Police Pay Street Preacher Wrongly Arrested for Islamophobia

Scotland Yard awarded $3.056 to a street preacher they wrongfully arrested for racism in February. Oluwole Ilesanmi pleaded with police officers “not [to] take my Bible away” as they handcuffed him. A video of his arrest in London has since gone viral with...

Rep. Smith Chairs Hearing on Christians Under Attack

Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), co-chairman of Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission along with Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA), today held a bipartisan hearing on the perilous state of religious freedom for Christians in China, Nigeria, Iran and other places around the world....

State Dept. Releases Religious Freedom Report

Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Ranking Member of the House Subcommittee on Global Human Rights and Co-Chair of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, welcomed last week’s release of the State Department’s annual International Religious Freedom Report. “The State...

Children Massacred in Assault on Christian Town

Five children playing near a monastery and one woman on a nearby street were killed as a result of heavy shelling on the Syrian Christian town of al-Suqaylabiyah came under heavy assault on May 12, 2019. Eight others, including six children, were wounded. The assault...