With strategically placed offices throughout the world, Alliance Defending Freedom is at the forefront of the international legal battle for religious freedom. Along with hundreds of allies, we are engaging in legal advocacy before national and international institutions and courts, including the European Court of Human Rights, the European Parliament, and the United Nations. 

God has made His call clear

ADF began international work on a small scale in 2009. At that time, a number of our friends caught the vision and responded. But the need is growing!

God has opened doors for us that only He could open. He has granted us favor with leaders and judges in the most influential organizations and courts internationally. Since we became active in international work, ADF has quickly become a leader for defending faith and freedom. 

Until now, no Christian legal organization has had the capacity to effectively challenge opponents to faith and freedom in the international legal system. ADF is making a difference.

These victories are just the beginning

Thanks be to God, our international efforts have helped secure more than 800 victories for religious freedom, including 21 at the highly influential European Court of Human Rights. Among them: 

• Overturning “hate speech” convictions for pastors in Sweden and Canada who were teaching from Scripture on homosexual behavior.
• Helping to preserve the sanctity of life in Ireland — and for all of Europe (47 nations!) — when the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the European Convention of Human Rights does not contain a right to abortion.
• Obtaining, through our allied partners working in conjunction with public prosecutors, the very first criminal convictions against the perpetrators of the killing of Christians in the state of Odisha, formerly known as Orissa, in India.
• And more!