICTORY: Pastor John Cao – a U.S.

We are pleased to announce that our client Pastor John Cao has finally been released from prison in China. He has completed serving a seven-year sentence after being wrongfully convicted for simply living out his Christian faith. We have represented his family throughout most of this horrific situation. As we have previously reported: Pastor Cao...More

UN Working Group Decision Calls on Pakistan To Release Shahzad Masih

Mar. 22Breaking: UN Working Group Issues...

2023 Victories for ACLJ's Affiliate in Pakistan

Jan. 032023 Victories for ACLJ's...

Urging Pakistan High Court To Expedite Hearing Case of Christian...

Dec. 14Urging Pakistan High Court To...

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Save Christian Ayub Brothers

Save Christian Ayub Brothers

On June 8th, 2022, the Lahore High Court, Rawalpindi Bench, upheld the death sentence of two Christian brothers in a blasphemy case. Christian brothers, Amoon and Qaisar Ayub, were accused of posting blasphemous material on the Internet. Our international affiliate the European Centre for Law and Justice’s (ECLJ)More

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Christians Slaughtered to the Brink of Extinction

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Free the Israeli Hostages from Hamas

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Hassan Abduraheem & Kuwa Shamal

Christian Pastors Freed From Prison in Sudan

Pastor Hassan and Pastor Kuwa are now free. Here is the story of their imprisonment and release: In November 2015, Rev. Hassan Abduraheem and Rev. Kuwa Shamal attended a Christian conference in Addis Ababa, Ethopia where Rev. Abduraheem was a speaker. During his speech, Rev. Abduraheem showed the audience a picture of a young man who had been badly beaten for attending a demonstration, and explained that he was helping pay for his medical treatment. The Sudanese government, however,

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Yat Michael Ruot & Peter Yein Reith

Christian Pastors at Great Risk, Banned from Leaving Sudan

On December 14, 2014, Christian Pastor Yat Michael Ruot was arrested in Sudan. At a church service, Pastor Michael had condemned the sale of church land in Khartoum and had expressed concern about the treatment of Christians in Sudan. After the service he was arrested. On January 11, 2015, his friend, Christian Pastor Peter Yein Reith, was also arrested in Sudan after inquiring about Pastor Ruot in a letter he sent to the Religious Affairs Office in Khartoum. For months, both pastors,

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Mariam Ibraheem

Freed from Prison Following a Death Sentence

On Thursday, May 14, 2014, a Sudanese judge sentenced Mariam Ibraheem to death. Her crime? She's a Christian. Raised as a Christian by her Christian mother, the judge ruled her an apostate - a crime punishable by death in Sudan - simply because her father was Muslim. Mariam gave birth to an American girl in the prison, and her son, a 20-month-old American toddler, languished with her in the prison. She had been sentenced to receive 100 lashes and then be executed for her faith. Faced...

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Christian Church Under Attack as Christians Are Arrested and Tortured...

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Oct 30, 2018

The Church is under attack in Sudan, and Christians are being arrested and brutally tortured to the brink of death for preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We recently told you about 12 Christian men who were...

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Sudan Continues to Persecute Christians by Arresting 12 Men for...

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Oct 22, 2018

The dogged persecution and harassment of Christians in Sudan persists, as 12 men were arrested for sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ to Muslims. For years, the government of the mostly-Muslim Northeastern...

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Sudan Forces Christian Refugee Children to Recite Islamic Prayer to...

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Sep 18, 2017

Christian South Sudanese refugee children are denied food in Sudan’s refugee camps unless they recite Islamic prayers. The U.S. Department of State includes three nations on its “State Sponsor of Terrorism”

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