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Will Congress Resolve to Hold Nigeria Accountable for Widespread Religious-Based Violence and Oppression? Human rights activists are mobilizing Americans to urge their representatives to support an important resolution for Nigeria. H.Res.82 sponsored by human rights champion Rep. Chris Smith of New Jersey, is expected to come up soon for a vote in Congress. If passed, the resolution would express the sense of Congress on “the need to designate Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC) for engaging in and tolerating systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of religious freedom” in direct opposition to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken. In January, Blinken went against the advice of the bipartisan, independent U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) to name Nigeria among those countries worthy of sanctions and other punitive measures for its failure to reign in religious-based violence according to the mandate of the International Religious Freedom Act (IRF Act) of 1998. A growing coalition of religious rights advocates in and out of government hopes the House will take up and pass H.Res.82 before Congress breaks in June, but opposition in Congress and other considerations may derail it. In this STPC webinarour experts explain why Nigeria should be designated as a CPC, what hurdles stand in the way of the resolution, and what ordinary Americans can do to help get it passed. MODERATOR: - Frank Gaffney, President and CEO of Save the Persecuted Christians; Founder and Executive Chairman of the Center for Security Policy; Host of Securing America with Frank Gaffney on Real America’s Voice Network PANELISTS: - Eric Ueland, Visiting Fellow, The Heritage Foundation; former Acting Undersecretary of the U.S. Department of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights; Served in the Trump White House as Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs) – Topic: “What is USIRF’s response to Sec. Blinken’s failure to designate Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern, and how would that designation help the victims?” - Doug Burton,Editor,Truth Nigeria(TruthNigeria.com), award-winning investigative reporter and former staffer atThe Washington Times; leading expert on the persecution of Christians in Nigeria; former staffer at U.S. State Department in Iraq) – Topic: “What have TruthNigeria’s investigators revealed about religious and ethnic-based violence and oppression in Nigeria? What’s driving the violence and who are the victims? - Rev. Ihyula Remigius,Catholic Diocese of Makurdi Director of the Foundation of Justice and Peace in Benue State; acts as a first responder for reporting on attacks in Benue) – Topic: “A case study: Tracking Violence in Benue” - Dr. Gloria Puldu,President, The Leah Foundation) – Topic: “Nigerians want and need Americans to speak for thousands of voiceless victims” - Hon. Robert Destro,Former Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor; Professor of Law at Columbus School of Law; Founder of the Interdisciplinary Program in Law & Religion at Catholic University) – Topic: “How ordinary people can urge their congressional representatives to support H. Res. 82”

In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) is preparing to vote on two treaties that will give them the power of global governance, to the detriment of our nation's sovereignty and the personal medical freedom of every American. With the passage of these two treaties, the Pandemic Preparedness and Prevention Treaty, and amendments to the International Health Regulations, at the 77th annual World Health Assembly meeting in Geneva beginning May 27th, a far-left, progressive, anti-human worldview called “One Health” will become institutionalized, and the world will never be the same. One Health is not a benign approach to healthcare. It is a dangerous global-elite ideology that many believe will ultimately be used to justify the planet's depopulation. It is an unprecedented, anti-Christian attempt to equate human life with that of bugs, animals, plants, and the environment. In the Christian worldview, humans have been appointed by God as stewards of the earth, and all that is in it. To those who promote One Health, humans are the pandemic the world needs to be saved from. Americans remember well that during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic shutdown, only essential businesses were allowed to remain open. Churches and charities were locked up, but abortion clinics and liquor stores—deemed essential—stayed open. In fact, the government was serious about curtailing attendance at worship services. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) used location data from millions of citizens’ phones to spy on us to determine whether people were staying home or breaking the rules to attend church. The Biden administration and its agencies, following guidance from the WHO, vilified and censored millions of Americans and refused religious-based objections to the vaccine, causing many the loss of jobs and harm to their reputations. If the WHO is successful in its bid for global governance, Americans will face a new form of tyranny in which all of the failed policies experienced during COVID will be solidified under the control of the director general of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, an ally of the Chinese Communist Party and global elites at the World Economic Forum who aim to crush American sovereignty and imprison the world in a digital gulag, the likes of which we’ve only read about in the Book of Revelation. This STPC webinar discusses the dehumanizing, demoralizing, divisive public health emergency policies experienced by American Christians during the COVID pandemic, the elite’s One Health ideology, and the censorship, surveillance, and control that will come with reforms at the WHO. We consider what all of this means for people of faith in America, what’s at stake, and what we can do together to defeat this evil plan. MODERATOR: - Frank Gaffney, President and CEO of Save the Persecuted Christians; Founder and Executive Chairman of the Center for Security Policy; Host of Securing America with Frank Gaffney on Real America’s Voice Network PANELISTS: - Reggie Littlejohn, President and Founder, Women’s Rights Without Frontiers; Co-Sponsor, The Sovereignty Coalition; and Founder of the Anti-Globalist Alliance – Topic: “The Coming Digital Gulag and OneHealth, What’s at Stake with Reforms at the WHO” - Faith McDonnell, Director of Advocacy, Katartismos Global; DC fellow, American Association of Evangelicals; columnist/blogger, for the PATHEOS Evangelical Channel; and co-author “Girl Soldier: A Story of Hope for Northern Uganda's Children”– Topic: “The Global Elites Anti-Human Beliefs and their Ultimate Plan to “Save the Planet” through Depopulation” - Connie Elliott, Subject Matter Expert on totalitarians and how they secure and maintain power; Member, Committee on the Present Danger: China – Topic: “How Populations are Manipulated to Comply” - Dr. Karladine Graves, M.D., family physician, physician’s rights advocate – Topic: “How One Health Strips Dignity and Steals Dominion from Humanity” - Dede Laugesen, Executive Director, Save the Persecuted Christians – Topic: “American Christians Must Act Now to Preserve a Future of Hope and Freedom for Our Posterity”

Dede Laugesen's remarks at the STPC webinar "Raging Antisemitism and the Persecution of Christians Globally: Will Western Civilization Survive?" Thursday, Feb 15, 2024 Dede Laugesen is Executive Director of Save the Persecuted Christians; Executive Secretary of Committee on the Present Danger: China; Co-Author, “The Indictment: Prosecuting the Chinese Communist Party and Friends for Crimes Against America, China, and the World”

Will Western Civilization Survive? A civilizational crisis in the West is being manifested by a dramatic rise in antisemitism and Christian persecution in America and globally, reflecting a loss of faith in the West, extensive moral decline, war in Ukraine and Israel, and the growing influence of Marxism and Godless globalism that threaten all we hold dear. The next Save the Persecuted Christians (STPC) webinar, “Raging Antisemitism and the Persecution of Christians Globally: Will Western Civilization Survive?” will examine on Thursday, February 15 from 4:30-5:45 pm ET the causes and consequences of rising religious persecution and antisemitism in the West and the consequences for Western nations when politics and lack of moral courage subvert religious freedom to the detriment of human rights and liberty. MODERATOR: - Frank Gaffney, President and CEO of Save the Persecuted Christians; Founder and Executive Chairman of the Center for Security Policy; Host of Securing America with Frank Gaffney on Real America’s Voice Network PANELISTS: - Hon. Robert Destro, Professor of Law at Catholic University’s Columbus School of Law; former Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL); former commissioner for the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) — TOPIC: “What Does the Rise in Antisemitism and anti-Christian Persecution Reveal about the Strength of Western Civilization?” - Rev. Kevin Jessip, President, Global Strategic Alliance, Co-Founder, The Return, and Board Member of Save the Persecuted Christians — TOPIC: “The Last Days—Gaza and Hamas—Will Messiah Be Revealed Through the War in Gaza?” - Douglas Burton, Editor, Truth Nigeria (TruthNigeria.com), award-winning investigative reporter and former staffer at The Washington Times; leading expert on the persecution of Christians in Nigeria; former staffer at U.S. State Department in Iraq — TOPIC: “Democracy at Risk: The Battle for Sharia-Supremacy in Nigeria, Corruption, and the Genocide of Christians is a Microcosm of the General Decline of Western Civilization” - Lauren Homer, Esq., Founder & President, Law and Liberty Trust ; lawyer and longtime religious freedom advocate, focused on laws and policies affecting religious organizations and faith-based NGO’s in many countries, including Russia and former Soviet republics —TOPIC: “Vladimir Putin does not want to save Western civilization. His aim is to destroy it” - Dede Laugesen, Executive Director, Save the Persecuted Christians; Executive Secretary, Committee on the Present Danger: China; Co-Author, “The Indictment: Prosecuting the Chinese Communist Party and Friends for Crimes Against America, China, and the World” — TOPIC: “Warning! America’s Moral Compass Has Lost True North, the Ship is Lost at Sea”

Speaking to GB News, the author of Communist China’s War Inside America said: “I think it’s time for people in the West to wake up to the fact that Communist China is not all about trade and and manufacturing goods that we all consume, especially on what we in America call Black Friday where everyone is going out shopping. “The communist China really is about reorganising the world along different lines than it currently is.” In response to “the threat”, the president of American Strategy Group, said that Biden has “weakened the US military.” He explained: “I think Communist China’s been exploiting their personal relationship with Joe Biden. “I mean, if you believe Communist China is a threat, what would you do? You take steps to rebuild the American military. “You would decouple the US economy from Communist China, and you would at minimum do everything in your power to rebuild the manufacturing base in the United States so that you you wouldn’t need to rely on communist China. “Instead, Biden has done the exact opposite. “He has at every turn weaken the US military and he has done so much to destroy the US economy when it comes to manufacturing because he thinks the the central priority is environmental policy and global warming.” Kennedy also urged the West to “rebuild its capacity to wage war against China” or “suffer the consequences”. “They mean to be the masters of the world not just the United States and not just the West. “And so you’re seeing a major confrontation beginning. I mean colleagues of mine have thought this is the start of the third World War. “We’re in the early years of it, and now it’s playing out. “And either the West wakes up to that fact and rebuilds its capacity to wage war against such a threat or it will suffer the consequences.”

Do Nigerian women and children, ravaged by terrorists, matter to the world? U.S. and international authorities wavering in their support for Israel following the infamous October 7 Islamic terrorism have long ignored similar jihad violence plaguing Africa’s largest nation by population, Nigeria. Nigerian woman, Rhoda Jatau, is still in jail 18 months after posting to social media in protest of the stoning death of a young female student accused of blasphemy by her peers and letters written to Nigerian authorities by multiple U.N. rapporteurs about her case have gone unanswered. Meanwhile, recent groundbreaking reports by TruthNigeria show Islamic terrorists are using mass rape and sex-slavery to terrorize indigenous Christian farming communities and force them from their lands. Thousands of Nigerian women and girls held captive by jihadists are still missing, tens of thousands have been widowed and orphaned, and millions more—by some estimates between 4-6 million—are starving and left languishing without help from their government or others who deny the crisis has grown to such extremes. Similar to terrorist attacks in Israel that earned immediate international attention, attacks in Nigeria are well-armed, heavily manned, and religiously motivated. They involve mass killings, beheadings and slaughter, rapes, and hostage-taking. The victims are men, women, and children including the elderly and infants. The motive of the perpetrators, Muslim Fulani militants, is to occupy lands that don’t belong to them. They aim to force indigenous Christian farmers into exile so the Fulani can occupy the abandoned farms, homes and villages with their families and fellow Muslims. Across the Middle Belt and northern states of Nigeria, hundreds of villages have been occupied, renamed, and inhabited by Muslim militant and foreign migrant populations without government resistance. The terrorists, who operate unhindered with impunity from a sympathetic Muslim-dominated government, are rarely engaged or pursued by security forces nor arrested for prosecution. Consequently, huge populations of helpless women at risk of rape, gang rape, sexual exploitation and enslavement compound Nigeria’s national dilemma and keep peace at bay. “The world’s population is growing in some places and declining in others. In Nigeria, it is exploding,” said Dede Laugesen, executive director of Save the Persecuted Christians. “It has been said that ‘the hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.’ These words of wisdom ought to guide the world’s response to the women and children who are victims of Nigeria’s silent slaughter.” With an estimated 225 million people, Nigeria is Africa’s largest nation by population and sixth in the world following India, China, and the United States at one, two and three respectively. With a land mass comparable to that of Texas, Nigeria has grown from 80 million in 1980 to an estimated 225 million in 2023. By 2050, Nigeria is expected to nearly double its current population and supplant the United States as the third largest nation by population in the world. This STPC webinar examines how continued international neglect of millions of vulnerable women and children in Nigeria, victimized by unrestrained Islamic terrorism, is having catastrophic impacts leading almost certainly to even more widespread unrest, radicalization and migration on the African continent to the detriment of the whole world, and what must be done now to correct that trajectory. MODERATOR: - Frank Gaffney, President and CEO of Save the Persecuted Christians; Founder and Executive Chairman of the Center for Security Policy; Host of Securing America with Frank Gaffney on Real America’s Voice Network PANELISTS: - Douglas Burton, Editor, TruthNigeria.com; a longtime correspondent for many outlets with a focus on international conflict resolution, terrorism, and religious freedom — TOPIC: “Ravaged by Jihadists: Victims Testify to Mass Rapes in Benue, Kidnapping for Sex Slavery in Kaduna, and the Real Story of the Stoning Death of Deborah” - Hulda Fahmi, Communications Associate, Jubilee Campaign; International Director, Set My People Free — TOPIC: “How Blasphemy Laws are Used to Persecute in Nigeria: Why a Social Media Post has Kept one Nigerian Woman Jailed for 18 Months” - Dr. Gloria Puldu Samdi, President, The Leah Foundation — TOPIC: ‘A Crisis for the World: Nigeria’s Forgotten Women are Mothers to Millions Starved of Hope” - Alheri Magaji, Co-founder, RADi Foundation; former researcher and gender specialist with the Center for Women Studies in North Cyprus — TOPIC: “Shattered Lives: Helping Women and Children Back Together When Everything Is Lost” - Judd Saul, Founder, Equipping the Persecuted; award-winning documentary filmmaker including: “Enemies Within the Church” (2021), “Unfair: Exposing the IRS” (2014) and “The Enemies Within” (2016); entrepreneur, missionary in Nigeria since 2011 — TOPIC: “Serving the Greatest Need: Mobilizing Support and Teaching Resilience” - Dede Laugesen, Executive Director for Save the Persecuted Christians (STPC) — TOPIC: “Loss of Lands, Livelihoods, and Liberty: Why Warfare on Women in Nigeria is a Nightmare for Africa and the World”

As the Spiritual and Temporal Battle Rages in Israel and the World Prepares for Escalation, Jews and Christians Shoulder the Burden in Solidarity Following Hamas terrorist attacks in southern Israel on October 7 that left more than 1,400 Israelis and others massacred, including babies, children and the elderly, Israel has declared war on Hamas with the stated intent of abolishing the Gaza-based terror network while pro-Palestinian protests erupt in American campuses and cities and at our foreign embassies in multiple countries with American troops targeted in Iraq by another Iranian proxy terrorist group in southern Lebanon, Hezbollah. “Save the Persecuted Christians has since our founding stood shoulder to shoulder with our persecuted Jewish brothers and sisters experiencing increasing levels of antisemitism throughout Europe and in America,” said executive director Dede Laugesen. “We are all one family, children of the Creator. Likewise, we are viciously hated and persecuted in a fallen world.” Save the Persecuted Christians has gathered a panel of experts to discuss what’s next and what can be done to stem the tide catalyzed by Hamas of radical antisemitism now being exposed to our horror in America. MODERATOR: - Frank Gaffney, President and CEO of Save the Persecuted Christians; Founder and Executive Chairman of the Center for Security Policy; Host of Securing America with Frank Gaffney on Real America’s Voice Network PANELISTS: - Rabbi Yaakov Menken, managing director of the Coalition for Jewish Values, founder of Project Genesis which pioneered online learning and outreach for Orthodox Jews, he is a longtime human rights and religious freedom advocate • TOPIC: “Antisemitism in America and the World Revealed for All to See” - Rabbi Pesach Wolicki, Orthodox Rabbi, promoter of Jewish-Christian relations, Executive Director, Host of the Shoulder to Shoulder podcast; lecturer and academic consultant for the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews • TOPIC: “The Battle Ahead for Public Opinion and the Need for American Voices” - Charmaine Hedding, President, The Shai Fund (based in Israel); Coordinator of rescue flights for Christians from Afghanistan; Coordinator of rescue flights for Americans out of Israel • TOPIC: “Fighting for Peace Abroad, and Now at Home in Israel” - Suzanne Grishman, Board Chair, Save the Persecuted Christians; Executive Director, The Nazarene Fund; Nazarene Fund has provided for the rescue flights from Afghanistan, and now Israel • TOPIC: “Mobilizing to Support the Holy Land of Israel and Addressing Antisemitism in America” - Rev. Kevin Jessip, President, Global Strategic Alliance; President, the Return International; Board Member, Save the Persecuted Christians • Topic: “The Ties that Bind: Why Christians Must Voice and Give Support to Israel”

Muslim-majority Azerbaijan is intentionally starving an estimated 120,000 Armenian Christians—including 30,000 children–in Nagorno-Karabakh, known to locals as the Republic of Artsakh. Since December, a purported environmental protest and now, since April, an official Azerbaijani military checkpoint has denied all access to and from the region across the only land corridor connecting it with Armenia. Electricity, internet, and international aid organization trucks delivering food, medicines, and hygiene supplies have been completely blocked. Children are dying and pregnant mothers are starving. As a result, “Azerbaijan, with Turkey’s backing, is really slowly strangling Nagorno-Karabakh,” according to the Honorable Sam Brownback, former ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom, who recently returned from a fact-finding mission to Armenia. “They’re working to make it unlivable so that the region’s Armenian-Christian population is forced to leave.” If the United States does not intervene added Brownback, “we will see again another ancient Christian population forced out of its homeland.” Majority-Christian Armenia is home to one of Christendom's most ancient faith communities. Armenians were subjected to Genocide by the Ottoman Turks in 1915-16 in modern day Turkey, and today in Artsakh, they are faced with yet another. The Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast—home to a 95 percent ethnically Armenian population—was established in 1923 within the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic. Amid the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 when Armenia and Azerbaijan gained independence. Territorial disputes between the two countries over Nagorno-Karabakh have continued well into the 21st century. In 1988, Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh began agitating for independence which led to the “First Nagorno-Karabakh War.” By 1993, Armenia controlled Nagorno-Karabakh and occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan’s geographic area. Then, in 1994, a ceasefire brokered by Russia known as the "Bishkek Protocol," left Nagorno-Karabakh de facto independent but still heavily reliant on close economic, political, and military ties with Armenia. The Bishkek Protocol remained in force until September 27, 2020, when Azerbaijan began incessant bombing of the Artsakh city of Stepanakert. The 44-day “Second Nagorno-Karabakh War” ended with a peace deal again brokered by Russia on November 9, 2020. In toll, more than seven thousand soldiers and civilians were killed. And Azerbaijan, with Turkey’s help, reclaimed most of the territory it lost two decades prior, leaving Armenia with only a portion of Karabakh. The agreement also established the Lachin corridor, a small strip of land to be monitored by Russian peacekeepers that would serve as a transit route connecting Armenia to Nagorno-Karabakh. The latest crisis began in December 2022 when alleged Azerbaijani environmental activists illegally occupied the Lachin corridor. The large mob blocking all traffic across the corridor was supposedly protesting mining operations in Nagorno-Karabakh, but were also reportedly backed by the Azerbaijani regime in Baku. In April, when the "environmental protest" concluded Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev put in place a military checkpoint continuing and strengthened the blockade purportedly to stop rebel forces coming and going. And, Russian peacekeepers have been unwilling or unable to secure and reopen the highway. “Azerbaijan,” reports Radio Free Asia, "has insisted that it can only allow supplies to reach Nagorno-Karabakh over a road from Agdam, the administrative center of Azerbaijan's Agdam district, one of seven districts adjacent to the breakaway region that Baku managed to take back under its control along with chunks of Nagorno-Karabakh in November 2020 after a 44-day war. “However, Nagorno-Karabakh's separatist government has rejected that offer, saying Azerbaijan's blockade of the Lachin Corridor is a violation of the Moscow-brokered 2020 cease-fire agreement that placed the 5-kilometer-wide strip of land under the control of Russian peacekeepers.” In May, European Council President Charles Michel mediated discussions between Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and said they made “clear progress” toward peace. Then, in late May, Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted a trilateral meeting with the two leaders to discuss the reopening of transportation links between Armenia and Azerbaijan, though no agreement was reached. And, in late June, after three days of U.S.-held talks, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken applauded “further progress” toward a peace agreement and said both sides showed a willingness to negotiate seriously. Still, Azerbaijan has ignored outside calls to lift its blockade, and Pashinyan has accused Baku of Genocide saying that war remains “very likely” as long as a peace deal is not signed. STPC President and CEO Frank Gaffney hosted Hon. Sam Bownback, Baronness Caroline Cox, Uzay Bulut, Dr. James Jacob Pursley, and Michael Yon to consider the current status of the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict, what a continued blockade portends for this ancient Christian community, and what can be done about it. MODERATOR: - Frank Gaffney, President and CEO of Save the Persecuted Christians; Founder and Executive Chairman of the Center for Security Policy; Host of Securing America with Frank Gaffney on Real America’s Voice Network PANELISTS: - Baroness Caroline Cox, founder, Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust (www.hart-uk.org); an internationally recognized champion for human rights; an independent member of the UK House of Lords, and former Deputy Speaker • Topic: “The impending Genocide of Armenian Christians in Artsakh.” - Uzay Bulut, a Turkish journalist formerly based in Ankara; a PHD candidate in international studies and a research fellow of the Philos Project; she is currently based in Athens • Topic:“What are Azerbaijan and Turkey’s genocidal goals towards Armenians of Artsakh?” - Michael Yon,Former Green Beret; experienced combat correspondent; author; photographer • Topic: “Investigating the movement of people out of Armenia and making friends on the ground” - Dr. James Jacob Pursley, Ph.D. ICS, A missionary in the Muslim world since 2002; He currently resides in Yerevan, Armenia; Church planter and academic dean of a missions school serving in the Turkic and Persian world; Since 2008, Dr. Pursley has been bringing Christian Turks, Kurds, and Armenians together and helps facilitate reconciliation over the Armenian Genocide; Dr. Pursley has been featured on the Charlie Kirk Show, One America News Network (OANN), Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) and other news outlets and documentaries regarding Azeri and Turkish aggressions against Armenia and the Republic of Artsakh. • Topic: “Who are the players and what’s behind the conflict over Artsakh?” - Honorable Ambassador Sam Brownback, Chairman, National Coalition for Religious Freedom, U.S. Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom (2018-2021); former Governor for the State of Kansas; former U.S. Senator; former Member of Congress • Topic: “What can Americans do to help stop a full-scale Genocide in Artsakh?

Expert Panel to Discuss How Human Trafficking is Used to Persecute, Terrorize and Suppress Christians All over America, people are flocking to see Angel Studio’s instant box office hit, Sound of Freedom, which has grossed over $150 million to date and blew away all other movie competitors. The film powerfully tells the story of two children approached by a woman purporting to be a talent recruiter for a modeling agency — but who was actually facilitating the kidnapping that feeds the trafficking of such children — and of the extraordinary efforts undertaken to get them home safely. This month, the film will expand to international markets. As it does so, Save the Persecuted Christians (STPC) is taking the opportunity to analyze how the heavy persecution of over 360 million Christians in a record number of countries worldwide feeds into human trafficking supply-chains — and how the open border and divisive anti-Christian policies of the Biden administration exacerbate such crimes against humanity. Around the world in countries like Nigeria, Sudan, Pakistan, and Egypt, Christian women and children are kidnapped for sexual enslavement and men and boys are killed outright or forcibly converted and molded into terrorists. Tens of millions are forced into slave labor within global supply chains, including hard labor in mines supporting the development of materials for renewable energy products and in factories manufacturing solar panels and other electronics. South of the U.S. border, cartels and gangs are growing rich and powerful from the enormous flow of people they traffic into America. The Church is violently suppressed by these lawless groups, with attacks on clergy as well as congregants further contributing to the mass migration and the highly profitable enslavement of those fleeing northward. Meanwhile, anti-Christian persecution no longer stops at the border. In America, followers of Jesus are being increasingly marginalized by government officials, the media and political operatives who defame them as “intolerant,” “racists” and “domestic extremists” for their opposition to President Biden’s “fundamental transformation” of this country. MODERATOR: - Frank Gaffney, President and CEO of Save the Persecuted Christians; Founder and Executive Chairman of the Center for Security Policy; Host of Securing America with Frank Gaffney on Real America’s Voice Network PANELISTS: - Matthew Faraci, Co-founder at Angel Studios, Angel Acceleration Fund, VidAngel, Cove Topic: “God’s Children are Not for Sale: Telling the World About the Global Crisis of Human Trafficking” - Jason Jones, Founder and President of the Human-Rights Education and Relief Organization (H.E.R.O.) known for its two main programs The Vulnerable People Project and Movie to Movement; Executive Producer, “Bella,” (2006) and Associate Producer, “The Stoning of Soraya M” (2009) Topic: “Protecting Vulnerable Children — A Difficult Mission” - Faith McDonnell, Director of Advocacy, Katartismos Global; Co-Leader: Anglican Persecuted Church Network and the Global Anglican Fellowship Suffering Church Network; columnist/blogger, for the PATHEOS Evangelical Channel, and co-author “Girl Soldier: A Story of Hope for Northern Uganda’s Children,” 2007 Chosen Books Topic: “Historical Perspective of Child Trafficking and Persecution: Uncovering a Deep, Dark Evil” - Ben Bergquam, Border Correspondent for Real America’s Voice; Host, “Law and Border” Topic: “How Biden Border Policies are Enabling Modern Slavery in America” - Liz Yore, esq., president and founder, Yore Children, Vatican watchdog Topic: “The Vatican Cartel: Catholic Charities and Human Trafficking” - Dede Laugesen, Executive Director, Save the Persecuted Christians Topic: “Reclaiming Our Faith: How the Demoralization and ‘Othering’ of Christians in America Impacts Persecution and Trafficking”

U.S. State Department Silent on Brutal Religious-Based Abuse Experienced By Believers in Vietnam WASHINGTON, D.C.—In the past year, Christians in Vietnam have experienced a rapid escalation of repressive measures against those that resist government control. Of particular concern are the government’s intensifying efforts to force Christians to renounce their faith, crack down on house churches that do not submit themselves to government control, and coerce members of independent religious groups to join government-controlled religious organizations. A recent advocacy letter sent to Sec. Antony Blinken in advance of his trip to Vietnam, signed by Save the Persecuted Christians (STPC) and at least 70 other human rights activists and organizations, called on him to “directly raise concerns with the Vietnamese leadership about their government’s antagonistic policies toward religions that do not submit to government control.” ADF International reports, “The letter also calls for the release of multiple religious prisoners of conscience in Vietnam and for the Vietnamese government to amend laws that are used abusively towards religious minorities.” Organized by the Vietnamese-American advocacy group, Boat People SOS (BPSOS), with solidarity from former Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback and former Chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, Katrina Lantos-Swett, as well as hundreds of Vietnamese refugees who have fled Vietnam. “To date, no response has been received from the U.S. State Department,” said Dede Laugesen, executive director of Save the Persecuted Christians. “America’s first freedom under the Constitution upholds religious freedom for all. When American officials fail to hold foreign state perpetrators accountable for their human rights abuse and crimes against people of faith—as they are required to to by law—in deference to political alliances, we lose our moral authority, weaken religious freedom globally, and find ourselves in bed with some of the World’s worst perpetrators. By not calling them out and demanding resolution, we give tacit approval to violence towards Christians and other faith minorities.” During this webinar, our experts examine recent abuse of religious freedom in Vietnam, analyze the plight of those who yearn to worship Christ without fear of harm, and consider America’s response following Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s recent visit to strengthen alliances with the CCP-linked Communists in control. MODERATOR: - Frank Gaffney: President and CEO of Save the Persecuted Christians PANELISTS: - Dr. Trong Q. Phan, Co-Founder, Advocates for Faith and Justice in Vietnam • Topic – The Hidden Agenda of Communist Government Targeted Vietnamese Catholics - Dr. Thang D. Nguyễn, CEO and President, Boat People SOS (BPSOS) • Topic – Forced Renunciation and Conversion of Faith Targeting Hmong and Montagnard Christians - Faith McDonnell, Director of Advocacy, Katartismos Global • Topic – Vietnam: Decades of Abuse and Violations of Religious Freedom - John Prabhudoss, Chairman of the Federation of Indian American Christian Organizations (FIACONA) • Topic –What Are the Obligations of the U.S. State Department and other Agencies to Uphold, Promote, and Defend Religious Freedom as Foreign Policy? - Dede Laugesen, Executive Director, Save the Persecuted Christians; Executive Secretary, Committee on the Present Danger: China • Topic: Why Communists Insist on Controlling Christians and the Techniques Used in Vietnam to Marginalize and Oppress Believers

The country of Israel has been at war in some form or fashion for its entire existence. In fact, no country in the world has had to fight harder than Israel to survive. And now, with Iran soon to become a nuclear-armed country, tensions are at a historic high point. If Israel and Iran face-off, the whole world will quake. Israel is America’s most important ally in the Middle East. And, historically, the United States has been Israel’s most faithful defender. The two countries—and their friendship—are essential to the preservation of the West. Unfortunately, the Biden administration has displayed little concern for America’s special and longstanding relationship with Israel, choosing instead to side with Palestinian terrorists and progressive propagandists seeking the end of Israel, Western Civilization, and the United States. This special STPC webinar discusses rising antisemitism globally, waning U.S. support for Israel, and why American Christians must care for and defend our Jewish brothers and sisters in Jerusalem like never before. Producer: - Dede Laugesen: Executive Director, Save The Persecuted Christians Moderator: - Frank J. Gaffney, executive chairman for the Center for Security Policy; host of Securing America with Frank Gaffney on Real America’s Voice Network; vice-chair for the Committee on the Present Danger: China; and President for Save the Persecuted Christians Panelists: - Rev. Kevin Jessip, President, Global Strategic Alliance; President, the Return International; Board Member, Save the Persecuted Christians — Topic: Israel and America in Biblical History & Prophecy - Honorable Robert Ilatov, Former Member of the Knesset, Served as Knesset chairman of the commission on economics, chairman of the subcommittee for supporting and developing knowledge-intensive industries, chairman of the Christian Allies Caucus, and visionary of public project Negev Hi-Tech—Topic: Significant and Growing Challenges Facing Israel Today - Bill Koenig; Independent journalist; publisher, Koenig – World Watch Daily; White House Correspondent; author, Eye to Eye – Facing the Consequences of Dividing Israel—Topic: Why Israeli Land Disputes Matter - Ann Schockett, Immediate former president, National Federation of Republican Women; Board Member, Save the Persecuted Christians—Topic: The Crux of the Matter–US-Israel Relations in Good Times and Bad - Rabbi Pesach Wolicki, Orthodox Rabbi, promoter of Jewish-Christian relations, executive director of the Center for Jewish-Christian Understanding and Cooperation, lecturer and academic consultant for the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews—Topic: Antisemitism and Christian Persecution – The Ties that Bind

Expert Panel to Expose Ongoing Violence Towards Christians and Christian Communities Under Prime Minister Modi’s Regime India is home to an estimated 30 million Christians according to a recent report from the Federation of Indian American Christian Organizations of North America (FIACONA), making it the third largest religion in this important country in South Asia with a population of 1.4 billion as of 2021. In 2022, FIACONA reports 1198 verified attacks against Christians, but notes thousands of other acts of violence have gone unreported due to the current Hindu Nationalist (Hindutva) political environment. India is a Sovereign Socialist Secular Democratic Republic with a Parliamentary form of government which is federal in structure with unitary features. There is a Council of Ministers with the Prime Minster as its head who advises the President, who is the constitutional head of the country. Since 2014, under the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and its leader, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, violence against Christians and other non-majority religions has been steadily increasing. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is the political arm of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), an extremist Hindu nationalist, paramilitary, volunteer organization in India. President Droupadi Murmu is also a member of the BJP. The Indian constitution provides for freedom of conscience and the right of all individuals to freely profess, practice, and propagate religion; mandates a secular state; requires the state to treat all religions impartially; and prohibits discrimination based on religion. Reports FIACONA: In the West, India is known as the land of yoga. It is associated with Mahatma Gandhi and nonviolence. But, in reality, India is changing rapidly. The recent increase in violence against Indian Christians in India is attributed to the rise of Hindu nationalism, popularly known as “Hindutva.” This ideology follows beliefs akin to Nationalsozialismus (Nazism). Like the SS, the parent organization of Hindutva ideology is known as the RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh). In fact, the RSS is modeled after the SS. This Hindu nationalist movement promotes a Hindu Rashtra (Hindu Nation) to the exclusion of non-Hindus. Like the Nazis, the Hindutva groups uses propaganda, false accusations, and terror tactics to promote religious hatred among the Hindus. The RSS uses every occasion and every development in the country to define and identify non-Hindus as the “other”. In 1948, Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated by former members of the RSS for refusing to agree with the RSS ideology. Shockingly, the RSS celebrates Gandhi’s assassin as a hero of an India they envision. BJP propaganda and policies significantly contribute to the oppression and persecution of Christians and other faith groups. BJP-based governments and agencies routinely do not prosecute acts of violence against Christians and instead harass and prosecute minority faith-based institutions and individuals based on false and erroneous reports of alleged violations. Meanwhile, the United States Department of State continues to ignore credible reports of significant religious-based human rights abuse in India in its ongoing refusal to designate India as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC) as they are legally required to do under the provisions of the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA) due to severe violations of religious freedom. Prime Minister Modi is expected to visit President Joe Biden at the U.S. White House this spring. Producer: - Dede Laugesen: Executive Director, Save The Persecuted Christians Moderator: - Frank Gaffney: President and CEO, Save the Persecuted Christians; Executive Chairman, Center for Security Policy; Vice-Chair, Committee on the Present Danger: China Panelists: - John Prabhudoss, Chairman, Federation of Indian American Organizations of North America Topic: Finding of the 2nd annual FIACONA report on Christian persecution in India - Pastor Bryan Nerren, International House of Prayer in Shelbyville, TN; Detained in India for 7-months in 2019-2022 Topic: Personal testimony from a U.S. pastor unjustly detained in India - Pastor Greg Young, oversees 500 house churches, a Bible School and an orphanage in Punjab India; Host of nationally syndicated radio show, Chosen Generation Topic: Punjab’s Christians targeted by Sikhs intent on their exile or extermination - Dede Laugesen, Executive Director, Save the Persecuted Christians Topic: The inconvenient truth of Christian persecution in India routinely ignored by the U.S.A.

A statement by Dede Laugesen, executive director of Save the Persecuted Christians, on the occasion of the 5th anniversary, February 19, 2023, of the Northeast Nigeria Dapchi schoolchildren kidnapping which led to the enslavement by ISWAP terrorists of then 14-year-old, Christian student, Leah Sharibu

Expert Panel on Turkey’s Killing Spree Threatening the Survival of Christians and Other Vulnerable NE Syrian Communities In just five days in November, Turkey attacked the Autonomous Administration of Northeast Syria (AANES) over 2,500 times and has announced plans for a ground assault leading many human rights organizations to question whether Turkey’s actions are genocidal. Forty-eight people have been killed, scores wounded, and 2,300 civilian buildings, homes, and infrastructure sites have been hit. Turkey’s relentless attacks and invasions since AANES joined the US led Coalition in defeating ISIS in 2018 have killed and wounded thousands and displaced hundreds of thousands of civilians—replacing religious freedom and peace with Islamist rule and constant chaos in territory it seized. Turkey acts based on their (disproved) claims that AANES presents a national security threat to Turkey. In reality, it is trying to finish the job ISIS started and annihilate religious and ethnic minorities: Christians (Syriacs, Armenians and Assyrians), Yazidis, and Kurds. From November 20-25), Turkey unleashed at least 2,500 attacks (air, mortar, drone, artillery, etc.) on AANES. The targets were overwhelmingly civilian private property (2,332), followed by public infrastructure (94), and military facilities (72). Turkey destroyed a children’s hospital, a health center, an electric power station, essential oil and gas processing facilities, critical grain silos, and a major bakery. Turkey appears focused on depriving the civilian population of food, heat, and water as winter sets in. It even dropped bombs on tent camps housing survivors of its earlier invasions. The SDF was the primary fighting force against ISIS when it had US air support, but it has no aircraft or anti-aircraft weapons to defend against Turkey’s assaults, which often use US supplied F-16’s to attack. Attacks and deaths continue daily. Both Genocide Watch and the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention have issued a “Red Alert” Genocide Warning noting: “These military attacks by Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s regime are part of a wider Turkish policy of annihilation of the Kurdish and Assyrian people in northern Syria and Iraq” and its genocidal policy towards these groups (which dates back over 100 years). The US government has publicly and privately demanded that Turkey stop but Turkey continues to say it will invade and take over a 30-mile territory along its border with Syria that will eliminate most minority population centers and cause hundreds of thousands to flee or face death and destruction. Join an expert panel discussion on the conflict and evidence of Turkey’s genocidal actions against Christians, Yazidis, Kurds, and other ethno-religious minorities of northeast Syria, and what the US and international community should do to stop Turkey. Moderator: - Frank Gaffney: President and CEO, Save the Persecuted Christians; Executive Chairman, Center for Security Policy; Vice-Chair, Committee on the Present Danger: China Panelists: - Nadine Maenza: President, IRF Secretariat; former Chair (2021) and Vice-Chair (2019) of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) – Topic: AANES unique democracy and importance in protecting and empowering minorities - Lauren Homer: Attorney and President, Law and Liberty Trust (LawandLiberty); Co-Chair Middle East Working Group IRF Roundtable – Topic: Turkey’s threats to religious freedom, minorities, and US foreign policy priorities in the region - Charmaine Hedding: President, The Shai Fund (ShaiFund) – Topic: The resilience of the AANES following the defeat of ISIS and humanitarian needs to help minorities survive. - Kino Gabriel: Research consultant for the Syriac Strategic Research Center; former Military Command and Military Spokesperson for the Syriac Military Council and Syrian Democratic Forces and former Member of the Legislative Council, Democratic Self-Administration, Jazira Canton – Topic: The long struggle for freedom against ISIS and Turkey’s efforts to impose Islamist rule on Christians and other minorities - Gregory Stanton: President and Chairman, Genocide Watch (Genocide Watch); former research professor in genocide studies and prevention at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University (2010-2019); James Farmer Professor in Human Rights at the University of Mary Washington (2003-2009); – Topic: Genocide Emergency – Turkey’s Aggression in Syria

U.S. and Communist China’s Play for Power in Nigeria puts Christians At Risk. Leaders from all over Africa will gather at the U.S. State Department in Washington, D.C. December 13-15 at the invitation of the White House for the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit to, “build on our shared values to better: Foster new economic engagement; Advance peace, security, and good governance; Reinforce commitment to democracy, human rights, and civil society; Work collaboratively to strengthen regional and global health security; Promote food security; Respond to the climate crisis; Amplify diaspora ties; Promote education and youth leadership.” In advance of the Summit, Save the Persecuted Christians experts invite members of the press and public to a webinar Thursday, Nov. 17 at 4:30 pm ET to examine geopolitical pressure points subverting human rights and religious freedom in Nigeria. Last November before traveling to Africa, Secretary of State Antony Blinken unexpectedly and without explanation or justification removed Nigeria from the U.S. State Department’s list of “countries of particular concern” which designates nations guilty of particularly severe violations of religious freedom under the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA) of 1998. Human rights advocates decried the shocking reversal as a political deal meant to counter growing Chinese influence and improve U.S. relations with the Buhari regime. “What’s missing from the agenda is a firm commitment to address ongoing, extreme, religious-based violence and terrorism in Nigeria and elsewhere in Africa’s Sahel, where Muslim bandit gangs and Fulani terrorist have killed thousands of mostly Christian farmers this year,” said Dede Laugesen, executive director for Save the Persecuted Christians. “It is clear that victims of religious violence have become pawns in a political power struggle between the U.S. and China for influence in Africa. “We expect dubious climate concerns, deals for oil, and other geopolitical issues will suppress and overshadow any action on these critical concerns. The United States must insist Nigerian leaders restore stability and security. We must hold the Buhari regime accountable for allowing religious violence to rage across the land. And, Congress must investigate where hundreds of millions of U.S. aid intended to support the military’s anti-terrorism efforts and assist millions of internally displaced people reportedly languishing in open-air camps without Nigerian federal government assistance has gone. The result of Nigeria’s religious insecurity is loss of opportunity, extreme poverty, unemployment, and the radicalization of the nation’s youth. Failure to address these root issues will only serve to frustrate Nigeria’s dream to maximize its potential on the world stage and invite Communist China—the world’s worst human rights abuser—to manifest its malevolent agenda in Africa.” Moderator: - Frank Gaffney: President and CEO, Save the Persecuted Christians; Executive Chairman, Center for Security Policy; Vice-Chair, Committee on the Present Danger: China Panelists: - Dr. Sayo Ajiboye: Founder & President, Mission Africa International (MissionAfricaInternational.org) – Topic: “Geopolitical Games are Subverting the Cause for Persecuted Christians in Nigeria” - Rev. Polycarp Gbaja: Chairman, Stride Leadership Foundation Abuja Nigeria; Senior Pastor, TheStrongHouse Abuja – Topic: “Religious violence or ‘Farmer Herder Disputes’ –What’s Behind Nigeria’s Endless Violence?” - Douglas Burton: Independent journalist; Mentor, Rural Watch Nigeria; Contributor, The Epoch Times; Contributor: Catholic News Agency (CAN) – Topic: “When Terror Stikes, America and its Allies are Mute” - Se Hoon Kim: Director, Captive Nations Coalition of the Committee on the Present Danger: China (CaptiveNations.org) – Topic: “The CCP’s New Imperialism Raping Africa’s Resources and Polluting its Lands” - Faith McDonnell: Director of Advocacy, Kartartismos Global (KGIGlobal.org) – Topic: “Willful Blindness in Nigeria: U.S. and C.C.P. Politics, Greed, and Corruption Result in Calculated Disregard for Christian Genocide” - Dede Laugesen: Executive Director, Save the Persecuted Christians; Executive Secretary, Committee on the Present Danger: China – Topic: “What Must be Done to Counter the CCP in Africa while Upholding America’s Legal Commitment to Promote and Defend Religious Freedom”

Expert Panel Discusses Iranian Women Who Demand Freedom while Western Politicians, Feminists, and Media Ignore their Plight ----- Mahsa Amini, 22, was beaten to death last month in Iran while in the custody of the “morality” police for wearing an improper head covering. She was killed for having too much hair showing from under her scarf. Amini’s death sparked mass anti-government protests, the largest since 2009, led mostly by young women in more than 100 cities and towns and even at Evin Prison, the notorious torture chamber for political dissidents, allegedly set on fire last week by protestors within its walls. After 43 years of brutal oppression the people of Iran say, “Enough is enough!” Chanting “Death to Khomeini,” these brave women–and the men standing with them–demand an end to the Islamic regime in power since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. “This is a moment of incredible courage on the part of Iran’s young women,” said Dede Laugesen, executive director for Save the Persecuted Christians. “One would think women everywhere would take up their cause to stand with them in solidarity. Instead, politicians, the media, and Western feminists have mostly ignored the protests.” This STPC webinar examines the protests, the women of Iran, religious oppression, and the world’s anemic response with a panel of human rights activists and experts. Moderator: - Frank Gaffney, President & CEO, Save the Persecuted Christians Panelists: - Lela Gilbert, Senior Fellow for International Religious Freedom and Coalitions Coordinator at Family Research Council (FRC), Co-Author, with Gen. Jerry Boykin and Arielle Del Turco: Heroic Faith: Hope Amid Global Persecution (2022) and Author, Baroness Cox: Eyewitness to a Broken World, 2nd Edition (2021).– Topic: Iran’s women and 300 Iranian Christians Declare Opposition to the Islamic Republic’s Abusive Regime - Charmaine Hedding, President, The Shai Fund (ShaiFund) – Topic: - Juliana Taimoorazy, President, Iraqi Christian Relief Council (ICRC), Nobel Peace Prize Nominee – Topic: - Lauren Homer, President, Homer International Law, and Law & Liberty International (Hill.US.com)– Topic: Iran Needs a Secular Inclusive Government - Faith McDonnell, Director of Advocacy, Katartismos Global; Co-Leader: Anglican Persecuted Church Network and the Global Anglican Fellowship Suffering Church Network; columnist/blogger, for the PATHEOS Evangelical Channel, and co-author “Girl Soldier: A Story of Hope for Northern Uganda’s Children,” 2007 Chosen Books – Topic: Generations of Courage and Faith in Iran

Taiwan’s Christians have long enjoyed the fruits of democracy and a government that is tolerant of various religious beliefs including Christianity. In fact, though Christians make up only 4% of the population, several of Taiwan’s presidents have been Christian. For decades, Taiwan has been a source of support for Christians fleeing the Chinese mainland due to horrific abuse and suppression. Last month, Chinese diplomat Lu Shaye said when China takes Taiwan, re-education will follow. One only needs to study the plight of Uyghurs of Xinjiang to understand the threat. China is busy subjecting the Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities to genocide and massive, statewide, 24-hour surveillance. Effectively, the entire region is enslaved and slated for extermination. An estimated 3 million Uyghurs have been subjected to forced labor and re-education in centers that many refer to as modern day concentration camps. Their children have been stripped from them and placed in state-run orphanages where they are fed Communist propaganda non-stop. Frank J. Gaffney, a former top Pentagon official in the Reagan administration and president and CEO of Save the Persecuted Christians, told The Washington Times that because the Chinese only permit a rewritten religion that venerates current President Xi Jinping, traditional Christians in Taiwan would be specifically targeted. “It’s going to be a special level of horror or persecution or privation that will be inflicted upon the people of Taiwan who happen to believe in Jesus Christ,” he said. He predicted Chinese communists would “enslave” the population of Taiwan if a takeover occurred. Moderator: - Dede Laugesen: Executive Director, Save the Persecuted Christians; Executive Secretary, Committee on the Present Danger: China Panelists: - Se Hoon Kim, Director of the Captive Nations Coalition for the Committee on the Present Danger: China - Joyce Ho, Founder, Project Black Mask (Hong Kong) - Dr. Xiaoxu Sean Lin, PhD, Survivor of the Tiananmen Square massacre; former U.S. Army officer and Laboratory director of Viral Diseases Branch at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research; and Assistant Professor, Feitian College - Dede Laugesen: Executive Director, Save the Persecuted Christians; Executive Secretary, Committee on the Present Danger: China

America's Christians are combatting growing rhetoric from mainstream media and even U.S. agencies seeking to disparage their conservative views and paint them as "domestic terrorists." This "othering" of America's Christians is of grave concern to Save the Persecuted Christians. In too many countries worldwide, we have seen how the marginalization, discrimination, and harassment of people of faith eventually leads to violent persecution. When Christians, and other believers, are pushed from the public square, they become vulnerable to persecution—and that is precisely what is happening in America. In short, we must protect the right of Christians to believe, worship, and associate freely worldwide or risk losing the ability and moral courage to exercise our own constitutional right to religious freedom at home. America will cease to be what the Bible calls a “shining city on a hill,” playing its historical role of a beacon of freedom to the world and a guarantor of it here. Will American Christians become the world’s next victim of persecution? We allow this rhetoric to continue and build at our own peril. Moderator: - Frank Gaffney, president and CEO, Save the Persecuted Christians Panelists: - Charles “Sam” Faddis, Former CIA operations officer:‘Christian Nationalists’: Do You Have Item on the FBI’s List of Symbols for ‘Domestic Violent Extremists’? Most of Us Do - Trevor Loudon, Producer, “Enemies Within the Church”:Demonizing the Church from Within—with A Little Help from Known Communists - Jonathan Alexandre, Director of Government Affairs, Liberty Council:Purging Christians from Civic Life, Discourse, and the Public Square - Liz Yore, esq., President and founder, Yore Children: ‘Gun-toting’ Catholics Maligned byThe Atlanticas ‘Rosary Radicals,’ ‘Rad-Trads,’ and the ‘Church Militant’ - Pastor Jorge Parrott, President, Christ’s Mandate for Missions:Warnings for America from Countries Where Being a Christian Could Get You Killed

Save the Persecuted Christians hosted a panel of experts to discuss the deteriorating situation for Christians in Afghanistan and those who fled over the past year following the disastrous U.S. withdrawal from that country. As the Taliban continues to tighten the noose on religious minorities, what are Christians in Afghanistan experiencing? What’s still being done to help them, and what more could the USA do for those at most risk of religious persecution. Moderator: - Frank Gaffney, President & CEO of Save the Persecuted Christians Panelists: - Charmaine Hedding, President of the Shai Fund - Lauren Homer, President, Law and Liberty International - Suzanne Grishman, Executive Director, Mercury One and the Nazarene Fund, Board Member, Save the Persecuted Christians - Dede Laugesen, Executive Director of Save the Persecuted Christians

Join Save the Persecuted Christians on the eve of Pentecost to pray for the protection of Christians globally. In 2022, Open Doors USA, reports 360 million Christians are heavily persecuted in the 50 countries where it is most difficult to be a follower of Jesus. That is a 67% increase since 2018 when there were 215 million suffering for Christ. Nobody is talking about this historic persecution which is ramping up even in America. We will have coalition partners and victims of persecution leading prayers. Take two hours to pray with us!

Leah Sharibu is a courageous Christian teenager stolen from her family by radical Islamic extremists who have said they intend to keep her as a ‘slave for life.’ Taken with over 100 other female students in February, 2018, Leah alone was kept when the others were released. She was kept, said her captors, for refusing to renounce her faith in Jesus. She was just 14. Her classmates said when the gun-toting terrorists demanded to know “who here is Christian?” Leah’s arm would shoot up even as her classmates tried to pull it down. Nigeria and the world have been inspired by her heroic show of faith over fear. Nonetheless, as her 19th birthday approaches on May 14, Leah—like so many thousands of other Nigerian women and girls—languishes in captivity. Those who could rescue her, have not. Promises were made to the family by various members of the Nigerian government. None have been kept. They seem to have forgotten her. But, her family has not forgotten Leah and neither have we. Christian women and girls are among the most vulnerable and targeted population for Nigerian terrorists be they Boko Haram, ISWAP, Fulani Herdsmen, or so-called ‘Bandits.’ What more can be done to elevate the story of Leah and draw international attention to the religious-based violence and kidnappings plaguing Nigeria? Join us for an important conversation with Leah’s family, Dr. Gloria Puldu, president of the Leah Foundation, and others who have advocated for her return. HOST: - Dede Laugesen, executive director of Save the Persecuted Christians MODERATOR: - Frank Gaffney, president & CEO of Save the Persecuted Christians PANELISTS: - Dr. Gloria Puldu, president of The Leah Foundation - Rebecca Sharibu, mother of Leah - Brandon Showalter, reporter for Christian Post - Dr. Oluwasayo Ajiboye, president of Mission Africa International - Douglas Burton, contributor for The Epoch Times - Lawrence Zongo, founder of Rural Watch

An important discussion on Ukraine’s diverse faith communities imperiled by Russian forces and the sacred historic sites at risk as Putin carves a path of destruction through this ancient land. Moderator: Frank Gaffney, President & CEO of Save the Persecuted Christians Host: Dede Laugesen, Executive Director of Save the Persecuted Christians Panelists: The Honorable Sam Brownback, U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom from 2018 to 2021. Pastor Vitaly Dudukaloff from The Light Church (Svitlo Church) in Plesetske located 30 miles southwest of Kyiv. Lauren Homer, Esq., Founder & President, Law and Liberty International; Owner, Homer International Law PLLC at Law and Liberty International; Providing a focus on laws affecting NGO’s, faith-based, and religious organizations in many countries, including Russia and former Soviet republics. Rabbi Michael Schiffman, Executive Director of Chevra USA serving elderly Ukrainian Jews since 1993 Rev. Gregory Golyzniak, a Polish Pastor serving St. Peter’s Catholic Church of Monument, CO since 2013 and a PhD student in Sacred Architecture with an emphasis on the Gothic architecture of the 11th-17th centuries Oleg Atbashian, a Ukrainian born U.S. citizen whose parents are in central Ukraine. Founder and host of the satirical site PeoplesCube.com, Oleg is an author and artist who uses humor and ridicule to inform on life lived under the former Soviet Union

China’s Communist Party overlords are preparing to crackdown on Christians in Hong Kong. Recent articles published in CCP-controlled media have called out Catholic Cardinal Joseph Zen and Christian schools for promoting and supporting massive 2019-2020 extradition law protests. After breaking international treaties and asserting authority over the democratic autonomous region, Communist China passed the brutal and totalitarian “National Security Law for Hong Kong”. Now, one of the world’s foremost fearless Christian leaders has come under the microscope. What does this portend for the future of religious freedom in this desperate land? And, what does it portend for the whole world if Western leaders continue to cave to the rapacious demands of Communist China? Join us February 17th for an important panel discussion on these dangerous developments in Hong Kong. Reserve your spot today. Registration is required to attend. Host & Moderator: - Dede Laugesen, Executive Director for Save the Persecuted Christians, and Executive Secretary for the Committee on the Present Danger: China Panelists: - The Honorable Sam Brownback, former U.S. Ambassador for International Religious Freedom - Se Hoon Kim, Director of the Captive Nations Coalition for the Committee on the Present Danger: China - Nina Shea, Senior Fellow & Director of the Center for Religious Freedom at the Hudson Institute - Baggio Leung, former elected Member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (LegCo) - Benedict Rogers, Co-Founder and CEO of Hong Kong Watch, senior analyst for East Asia for CSW, and the co-founder and deputy chair of the U.K. Conservative Party Human Rights Commission