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WorldNetDaily: “Roger Kiska, counsel in Europe for the ADF, said it appears simply to be an issue of state control over a family. ‘The opinions in the Johansson case reflect an underlying attempt by the Swedish state to conform Dominic to the bureaucrats’ image of a child, rather than respecting the right of the family and the parents, and even the right of the child to be with his family,’ he said in the HSLDA report.”

OneNewsNow: “Alliance Defense Fund’s [Roger Kiska] reports that the new socialist-dominated government passed a law six years ago that stripped [a] dissenting synod of its access to the legal system. ‘The government decided that they didn’t believe in church autonomy, and they interfered in a big way. They stripped the synod of its legal personality and then overnight issued a warrant that couldn’t be appealed in court and took over 100 church properties,’ Kiska explains.”

ADF Attorney Roger Kiska writing at The Christian Post / Advancing Religious Liberty: “A couple months ago in June, attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund and the Home School Legal Defense Association filed Johansson v. Sweden with the European Court of Human Rights so that that the Swedish government will return a seven-year-old homeschooled boy to his parents. Dominic Johansson was forcibly seized by Swedish authorities from his parents in June 2009 after they had boarded a plane in their move to India. The reason? He was homeschooled . . . So, could Europe’s degree of intolerance and crackdown on homeschooling reach American shores anytime soon? It all depends on how vigilant we are in opposing decisions like the one in New Hampshire—and it’s precisely why ADF is fighting to protect parental rights in that case and abroad so that a very nasty cancer is not allowed to grow.

National Secular Society (UK): “ADF lawyer [Roger Kiska], who is located in Croatia, said . . . ‘It means that we become players with all of the draft committees on conventions and treaties, from things like the international criminal court statutes to things potentially like the Convention on the Rights of the Child, where we as legal experts can come in and provide input on the things that we feel are important.’” | ADF News Release

OneNewsNow: “‘[It] means that we become players with all of the draft committees on conventions and treaties, from things like the international criminal court statutes to things potentially like the Convention on the Rights of the Child, where we as legal experts can come in and provide input on the things that we feel are important,’ [ADF Attorney Roger Kiska] explains.”

ADF attorney Roger Kiska appeared on the Zeb Bell Show to discuss ADF activities in Europe including the Swedish homeschooling case. | MP3 15:30 mins

ADF Attorney Roger Kiska writing at The Christian Post: “The Wall Street Journal reported on July 6, following Congressional hearings on the subject of the mass deportation of Christian volunteers in Morocco, on the continuing and tragic situation of the Village of Hope orphanage deportees: http://www.online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704911704575327310647304110.html?mod=rss_opinion_main. The Alliance Defense Fund, representing the Village of Hope internationally in the matter of the deportations, affirms the Wall Street Journal’s story that no evidence whatsoever was presented to substantiate the claim that the orphanage workers were guilty of criminal proselytism.”

OneNewsNow: “The European Court of Human Rights has heard arguments in an appeal of a decision that would ban crosses in Italian schools, and a final ruling should come within a couple of months. … ‘Our religious symbols do have a place in the public square, and you can’t censor a message just because you don’t like it,’ [ADF Attorney Roger Kiska] contends. ‘That’s not free speech, and that’s not the way democracy works.’” | ADF News Release

Christian Post: “‘Parents have the right and authority to make decisions regarding their children’s education without government interference,’ said ADF Legal Counsel [Roger Kiska], who is based in Europe, in a statement. ‘A government trying to create a cookie-cutter child in its own image should not be allowed to violate this basic and fundamental human right.’” | ADF News Release

LifeSiteNews: “‘Parents have the right and authority to make decisions regarding their children’s education without government interference,’ said ADF Legal Counsel [Roger Kiska], who is based in Europe. ‘A government trying to create a cookie-cutter child in its own image should not be allowed to violate this basic and fundamental human right.’” | ADF News Release

WorldNetDaily: “The state-sponsored ‘child-napping’ of a Swedish boy because his parents were homeschooling him is being escalated to the European Court of Human Rights, which is being asked to hear the case of Dominic Johansson. The application has been filed by the Alliance Defense Fund and the Home School Legal Defense Association. … ‘We are gravely concerned about this case because of the threat it represents to other homeschooling families,’ said Mike Donnelly, staff attorney for HSLDA and one of nearly 1,700 attorneys in the ADF alliance. … ‘Parents have the right and authority to make decisions regarding their children’s education without government interference,’ said Europe-based ADF Legal Counsel Roger Kiska.” | ADF News Release

OneNewsNow: “The recent mass deportation of Christians from Morocco is getting the attention of lawmakers in Washington, DC. … Roger Kiska with the Alliance Defense Fund attended the hearing and points out that many people are now watching the situation. ‘There are a lot of governments involved: the Dutch government, the U.K., the European Union, the American government is involved,’ he lists. ‘TIME magazine, Christianity Today, the BBC [British Broadcasting Corporation] — you name the international media outlet or the election government and they are watching this carefully, because this sets a dangerous precedent.’”

ADF attorney Roger Kiska appeared on Chris Fabry Live to discuss the Congressional hearings on the expulsion of Christian missionaries from Morroco. | MP3 7:07 mins | ADF Media: U.S. House holds hearing Thursday on Morocco’s deportation of Christians

Worthy News: “A Christian is serving 15 years in a Moroccan jail for evangelism, a Christian rights groups said, while American Christian leaders praised Morocco Thursday, June 17, for its “long history of friendship and religious cooperation.” . . . ‘Christians shouldn’t be targeted for deportation simply because of their beliefs,’ said Kiska, who was scheduled to appear before the Human Rights Commission Thursday, June 18. ‘None of the preconditions for lawful deportation under Moroccan law was met by the government officials in this case. ‘It is vital that no precedent be set that will lead to more human rights violations of this sort, where Christian volunteers can be mass expelled simply because they are Christian,’ he said.”

WorldNetDaily: “The mass deportation of Christians ordered by authorities in Morocco in recent weeks now is getting attention in Washington. Counsel Roger Kiska of the Alliance Defense Fund said a hearing is scheduled Thursday before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission. ‘Christians shouldn’t be targeted for deportation simply because of their beliefs,’ Kiska stated. ‘None of the preconditions for lawful deportation under Moroccan law was met by the government officials in this case.’ ‘It is vital that no precedent be set that will lead to more human rights violations of this sort, where Christian volunteers can be mass expelled simply because they are Christian,’ he said.”

Alliance Defense Fund Legal Counsel Roger Kiska will be available for media interviews following a hearing Thursday before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission concerning the deportation of American Christians from Morocco.

The New American: “The case of eight-year-old Domenic Johansson, separated from his family by Swedish authorities last year over his parents’ decision to legally home school him, has prompted an international outcry from human rights groups, American home schooling organizations, and activists on the World Wide Web. . . . [Roger Kiska], legal counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund in Europe, is serving as international legal co-counsel for the Johansson family. ‘The state was playing Big Brother in this case in a discriminatory manner,’ Kiska told The New American in a telephone interview from Slovakia. ‘[Domenic] was being incredibly well taken care of, and his health was much better when he was living with his parents.’”

WorldNetDaily: “An internationally known human rights lawyer [Rudy Harrold-Claesson, the president of the Nordic Committee for Human Rights] who had agreed to work on the case of a Swedish family whose son was taken into custody by agents of the government social services program for being homeschooled says she has been banished from the case . . . the court apparently removed Harrold-Claesson because the lawyer made an attempt to see the child in the school setting where social services agents have put him . . . ‘What you have here is a socialist country trying to create a cookie cutter kid,’ said [Roger Kiska], an Alliance Defense Fund attorney based in Europe. ‘This kind of thing happens too often where social workers take a child and then just keep him.’” | ADF News Release of December 22, 2009

CNSNews: “Last Thursday, the Grand Chamber of the [European Court of Human Rights] granted a request by the Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Alliance Defense Fund to intervene as a third party on behalf of the MEPs — from 11 different countries — who say the court’s decision is ‘defective for a variety of reasons.’ . . . [Roger Kiska], legal counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund in Europe, told CNSNews.com that the European court has no jurisdiction in the matter, and that the Italian courts are the only ones with the ability to properly adjudicate such cases. ‘Member states are the only ones who can understand their own traditions,’ Kiska said.” | ADF News Release

DF, which represents MEPs from 11 different nations, argued in a legal memo that a lower chamber’s ruling last year in favor of an “offended” parent who wanted the crosses removed exceeded the European court’s authority over such matters within Italy.

ADF Attorney Roger Kiska writing in The Philadelphia Bulletin: “Crosses or no crosses, what we are again seeing is a monolithic European court overreaching into the sovereign affairs of a nation that simply wants to manage cultural issues according to its own laws. Americans should take notice. Groups here in the U.S. wouldn’t mind one wit if the U.S. Constitution became subject to the same sort of thing. And, in fact, some of our judges have seemed to indicate that they’d be open to that. That reason together with the considerable concerns over the protection of religious liberty from outside courts are why Italy’s case is so important and why its appeal, currently in motion, should prevail.” | ADF News Release

OneNewsNow: “Italy wants to keep crucifixes in public schools — and in its fight for that right before the European Court of Human Rights, the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) has filed a motion to intervene . . . ‘The Italian courts had decided that they were a symbol of the history and culture of the country, and they went to Strasbourg to the European Court of Human Rights where they ruled that the presence of the crosses indoctrinated the children,’ [Roger Kiska] reports.” | For more information on the case, see this ADF Alliance Alert compound tag: http://www.alliancealert.org/tag/country-italy+court-european-court-of-human-rights/

WorldNetDaily: “The fundamentals of the U.S. Constitution possibly have been shoved one step closer to irrelevance by the U.S. Supreme Court, which yesterday cited as support for its opinion an international treaty that has not been adopted in the U.S. . . . Roger Kiska, legal counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund who is based in Europe, said the Supreme Court’s use of an unadopted precedent ‘completely overlooks the checks and balances system that is established by the U.S. Constitution.’”

C-FAM: “Two recent initiatives out of the Council of Europe (CoE) on sexual orientation and gender identity are seen as the first major step to codify the radical Yogyakarta Principles into the framework of international institutions. The Yogyakarta Principles (Principles) is a 2007 document adopted by a group of human rights ‘experts’ including several United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteurs and members of UN treaty monitoring bodies . . . Although neither CoE document is binding, Roger Kiska, legal counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, warned the Friday Fax, ‘These CoE documents in the future would be likely quoted by the ECHR and influence its interpretations.’”

Alliance Defense Fund attorneys filed a motion to intervene Wednesday on behalf of 32 members of the European Parliament from 11 nations supporting Italy in a forthcoming appeal of a ruling from the Second Section of the European Court of Human Rights.

The Bulletin: “More than 300 parents have filed a lawsuit with the European Court of Human Rights challenging a compulsory anti-Christian curriculum in Spain’s public and private schools that promotes liberal sexuality with graphic imagery while openly bashing the Catholic Church . . . ‘The state shouldn’t usurp the right of parents to raise children according to their beliefs. Forcing students to participate in values training contrary to their convictions is a violation of basic human rights,’ said ADF Legal Counsel [Roger Kiska], who is based in Europe.” | ADF News Release

Christian Web News: “The Home School Legal Defense Association and members of the Alliance Defense Fund have been advising Christer and Annie Johansson on the ‘state-napping’ of their son as they were preparing to move to India, Annie’s home country . . . Roger Kiska Aliance Defense Fund attorney based in Europe said ‘What you have here is a socialist country trying to create a cookie cutter kid. This kind of thing happens too often where social workers take a child and then just keep him.’”

WorldNetDaily: “A plea has been sent worldwide for moms, dads, brothers, aunts and grandparents – in fact anyone – to contact Swedish authorities and ask them to return to his parents a 7-year-old boy taken into police custody over a dispute that includes the family’s decision to homeschool . . . ‘What you have here is a socialist country trying to create a cookie cutter kid,’ said [Roger Kiska], an Alliance Defense Fund attorney based in Europe. ‘This kind of thing happens too often where social workers take a child and then just keep him.’”

OneNewsNow: “The Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) and Professionals for Ethics have filed a lawsuit with the European Court of Human Rights on behalf of more than 300 parents and children opposing the mandatory ‘Education in Citizenship’ program. ‘The curriculum promotes radical sexuality, homosexual behavior, [and] abortion and it openly bashes Christianity,’ explains [Roger Kiska], a Europe-based ADF attorney.”

WorldNetDailya: “A lawsuit has been filed against the Spanish government over mandatory classes that expose children to sexually explicit images and bash Christian beliefs . . . ‘Americans should take note of this case because this sort of situation is not restricted to Spain,’ said [Roger Kiska], legal counsel for ADF based in Europe. ‘Many parents would be dismayed to know that there are organizations in the U.S. that have attempted to persuade school districts to use similar types of curriculum.’”

Mandatory classes with highly sexual, church-bashing content has nation in uproar;
ADF, Professionals for Ethics file suit with ECHR

Roger Kiska serves as legal counsel with the Alliance Defense Fund and is based in Bratislava, Slovak Republic, where he specializes in international litigation with a focus on European law. Kiska is developing the ADF-allied attorney network in Europe, working with allies to litigate European cases that have a potential for impacting ADF efforts in America. Before joining ADF in 2008, Kiska served as legal counsel at the European Center for Law and Justice. He earned his J.D. at Ave Maria School of Law in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Kiska is admitted to the State Bar of Michigan and successfully completed the United Kingdom’s Solicitor’s Transfer Exam–the British equivalent of the American Bar exam.

WorldNetDaily: “The Home School Legal Defense Association and members of the Alliance Defense Fund have been advising Christer and Annie Johansson on the ‘state-napping’ of their son, Dominic, 7, from an airliner as the family was preparing to move to India last year’ . . . ‘What you have here is a socialist country trying to create a cookie cutter kid,’ said Roger Kiska, an Alliance Defense Fund attorney based in Europe. ‘This kind of thing happens too often where social workers take a child and then just keep him.’”

Baptist Press: “‘The immigration court has clearly recognized that basic human rights are being violated by the German policy of persecuting homeschooling families,’ Kiska said. ‘Many Americans are simply unaware of just how bad the policy is.’”

The Christian Institute: “ADF Legal Counsel Roger Kiska said: ‘Parents have the right and authority to make decisions regarding their children’s education without Government interference.’ He added: ‘This is about a socialist Government trying to create a cookie-cutter child in its own image. Without help, the parents in these cases are really powerless since the system is so one-sided.’”

Roger Kiska, European legal counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, said . . . the Cassation Court ruling is a signal that Italy may be prepared to break with the ECHR if the government loses the appeal . . .

ADF attorney Roger Kiska appeared on CBN to discuss this: Swedish government seizes child from home-schooling family.

The MP4 runs just over 4 minutes.

CBN News: “‘Parents have the right and authority to make decisions regarding their children’s education without government interference,’ ADF Legal Counsel Roger Kiska said.”

WorldNetDaily: “‘What you have here is a socialist country trying to create a cookie cutter kid,’ said Roger Kiska, an Alliance Defense Fund attorney based in Europe. ‘This kind of thing happens too often where social workers take a child and then just keep him.’”

Christian Newswire: “‘Parents have the right and authority to make decisions regarding their children’s education without government interference,’ said ADF Legal Counsel Roger Kiska. ‘This is about a socialist government trying to create a cookie-cutter child in its own image. Without help, the parents in these cases are really powerless since the system is so one sided.’”

HSLDA: “Roger Kiska, an Alliance Defense Fund attorney based in Europe, noted that this kind of behavior was shocking but sadly not without precedent. Kiska has been following the case and has sent several letters expressing concern over the incident. ‘What you have here is a socialist country trying to create a cookie cutter kid,’ Kiska said. ‘This family is a little different from the average Swedish family. There are so few homeschoolers in the country that this, along with their issues, has caused the social services agency to take the child in order to coerce changes from the family. Unfortunately. in Europe this kind of thing happens too often where social workers take a child and then just keep him. The parents in these cases are really powerless since the system is so one-sided.’”

A Christian home schooling family could permanently lose custody of their only child simply because they home-school. Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund and the Home School Legal Defense Association are joining forces as legal advisors to the couple in order to persuade the Swedish government to return the seven-year-old child to his parents.

Taiwan News (C-FAM): “According to Roger Kiska, European legal counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, Lautsi is flawed on a number of grounds, including overreach – the ECHR is not a constitutional court – and its disregard for ‘the cultural sovereignty of each Member State.’ The Constitutional Court decision – which deals with civil service matters entirely unrelated to the crucifix case – signals that Italy may be prepared to break with the ECHR if it were to lose its appeal.”

LifeSiteNews: “According to Roger Kiska, European legal counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, Lautsi is flawed on a number of grounds, including overreach – the ECHR is not a constitutional court – and its disregard for ‘the cultural sovereignty of each Member State.’ The Constitutional Court decision – which deals with civil service matters entirely unrelated to the crucifix case – signals that Italy may be prepared to break with the ECHR if it were to lose its appeal.”

“Sources close to the Italian judiciary told the Friday Fax that the decision was intended as a warning that activist rulings by the Strasbourg-based ECHR overstepping jurisdictional boundaries will not be given deference.”

OneNewsNow: “‘Two of [the women] had claimed that they had illnesses that required them to receive an abortion because the pregnancy was a threat to their health,’ Kiska explains. ‘The third [woman] had said that she did not have the financial resources to obtain an abortion abroad — but none of the three women provided even a single document of evidence supporting any of their claims. They never saw one doctor, for example, to substantiate their claims.’”

Magyar Kurir [Excerpt via Google Translator from Hungarian]: “The court allowed a four-abortion organizations, including two Americans, the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) and the Family Research Council (FRC) [to] enter the trial. Nobody has the right to decide that an innocent life is unnecessary . . . said Roger Kiska, legal adviser to the ADF. Glen Lavy . . . pointed out that the outcome of the case is very important for America, as . . . local courts in other jurisdictions [monitor] such judgments, it is incorporated into their practice.”

Catholic News Agency: “‘No one should be allowed to decide that an innocent life is worthless,’ commented Roger Kiska, ADF legal counsel. ‘Ireland’s constitutional amendment defending innocent life is under attack, and the stakes are high for all of Europe.’ ADF Senior Counsel Glen Lavy said the case is ‘pivotal’ not only to Europe but to America as well, because American courts increasingly consider what other countries are doing when deciding their own cases. ‘Because this case could be the Roe v. Wade of Europe, its impact upon the U.S. should not be underestimated,’ he added.”

ADF attorneys are defending legal protections for pre-born children on behalf of the Family Research Council in the European Court of Human Rights against three women who were denied abortions in Ireland and then sued to have the country’s constitutional amendment protecting innocent life abolished.

OneNewsNow: “Abstinence education is celebrating a legal victory in Croatia . . . ‘So the potential of this case was to completely liberalize sexual education throughout Europe,’ [Roger Kiska] explains.”

EurActiv: A pro-abstinence sex education programme used in many Croatian schools is legally acceptable, the European Committee for Social Rights (ECSR) has found . . . Hailing the decision, Roger Kiska, a legal counsel at the Alliance Defense Fund, an alliance of Christian attorneys, said ‘we are pleased that the European Committee for Social Rights has upheld the right for parents to choose an option that does not violate [their] core religious and moral beliefs.’ ‘Parents should be the ones responsible for making educational choices for their children – not leftist activist groups,’ added Kiska, who represented the organisation which drafted Croatia’s curriculum in the case.”

LifeSiteNews: “The body that polices compliance with the European Social Charter, a human rights document binding on all states within the Council of Europe, has deemed a pro-abstinence sex education program used in many Croatian schools to be acceptable. Alliance Defense Fund Legal Counsel Roger Kiska represented the organization that produced the curriculum, which provided his briefs to the government of Croatia to aid in its defense of the program, preferred by the vast majority of Croatian families over a radically leftist option. ‘Parents should be the ones responsible for making educational choices for their children – not leftist activist groups,’ said Kriska. ‘We are pleased that the European Committee for Social Rights has upheld the right for parents to choose an option that does not violate the core religious and moral beliefs of these families.’”

OneNewsNow: “‘It’s defined throughout the code — spouse as between a man and a woman,’ [Kiska] explains. ‘It forbids these backdoor, so-called same-sex “marriages” where Romanian citizens or foreigners come into the country and ask that their marriage be recognized by the country. It also does the same with civil unions.’”

Hilary White reports at LifeSiteNews: “‘This case could be the Roe v. Wade of Europe, so its importance should not be underestimated,’ said Roger Kiska of the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF), the public-interest legal alliance that is acting to protect the existing law.”

“‘No one should be allowed to decide that an innocent life is worthless. Ireland’s constitutional amendment defending innocent life is under attack, and now the stakes have just gotten higher,’ [Kiska] said. ‘With the case moving to the Grand Chamber, the ramifications of the decision that is eventually reached in the case are massive.’”

“ADF attorneys defending legal protections for pre-born children in Ireland at the European Court of Human Rights say the importance of the case has grown exponentially . . . ”

The Christian Institute: “ADF lawyer Roger Kiska said: ‘It’s pretty clear that states are not allowed to indoctrinate their children, and that parents have the ultimate right in raising their child according to their own religious and philosophical convictions.’”

“‘Parents, not the government, are the ones ultimately responsible for making educational choices for their children,’ Kiska said. ‘These parents were well within their rights under the European Convention of Human Rights to opt to teach their children a view of sexuality that is in accord with their own religious beliefs . . .

The two parents were convicted under German law when they chose to educate their child at home on the subject of sexuality rather than allow her to participate in a four-day “sexual education” course . . . in conflict with the family’s Christian faith.

WorldNetDaily: “‘Americans should not imagine that this type of government speech control only occurs overseas,’ Kiska noted. ‘ADF fights these types of battles in the U.S. all the time. But if the Constitutional Court in the Slovak Republic rules this police intervention legal, it will be yet another ruling that activist judges could point to in the future as a sort of precedent that U.S. courts should follow.’”

Christian Telegraph: “Christians and other pro-life advocates should not be discriminated against and silenced for expressing their beliefs and making people aware of the truth,” said Europe-based ADF Legal Counsel Roger Kiska, co-counsel in the case. “Apparently, the police decided that they didn’t want people to be faced with the unexaggerated reality of what abortion looks like. The signs were completely legal and simply displayed various images of human atrocities, including what goes on behind closed doors in abortuaries around the world.” “Americans should not imagine that this type of government speech control only occurs overseas,” Kiska added. “ADF fights these types of battles in the U.S. all the time. But if the Constitutional Court in the Slovak Republic rules this police intervention legal, it will be yet another ruling that activist judges could point to in the future as a sort of precedent that U.S. courts should follow.”

ADF attorney Roger Kiska appeared on Reality Check Radio with Mike and Claire Monokian to discuss a pending case and the status of homeschooling in Germany.

The mp3 runs just over 11 minutes.

Christian Today: “‘They did a lot of research on the governing law in Europe as well as international law coming from the United Nations documents, and they determined that since this was so contrary to their faith and that it would do damage to their ability as parents to raise their children according to that faith, that they would teach their child at home on this issue and only this issue.’”

OneNewsNow: “‘The family, the Elscheidt family, believe that this was contrary to their faith,’ says Kiska. ‘They did a lot of research on the governing law in Europe as well as international law coming from the United Nations documents, and they determined that since this was so contrary to their faith and that it would do damage to their ability as parents to raise their children according to that faith, that they would teach their child at home on this issue and only this issue.’”

WorldNetDaily: “Alliance Defense Fund attorney Roger Kiska said such cases must be fought around the world ‘to keep bad decisions overseas from being relied upon by activists who attack parental rights in America.’”

WorldNetDaily: “‘Parents, not the government, are the ones ultimately responsible for making educational choices for their children,’ Kiska said. ‘These parents were well within their rights under the European Convention of Human Rights to opt to teach their children a view of sexuality that is in accordance with their own religious beliefs instead of sending them to a class and stageplay they found objectionable. ‘These types of cases are crucial battles in the effort to keep bad decisions overseas from being relied upon by activists who attack parental rights in America,’ he said.”

“Parents, not the government, are the ones ultimately responsible for making educational choices for their children,” said ADF Legal Counsel Roger Kiska.

The two parents were convicted under German law when they chose to educate their child at home on the subject of sexuality rather than allow her to participate in a four-day “sexual education” course and related stage production at her school, both of which taught views of sexuality in conflict with the family’s Christian faith.

Pro-Life Philippines Foundation: “Alliance Defense Fund lawyer Roger Kiska told reporters that the law creates a category of rights far broader than any currently in force in the various nations of the EU. It also conflicts with Article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which guaranties freedom of thought, conscience and religion.”

LifeSite: Roger Kiska, an attorney with the Alliance Defense Fund and a close observer of the progress of the Serbian legislation, told C-Fam’s Friday Fax that the law creates a category of rights far broader than any currently in force in the various nations of the EU. It also conflicts with Article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which guarantees freedom of thought, conscience and religion.

If this law passes, Serbia will diminish the rights of Christians to express their moral beliefs in the name of defending special ‘rights’ for people engaged in homosexual behavior. That’s not a precedent we want U.S. courts to start citing . . .

New ADF effort will coordinate religious liberty litigation across Europe

A dissenting synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church that had its legal personality stripped and its property seized by the socialist government of Bulgaria has won a decisive victory at the European Court of Human Rights.

ADF submitted a legal memo to the EU urging it to vote against a resolution introduced by a communist. The resolution promotes same-sex “partnerships,” abortion, and censorship of moral expressions on homosexual behavior.

The Alliance Defense Fund is mobilizing efforts to judicially challenge a Luxembourg assisted suicide law if passed by the country’s parliament. ADF-allied attorneys are willing to offer pro bono legal assistance to physicians willing to bring suit regarding the constitutionality of the law in the wake of efforts to strip the grand duke of his ability to enact or veto legislation in that country.