Today’s Martyrs

Resources for understanding current Christian witness and martyrdom

United States

Dr Albert Mohler (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, on December 31, 2014 denounced an upcoming front page Newsweek article that calls evangelicals and fundamentalists frauds, said "Newsweek's cover story is exactly what happens when a writer fueled by open antipathy to evangelical Christianity tries to throw every argument he can think of against the Bible and its authority. To put the matter plainly, no honest historian would recognize the portrait of Christian history presented in this essay as accurate and no credible journalist would recognize this screed as balanced"; on May 12, 2020 criticized New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson's condemnation of the Christian charity Samaritan’s Purse’s COVID-19 field hospital in Central Park: “Now, of all things, just notice what's not here. What's not here is any statement of thanks for an evangelical Christian ministry that not only expended funds but brought an army of volunteers and medical personnel who put themselves at risk on behalf of efforts to try to save New Yorkers in the midst of the pandemic...No one has been able to put any substance to the charge that Samaritan's Purse has ever discriminated when it comes to medical treatment on the basis of sexual orientation or anything else, that's not even alleged here. It is simply the fact that Samaritan's Purse dares to hold to historic biblical Christianity”; on November 18, 2020 denounced a proposal that the Biden administration end religious freedom initiatives at the State and Education Departments: "The Human Rights Campaign demands the Biden administration to ensure that 'non-discrimination policies and science- based curriculum are not undermined by religious exemption to accreditation standards...The Human Rights Campaign is not known for any particular agenda on the creation-evolution front, nor is the group preoccupied with particle physics. The Human Rights Campaign is targeting issues of sexual orientation and gender identity, cloaking them in the language of 'science.' This is an undisguised effort to require Christian schools and colleges to abandon biblical authority or lose accreditation...That is sinister. I’ve not seen any document like this before — the Human Rights Campaign is effectively calling for religious colleges and schools to be coerced into the sexual revolution or stripped of accreditation...In clear text, for all the world to see, the Human Rights Campaign summons the Biden administration to deny accreditation — or, at the very least, to facilitate the denial of accreditation — to Christian institutions, Christian colleges and universities, and, for that matter, any other religious institution or school that does not meet the demands of the LGBTQ orthodoxy. …It would mean that Christian schools are no longer Christian..."; said on March 25, 2021 in response to USA Today sports columnist Hemal Jhaveri's call for Oral Roberts University to be banned from the NCAA because Christianity is "archaic" and "wildly out of line with modern society and the basic values of human decency": "This is language beyond anything we've yet seen, although the logic has been there all the time...the most dangerous letters when it comes to the continuation of Christian higher education are the letters NCAA, because the NCAA is indeed adopting policies and pointing in directions that will make it impossible for Christian institutions that hold to a biblical standard of morality, or even a biblical definition of male and female, to continue in participation...We're about to find out just how many Christian schools are going to be willing to stand on biblical standards...we're about to find out just how many schools are actually serving the cause of sports, and how many are going to serve the cause of Christ...recognize if it's said about Oral Roberts University today, it will be said about you, your school, your church, your organization, your Christian congregation, tomorrow. Count on it) Andrew Walker (Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission Director of Policy Studies, signed the joint statement "Created Male and Female: An Open Letter from Religious Leaders" which on December 15, 2017 condemned gender ideology: "...We acknowledge and affirm that all human beings are created by God and thereby have an inherent dignity. We also believe that God created each person male or female, therefore, sexual difference is not an accident or a flaw...Children especially are harmed when they are told that they can "change" their sex or, further, given hormones that will affect their development and possibly render them infertile as adults. Parents deserve better guidance on these important decisions, and we urge our medical institutions to honor the basic medical principle of "first, do no harm." Gender ideology harms individuals and societies by sowing confusion and self-doubt. The state itself has a compelling interest, therefore, in maintaining policies that uphold the scientific fact of human biology and supporting the social institutions and norms that surround it...The movement today to enforce the false idea — that a man can be or become a woman or vice versa — is deeply troubling. It compels people to either go against reason — that is, to agree with something that is not true — or face ridicule, marginalization, and other forms of retaliation...") Anne Paulk (former homosexual, criticized Amazon on August 29, 2019 for refusing to sell her book about her conversion story “It is appalling that Amazon has banned books detailing how one struggling with unwanted same-sex attraction can overcome those feelings and steward his or her sexuality in a biblical fashion, while thinking nothing of selling books that celebrate the kind of deviancy Jeffrey Epstein was accused of”) Austin Ruse (columnist, subjected to an FBI investigation on or before July 3, 2018 after his tweet comparing pressure on business owners to place LGBT rainbows in their locales' windows to mafia shakedowns was reported by the Human Rights Campaign as a civil rights violation, the FBI closed the investigation as trivial, wrote that the complaint was akin to "swatting" and added “It works like this: A local restaurant is owned by a faithful Catholic who objects to the gay agenda. He does not want to put up the gay rainbow. He finds it offensive. So, he doesn’t put it up. Gays notice he doesn’t have the gay rainbow affixed to his window. ‘Why don’t you have the rainbow on your window?’ they ask. ‘Are you homophobic? Do you really want the local community to know about you?’ You can see it spooling out from there. He is targeted by the local bully boys who proceed to make his life miserable, perhaps harming and even shuttering his business”) Betty Rendon (wife of Carlos Hincapie, mother of Paula Hincapie, Colombian citizen, seminary student, fled Colombia's civil war in 2004 after receiving threats from guerrillas, applied for asylum; arrested on May 8, 2019 after her asylum request was rejected due to lack of corroborating documentation [which guerrilla activity prevented]; deported along with her husband on May 28, 2019) Bryan Fischer (American Family Association radio host, said on October 14, 2013 that the Christian organization's inclusion in a U.S. Army presentation as a hate group is “libelous, slanderous and blatantly false”) Chip Gaines (husband of Joanna Gaines, cable television personality, attacked in writing on November 30, 2016 for attending a church that does not support same sex marriage) Chris Stone (founder of Faith Driven Consumer, criticized Twitter for halting an October 16, 2014 online petition in support of the Houston pastors who are being subpoenaed by the city for their private communications to congregants on homosexuality, said "There is a deeply troubling pattern of censorship with social-media companies when people of faith speak out") Sr Clare Marie OP (teacher at Marin Catholic High School in San Francisco, left school with four other nuns on April 17, 2015 rather than participate in a student-led 'Day of Silence', students were handing out Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network literature which stated opposition to the bullying of gay students but which also stated “that any church which teaches homosexuality is sinful is an 'oppressor’ and should be opposed”) former Pastor Craig Stellpflug (aged 56, denied a Twitter advertisement on July 3, 2017 to promote his book defending traditional Christian marriage, Twitter wrote that the text "One Man One Woman is about God's original design for marriage carried from Adam and Eve in the garden through today" was 'hateful', said "My book is not hate! It highlights conservative Christian marriage values — therefore it is 'hate.' Have we stooped so low in our country that my freedom of speech is squelched because I promote my Christian beliefs?", Twitter was not reported as having returned his payment) Rev Dr David Wendel (signed the joint statement "Created Male and Female: An Open Letter from Religious Leaders" which on December 15, 2017 condemned gender ideology) Denise 'D C' McAllister (columnist, under police protection after receiving death and rape threats following a September 6, 2018 anti-abortion tweet) Rev Eugene F. Rivers III (signed the joint statement "Created Male and Female: An Open Letter from Religious Leaders" which on December 15, 2017 condemned gender ideology) Archbishop Foley Beach (signed the joint statement "Created Male and Female: An Open Letter from Religious Leaders" which on December 15, 2017 condemned gender ideology) Bishop Francis Y Kalabat (wrote after the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency detained 199 Iraqi nationals for deportation on June 12, 2017, including many Christians "The Church does not oppose justice, all hardened criminals that are a danger to society should be picked up. Many who were picked up are not hardened criminals but for the last decades have been great citizens [sic]. The genocide bill that was just passed by Congress last week to protect Christians goes against this very thing") Rev Franklin Graham (son of the Rev Billy Graham, head of two organizations audited by the IRS, reported on May 16, 2013 that the audits occured after they paid for advertisements supporting traditional marriage and "biblical principles"; on March 9, 2015 said "I believe we're going to see persecution in this country"; said “They [the Kleins] have taken a stand for the Word of God, and they should not have to stand alone. I believe that Christians across our nation will rally around Aaron and Melissa and their five children. Please pray for Aaron and Melissa, and pray for our nation. When our judges are punishing Christians for practicing what they believe, that’s persecution, plain and simple”, has pledged financial support from his Samaritan's Purse ministry; denounced on January 17, 2017 as a 'notorious Islamophobe' by an Islamist organization which also demanded that his invitation to the presidential inauguration be rescinded; banned from Facebook in December 2018 for a 2016 post on same gender bathrooms, reinstated 24 hours later, said that he had been subjected to a “personal attack” but accepted Facebook's apology) George Alexander (Secretary of the Orthodoxy Cognate web page, on December 8, 2015 criticized comedian Stephen Colbert for calling Patriarch Ignatius Ephrem II a "Golden Snake Santa Pope" who could serve as King of Mardi Gras in his vestments) Rev Dr Gregory P Seltz (signed the joint statement "Created Male and Female: An Open Letter from Religious Leaders" which on December 15, 2017 condemned gender ideology) Jan Markell (Olive Tree Ministries, spoke on her ministry's YouTube channel being suspended on December 1, 2015 for a video interview with the author of the book Killing Christians: Living the Faith Where It's Not Safe to Believe, channel was reinstated after media inquiries) Jaelene Hinkle (aged 24, soccer player, announced on June 7, 2017 that she would not be attending the Friendlies competitions in Norway and Sweden for 'personal reasons', the announcement came after U.S. Soccer announced that players would all wear gay pride jerseys, had previously been criticized by homosexual activists for her Christian views) Pastor Jalil Dawood (said after the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency detained 199 Iraqi nationals for deportation on June 12, 2017, including many Christians "We can't say these people went through genocide and send them back to be victimized again! We hope and pray that the issue gets resolved. America should never deport Christians to Iraq because they will be in trouble in Iraq as over a million left Iraq since 2003, and this will cause great hardship to their loved ones here [also bringing] harm to them physically, mentally, and spiritually if they [are] ever sent back. I understand that some might not have done their paperwork properly or [have] passed their datelines. But deportation is [an] extreme measure toward peaceful people that just want to survive and do well in this society [and] love America as their new home") Joanna Gaines (wife of Chip Gaines, cable television personality, attacked in writing on November 30, 2016 for attending a church that does not support same sex marriage) Joe Dallas (former homosexual, criticized Amazon on August 29, 2019 for refusing to sell his book about his conversion story "None of us will stop communicating the grace of God evidenced in our lives, and in the lives of those we serve") Bishop John A M Guernsey (signed the joint statement "Created Male and Female: An Open Letter from Religious Leaders" which on December 15, 2017 condemned gender ideology) Bishop John F Bradosky (signed the joint statement "Created Male and Female: An Open Letter from Religious Leaders" which on December 15, 2017 condemned gender ideology) Rev Dr L Roy Taylor (signed the joint statement "Created Male and Female: An Open Letter from Religious Leaders" which on December 15, 2017 condemned gender ideology) Senator Marco Rubio (as of August 25, 2017 has been attacked by an atheist group for tweeting 'unconstitutional' Bible passages) Maria Goldstein (request to print an anti-Planned Parenthood flyer denied by Office Depot on August 20, 2015, later received an apology after retaining legal counsel) Rev Dr Matthew Harrison (signed the joint statement "Created Male and Female: An Open Letter from Religious Leaders" which on December 15, 2017 condemned gender ideology) Michael Brown (writer, Christian Facebook page being "liked" by accounts with anti-Christian slurs in their names, Facebook has yet to stop the practice as of October 7, 2013; hundreds of religious videos demonetized by Facebook on August 17, 2017; banned for 12 hours from Twitter on January 24, 2021 after posting “Will I get punished by Twitter for saying that, in God's sight, ‘Rachel’ Levine [nominated by Biden to be his assistant secretary for HHS] is a man?”, wrote "what about Twitter’s extraordinary double standards, as Bible-believing conservatives like me get bashed and mocked and cursed by the minute on these platforms, specifically for being who we are and believing what we believe, and that is somehow fine and dandy") Pastor Michael L Brown – see Michael Brown Col Michael Madrid MD (reported on March 29, 2017 to have been subjected to a letter of admonishment by his new superior officer, that letter appears to be an attempt to overturn a 2014 investigation that cleared him of anti-homosexual allegations) Very Rev Nathanael Symeonides (signed the joint statement "Created Male and Female: An Open Letter from Religious Leaders" which on December 15, 2017 condemned gender ideology) Elder Paul Winter (signed the joint statement "Created Male and Female: An Open Letter from Religious Leaders" which on December 15, 2017 condemned gender ideology) Bishop Emeritus Paull Spring (signed the joint statement "Created Male and Female: An Open Letter from Religious Leaders" which on December 15, 2017 condemned gender ideology) Raymond Ibrahim (on August 13, 2012 called on Christians and others to contact their Senators in support of legislation to appoint a special envoy for religious minorities in the Middle East and Asia; wrote on February 18, 2013 about Egyptian President Morsi's objection to Coptic claims that one Christian girl disappears in Egypt every day - the President is technically correct, actually one Christian girl disappears every three days in Egypt) Ralph Sidway (Orthodox Christian researcher and writer, wrote on April 23, 2013 "For Orthodox and Coptic Christians, Easter falls on May 5 this year...It is all too common to view the practice of crucifixion as a form of torture and execution from antiquity which hasn’t been used in nearly two millennia, yet this is hardly the case. In fact, crucifixion is a standard means of execution in Saudi Arabia, and there is a growing movement among Islamists to bring back crucifixion as the preferred means of punishment for a variety of crimes...The persecuted Christians in the Islamic world, as they prepare to commemorate the Crucifixion of their Lord Jesus Christ, must feel, in their heart of hearts, as if they are ascending their own Golgotha. Like Jesus, they may also feel abandoned and terribly alone.") Dr Robert A J Gagnon (aged 59, professor of theology, suspended from Facebook on June 14, 2018 for 24 hours after he criticized a Canadian government-funded video that encouraged children to consider homosexuality) Tim Wildmon (American Family Association President, said on October 14, 2013 that the AFA will pursue a lawsuit due to the numerous reports they have received from U.S. Army and Air Force personnel who have seen the Christian organization described as a hate group) Tony Perkins (U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom chair and Family Research Council president, on March 30, 2020 tweeted a response to New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio's threat to permanently close churches and synagogues that continued to defy closure orders: “De Blasio’s incendiary & unconstitutional threat to permanently shut down churches and synagogues must be retracted or corrected if it was a misstatement. This type of religious hostility is what fuels non-compliance because it reveals a motive beyond public safety”, had gone on record as supporting the current temporary closures) Rev Tony Suarez (signed the joint statement "Created Male and Female: An Open Letter from Religious Leaders" which on December 15, 2017 condemned gender ideology) Walt Heyer (former transgendered, wrote on November 26, 2018 concerning the case of 6 year old James Younger in Dallas, Texas "The criteria for a diagnosis of childhood gender dysphoria are that a child be persistent, consistent, and insistent about being the opposite sex. James’s mom is 'all in' on the diagnosis of gender dysphoria and assisting with social transition. She used the name Luna to enroll him as a girl in first grade, and provides only female clothes. Meanwhile, Dad [Jeff Younger] isn’t seeing signs of gender dysphoria. In the father’s home, James appears to be a normal boy and doesn’t identify as a girl. He has a choice of boy’s or girl’s clothes there, and he chooses to dress as a boy. The fact that James changes gender identity depending on which parent is present makes the diagnosis of gender dysphoria both dubious and harmful. The transition therapist has observed that James is not consistent, insistent, or persistent in the desire to become 'Luna'...When the appointment only included his mother, James selected Luna, the name and gender he uses at his mother’s home and in his first-grade classroom. When the appointment was only with his father, however, James pointed to the boy name James, not the girl name...The glaring disparity between a child’s preferred identity when in the presence of one parent versus the other should cause a therapist to reassess, perhaps nullify the diagnosis of gender dysphoria, and terminate any steps toward transition. But in the case of James, this hasn’t happened...A questionable diagnosis locks a vulnerable child into an alternate gender identity long before they can understand what is happening or where it might lead. It’s up to the adults to observe the child carefully, consider and question the grey areas, and ultimately guard innocent children against hasty diagnoses and conclusions about something so fundamental as their gender identity"; speech on his experiences tagged as hate speech by YouTube and deleted, video reposted on June 19, 2020 with the six ‘offending’ words bleeped out)

United States - Alabama Pastor Alan Cross (criticized the state prison system on February 7, 2019 for not allowing Muslim clergy to attend to a Muslim prisoner who was about to be executed) Alison Harris (aged 66, arrested in Huntsville on May 26, 2017 for disorderly conduct outside an abortion clinic; acquitted on March 26, 2018) Bill Baker (mayor of Piedmont, reported on December 4, 2014 to have been fighting efforts by Wisconsin atheists to ban a municipal Christmas parade) Daniel French (husband of Valerie French, anti-abortion protestor, cited in a criminal complaint on May 18, 2018 that he had damaged an umbrella that was property of a Montgomery abortion clinic, the damage actually occurred when a clinic volunteer hit him over the head with the umbrella; charges dismissed on September 20, 2018 after he produced a video in court that showed him being beaten with the umbrella by the clinic volunteer) Pastor Earl Carswell (aged 61, shot in the leg on September 20, 2015 as he wrestled with a parishioner who had begun shooting in his church in East Selma, the man was disarmed by other parishioners) Ke'Ontai (beaten on May 23, 2013 while handing out pro-life literature, nose broken, asked for people to pray for his attacker and his wife) Kristan Hawkins (president of Students for Life America, reported on the May 23, 2013 attack on Ke'Ontai)

United States - Alaska Bishop David (said of the vandalism on June 10, 2015 at the Holy Resurrection Cathedral in Kodiak “I ask your prayers for Father Innocent and the cathedral family, the investigators and the perpetrator”) Archpriest Innocent Dresdow (described "severe" vandalism on June 10, 2015 at the Holy Resurrection Cathedral in Kodiak, the detained suspect had destroyed sacred objects and thrown the Reserved Mysteries [Eucharist] on the floor but left the visible cash donations untouched)

United States - Arizona Alex Stojsic (parishioner, condemned pro-Ustashi vandalism on his Phoenix church on Christmas Eve on January 6, 2015, called it "an outright threat") Breanna Koski (artist, filed suit in May 2016 to block a Phoenix municipal ordinance that would require her to cater to same sex weddings; the court ruled against her in September 2016; the court ruled again against her in October 2017; an appellate court ruled against her in June 2018; filed an appeal to the state supreme court on July 9, 2018; the state supreme court ruled 4-3 on September 16, 2019 that the artists could not be compelled to create custom wedding invitations in violation of their religious beliefs) Pastor Clyde Reed (as of September 25, 2014 has been ordered by the Gilbert government to post only small temporary signs at his church; the municipal government lost in a June 18, 2015 unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruling) David Cortman (ADF Senior Counsel, said on September 25, 2014 of the Gilbert government's ordnance to allow only small temporary signs at churches but exempt political signage “No law should treat the speech of churches worse than the speech of other similar speakers...One look at the political signs Gilbert allows on street corners virtually all year reveals how the town applies stricter rules to church signs than it does to political signs") Eric Rassbach (Deputy General Counsel for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, has been defending Pastor Clyde Reed's attempt to overturn the Gilbert government's ordnance to allow only small temporary signs at his church but exempt political signage, said on September 25, 2014 “Is anyone surprised that politicians gave themselves a special deal? Thank goodness the Constitution says that ‘Vote for Me!’ is not a more important message than ‘Come pray with us’”; said on June 18, 2015 "Gilbert had taken a page from George Orwell's Animal Farm, saying that all citizens were equal, but that politicians were 'more equal' than everyone else. The Supreme Court rightly decided that churches and other religious speakers should not be treated like second-class citizens") Joanna Duka (artist, filed suit in May 2016 to block a Phoenix municipal ordinance that would require her to cater to same sex weddings; the court ruled against her in September 2016; the court ruled again against her in October 2017; an appellate court ruled against her in June 2018; filed an appeal to the state supreme court on July 9, 2018; the state supreme court ruled 4-3 on September 16, 2019 that the artists could not be compelled to create custom wedding invitations in violation of their religious beliefs) Fr Joseph Terra (aged 56, shot during a rectory burglary in Phoenix on June 11, 2014, hospitalized in critical but stable condition) Fr Kenneth Walker (aged 29, shot during a rectory burglary in Phoenix on June 11, 2014, died in the hospital) Linda Hobby (wife of Pastor Mike Hobby) Lisa Gregory (high school parent, complained of the September 2, 2016 desecration of a statue of Mary the mother of Jesus in Scottsdale "It's beyond offensive. There's nothing worse than to desecrate an image of [Mary]...It's probably high school hijinx, but [the vandal] needs to understand that it was bigotry and intolerance. He probably doesn't realize that") Pastor Mark Rice (reported Bibles twice burned on May 11 and 17, 2014 on church property in Mesa, 'Hail Satan' carved in a church gate) Michael Salman (given a three year suspended sentence on or before July 6, 2012 - with 60 days to be served in jail and a $12,180 fine - for 67 zoning violations related to a church he constructed and operated on his residential property in Phoenix) Pastor Mike Hobby (husband of Linda Hobby, Quartzsite church dedicated to service of the homeless reported on May 28, 2014 to be foreclosed due to illegal taxes; as of June 23, 2014 has raised enough money from nationwide donors to cover the entire tax bill) Mike Williams (high school parent, complained of a Jesus character on the football field in Scottsdale on September 2, 2016 "He was dancing with the devil and mocking what we as Christians consider holy and sacred...Kids are young and dumb and make mistakes, but if you can't pray in a public school, you shouldn't be able to mock [Jesus] in a public school")

United States - Arkansas Rev Robert L James (Little Rock church set on fire on May 31, 2020, roof destroyed)

United States - California Abraham Amanios (brother of Isaac Amanios) Alex Bastian (District Attorney’s Office deputy chief of staff, parishioner, church office, library, and Sunday school in San Francisco destroyed in a September 17, 2020 arson attack, tweeted “For some context, in our history and around the globe, every time Armenians have been targeted, they come for our churches and our schools. But you know what? It’s very hard to terrorize my community, no matter how hard people try. We are hardened by the millennia of hardship and the centuries of injustice. Most of us in the community, are refugees, or the children of refugees, from war zones around the world”) Albin Rhomberg (board member, found guilty in a Federal civil trial jury in San Francisco on November 15, 2019 of multiple crimes for exposed Planned Parenthood's illegal sale of unborn baby parts, fined $70,000 in punitive damages) Pastor Amado Huizar (church in Chula Vista vandalized with satanic graffiti on September 8, 2019 after he and his parishioners joined public opposition to a public library Drag Queen Story Hour) Annmarie Devaney (on March 6, 2014 removed a cross from the site of her son's death in a motor vehicle accident in Lake Elsinore after receiving complaints from an atheist organization, other residents then replaced the cross and added signs that complained of the atheists’ actions) Arlen Verdehyou (widower of Bennetta Betbadal) Ashley Bridges (aged 24, bone cancer reported on October 2, 2104 to have metastasized after she refused chemotherapy while pregnant, said "There's no way I could kill a healthy baby because I'm sick...Maybe I'm not supposed to be here and she is") Corbishop Athanasis Toma (said of the Bible verses painted on an Assyrian church on November 25, 2016 in San Fernando "When I read the verse [2 Kings 19:35 – ‘That night the angel of the Lord went forth and struck down one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the Assyrian camp. Early the next morning, there they were, dead, all those corpses!’], I realized it's really not just graffiti. It's aimed toward a specific nation. It's hatred toward a nation. The meaning of that verse struck me hard. That's someone who knew what they were talking about") Audrey Jarvis (aged 19, on June 27, 2013 was ordered by a Sonoma State University supervisor in Santa Rosa to remove her cross necklace because it might offend others or make new students feel unwelcome, refused and left work early due to being upset, university has apologized to her) Bennetta Betbadal (aged 46, wife of Arlen Verdehyou, mother of three, health inspector, had fled Iran in 1987 to escape Islamic extremism, shot dead at a December 2, 2015 Christmas party in an Islamist attack in San Bernardino) Bianca Travis (president of the Chi Alpha student ministry organization which has been banned from the California State University-Stanislaus campus in Turlock because it requires its leaders to be Christian, said on March 23, 2015 “How can someone lead us if they don’t share our mission? It’s impossible to genuinely lead a worship service or Bible study unless you believe what you’re teaching”) Bruk (son of Isaac Amanios) Carl E. Olsen (Catholic World Report writer, wrote concerning their January 23, 2021 Twitter ban "Twitter is clearly indicating that unless CWR and other outlets jump through arbitrary and constantly-changing rhetorical and ideological hoops, they cannot use Twitter. Just as bad, Twitter is implicitly making CWR admit to hateful or bigoted language, even though such was never the case. Not only is such an approach subjective in nature, it is an overtly biased, unfair, and discriminatory approach that both stifles free speech and undermines CWR’s right to report on current events") Catherine Kennedy (Bible study teacher, mother of Alicia de la Rosa, sister of Deborah Ware, shot dead while driving home from a prayer meeting in Escondido on March 7, 2017) Pastor Clark Van Wick (as of February 11, 2016 has filed a complaint in federal court against the County of Riverside which has banned churches from Temecula Wine Country, said "It's a tragedy to see our religious liberty eroded in this country where men and women have fought and died to protect our liberty. It's un-American to see churches outlawed like we're seeing here in the neighborhood I've lived in for 27 years") Damian Meins (aged 58, husband of Trenna, father of Tawnya and Tina, shot dead at a December 2, 2015 Christmas party in an Islamist attack in San Bernardino) Pastor Dan Carroll (the state legislature passed a resolution on September 4, 2019 that called on Christians to refuse to convert homosexuals, in anticipation had earlier said "It's not a law. That's really important to say. Nobody's being forced to do anything...The thing that we agreed with the LGBTQ caucus on was that we are not for any kind of coercive behavior on the part of leaders or counselors or pastors. And as we shared with the LGBTQ caucus, we don't know anybody in California, that's Christian that is actually doing what they're suggesting that we're doing") Lt Cmdr Dan Klender, U.S. Navy (has filed a religious discrimination suit on November 11, 2013 against the Department of Veterans Affairs after being harassed and belittled over his Christian beliefs during a chaplain training course in San Diego) David Daleiden (aged 28, investigative journalist, home in Orange county and office raided on April 5, 2016, video recordings seized; indicted on March 28, 2017 on 15 felony counts for having secretly recorded Planned Parenthood officials negotiating the illegal sale of tissue harvested from aborted children, despite the fact that the state never prosecuted animal rights groups and NBC for doing the same with other subjects [and in the NBC case a civil case resulted in their exoneration under the law]; all counts dismissed in San Francisco on June 21, 2017; reported on July 19, 2017 to have been found in contempt of court in San Francisco for having released videos of abortionists publicly discussing abortion details, fined over $137,000, judge has connections to Planned Parenthood but refused to recuse himself; the judge was reported on September 6, 2017 to have increased the fine to almost $200,000; found guilty in a Federal civil trial jury in San Francisco on November 15, 2019 of multiple crimes for exposed Planned Parenthood's illegal sale of unborn baby parts, fined $125,000 in punitive damages) Dean Broyles (National Center for Law and Policy President, the state legislature passed a resolution on September 4, 2019 that called on Christians to refuse to convert homosexuals, in anticipation had earlier said "This resolution will not foster or promote the classic liberal ideals of authentic tolerance, diversity, or inclusion. It will crush them and destroy them. ACR 99 represents a misguided authoritarian attempt to coercively mold the beliefs of California's citizens regarding controversial and sensitive issues on human sexuality, and thus will only serve to chill and suppress the freedom of thought, speech, conscience, and religion of our citizens—safeguarded by the First Amendment") Diana Jimenez (nursing student at evangelical Biola University near Los Angeles, threatened with expulsion for showing graphic photos of abortions, teachers ordered by her department head to not give her letters of recommendation, on September 9, 2013 the university president apologized and the department head retired) Pastor Dwayne Shepherd (injured in a January 4, 2015 shooting in his San Diego church parking lot, he and another minister were deliberately targeted, hospitalized, released) Fr Elias Sleinan (Los Angeles cathedral reported on June 1, 2020 to have been vandalized with graffiti) Emily Nguyen (aged 16, cousin of Tin Nguyen) Fr Eric Reed (murdered in Eureka on January 1, 2014) Bishop Eric V Menees (signed the joint statement "Created Male and Female: An Open Letter from Religious Leaders" which on December 15, 2017 condemned gender ideology) Fr Fernando Ramirez (was too upset to be able to comment on the March 7, 2017 death of Catherine Kennedy) Gigi Kurz (Loyola Marymount University employee in Los Angeles, reported on July 22, 2016 to have been accused of a hate crime after defending traditional Christian morality, suspended, reinstated after 2 weeks) Grace Andonian (school principal, San Francisco school vandalized with Azeri and anti-Armenian graffiti on July 25, 2020, said "As I came today at 8 this morning, I saw the graffiti on the walls. I was shocked. I was appalled. The community is in shock. Our families, students, alumni, they were all in shock to see these hate messages on the wall") Pastor Greg Laurie (church in Irvine broken into by two naked men with a fake gun on August 30, 2017, no one else was present, minor damage found after they surrendered) Ham Nguyen (uncle of Tin Nguyen) Pastor Herbert Valero (aged 68, father of six, stabbed to death on March 14, 2017 outside his home in Salinas by a parishioner while praying with him) Hiwet Amanios (widow of Isaac Amanios) Isaac Amanios (aged 60, husband of Hiwet, father of Yosief, Bruk, Milka, health inspector, shot dead at a December 2, 2015 Christmas party in an Islamist attack in San Bernardino) Isabella Chow (aged 20, business and music student at the University of California at Berkeley, student government senator, reported on November 9, 2018 to have abstained in a vote regarding a resolution condemning a Federal government proposal to recognize gender as only male and female and based on the gender identified at birth, wrote “As a Christian, I personally do believe that certain acts and lifestyles conflict with what is good, right and true. I believe that God created male and female at the beginning of time, and designed sex for marriage between one man and one woman. For me, to love another person does not mean that I silently concur when, at the bottom of my heart, I do not believe that your choices are right or the best for you as an individual”, over 1,000 students signed a petition for her recall, the student newspaper refused to print a letter from her that further explained her position) Fr James Linton (husband, father of Grace aged 4, Augustine aged 3, and newborn Zoe, arrested in October 2016 for obstructing a business after offering to pray with clients of a San Bernardino abortion clinic) Jennifer Thalasinos (widow of Nicholas Thalasinos) Pastor Jim Domen (husband of Amanda, father of three, former homosexual, Newport Beach church's Vimeo account including 89 videos deleted on November 24, 2018 for 5 videos Vimeo incorrectly claimed advocated conversion therapy, later said "The only thing the videos did was tell stories of transformation, of how Jesus transformed my life. I didn't call [homosexuality] out as sin. I didn't call out any LGBT people. It was exclusively just speaking of my own personal story and others like mine"; reported on September 18, 2019 to have filed suit against Vimeo claiming US$75,000 in damages) Joan Short (aged 21, sister of Thrin Short, witnessed the assault on her sister) Jonathan Keller (California Family Council President, the state legislature passed a resolution on September 4, 2019 that called on Christians to refuse to convert homosexuals, in anticipation had earlier said "California Christians love our neighbors who identify as LGBTQ. Sadly, it appears Assemblyman Low and other intolerant legislators will not stop until people of faith publicly celebrate the legislature's preferred concept of sexual orientation and gender identity") Kevin Ortiz (newlywed, health inspector, church youth group leader and video technician, shot five times in a December 2, 2015 Islamic attack, hospitalized) Mandisa (Christian singer-songwriter, won two Grammys but did not attend the January 26, 2014 ceremony in Los Angeles, wrote “Both times I have gone to the Grammys I have witnessed performances I wish I could erase from my memory, and yes, I fast forwarded through several performances this year”) Mark Burnett (television producer, issued a call on April 3, 2015 for prayer for the persecuted, "This Holy Week we are calling upon Christians to also reflect upon the crucifixion, beheading, stoning, enforced slavery, sexual abuse, human trafficking, harassment, bombing and displacement of hundreds of thousands of Christians — and others — whose faith alone has made them a target of religious extremists. These communities need our love and support like never before, and they also need security and protection from the world like never before", call has been joined by 80 others) Matt Hadro (Catholic World Report writer, wrote an article that triggered Twitter to ban Catholic World Report on January 23, 2021, the article stated “Biden plans to nominate Dr. Rachel Levine, a biological man identifying as a transgender woman...") Michael Raymond Wetzel (aged 37, husband of Renee, father of six, health inspector, shot dead at a December 2, 2015 Christmas party in an Islamist attack in San Bernardino) Milka (daughter of Isaac Amanios) Mindy Whitman (widow of Robert Whitman, stabbed in the face in Redding on January 23, 2019 by a young man her husband had been counselling, survived) Natalie Grant (Gospel singer, left the January 26, 2014 Grammys award ceremony in Los Angeles early, denied that she left due to any one particular performance) Nicholas Thalasinos (husband of Jennifer, health inspector, shot dead at a December 2, 2015 Christmas party in an Islamist attack in San Bernardino) Oscar Rodriguez Jr (retired Air Force Master Sergeant, assaulted by uniformed airmen and forcibly ejected from Travis Air Force Base on April 2016 for having mentioned 'God' in a flag folding speech during a retirement ceremony in violation of regulations which state that the exact text is chosen by the retiree) Phu Nguyen (uncle of Tin Nguyen) Renee Wetzel (widow of Michael Wetzel) Auxiliary Bishop Robert McElroy (said in San Francisco on October 3, 2014 that the state government “directly targeted” two Catholic universities and violated Federal civil rights laws when it ordered them to cover abortions via their health insurance) Robert Whitman (aged 67, husband of Mindy Whitman, retired pastor, stabbed to death in Redding on January 23, 2019 by a young man he had been counselling) Roma Downey (television producer, issued a call on April 3, 2015 for prayer for the persecuted, "This Holy Week we are calling upon Christians to also reflect upon the crucifixion, beheading, stoning, enforced slavery, sexual abuse, human trafficking, harassment, bombing and displacement of hundreds of thousands of Christians — and others — whose faith alone has made them a target of religious extremists. These communities need our love and support like never before, and they also need security and protection from the world like never before", call has been joined by 80 others) Rostom Aintablian (church trustee, church office, library, and Sunday school in San Francisco destroyed in a September 17, 2020 arson attack, said "They set three different fires, two on the bottom floor, and one on the middle floor") Pastor Rudy Trujillo (attacked and beaten by a former parishioner in San Fernando on March 23, 2017, hospitalized, underwent surgery) Russell Willingham (New Creation Ministries executive director, the state legislature passed a resolution on September 4, 2019 that called on Christians to refuse to convert homosexuals, in anticipation had earlier said "ACR discriminates against perfectly rational adults who seek an alternate viewpoint to the gay-affirming counseling many of them have already tried and found wanting. I believe ACR99 sets the stage for future laws that will criminalize pastor caregivers like me who provide such a resource - resources that offer an option for those who don't want what the state is telling them they must accept") Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone (as of February 19, 2015 has been asked by state lawmakers to remove 'morality clauses' from an upcoming contract for school teachers at Church owned schools in San Francisco; as of February 27, 2015 has become the object of attacks by the Singer Associates public relations firm, which has been actively calling on Pope Francis to remove him and for locals to mount a revolution against him; has become the subject of an April 16, 2015 San Francisco newspaper ad signed by a number of prominent 'self-identified' Catholics calling on Pope Francis to remove him for his attempts to promote traditional Christian morality in Catholic schools; on June 20, 2020 condemned the toppling of statues in a San Francisco city park including one of St Junipero Serra, said “What is happening to our society? A renewed national movement to heal memories and correct the injustices of racism and police brutality in our country has been hijacked by some into a movement of violence, looting and vandalism”) San Trinh (fiance of Tin Nguyen) Sandra Merritt (aged 64, investigative journalist, office raided on April 5, 2016, video recordings seized; indicted on March 28, 2017 on 15 felony counts for having secretly recorded Planned Parenthood officials negotiating the illegal sale of tissue harvested from aborted children, despite the fact that the state never prosecuted animal rights groups and NBC for doing the same with other subjects [and in the NBC case a civil case resulted in their exoneration under the law]; 14 counts dismissed in San Francisco on June 21, 2017, one count on invasion of privacy allowed to stand; found guilty in a Federal civil trial jury in San Francisco on November 15, 2019 of multiple crimes for exposed Planned Parenthood's illegal sale of unborn baby parts, fined $25,000 in punitive damages) Sandra Palacios (California Catholic Conference associate director for governmental relations, on April 3, 2017 criticized a proposed law that would make it illegal for any church to require its employees to sign an acknowledgement that they would abide by Christian beliefs related to 'reproductive health') Shannon Fitzpatrick (reported on August 29, 2017 to have written in an email to Catholic San Anselmo school authorities after the school removed its statues in deference to other faiths: “Articulating an inclusive foundation appears to mean letting go of San Domenico’s 167- year tradition as a Dominican Catholic school and being both afraid and ashamed to celebrate one’s heritage and beliefs”, the school has also stopped classes for catechism, First Communion, and Confirmation) Sierra Sunshine Clayborn (aged 27, daughter of Wendy Womack-Smith, environmental health specialist, shot dead at a December 2, 2015 Christmas party in an Islamist attack in San Bernardino) Fr Smpad Saboundjian (church office, library, and Sunday school in San Francisco destroyed in a September 17, 2020 arson attack) Maj Steven Firtko, U.S. Army Ret (has filed a religious discrimination suit on November 11, 2013 against the Department of Veterans Affairs after being harassed and belittled over his Christian beliefs during a chaplain training course in San Diego) Tamishia (sister of Sierra Clayborn) Bishop Teman L Bostic Sr (stabbed to death in San Leandro on February 12, 2016, an adult son has been arrested) Thrin Short (aged 16, sister of Joan Short, assaulted during a March 4, 2014 pro-life demonstration by a University of California, Santa Barbara professor of 'feminist studies...with specialties in pornography and sex work') Tin Nguyen (aged 31, engaged, daughter of Vanessa Nguyen, health inspector, shot dead at a December 2, 2015 Christmas party in an Islamist attack in San Bernardino) Troy Newman (board member, found guilty in a Federal civil trial jury in San Francisco on November 15, 2019 of multiple crimes for exposed Planned Parenthood's illegal sale of unborn baby parts, fined $50,000 in punitive damages) Vanessa Nguyen (mother of Tin Nguyen) Wendy Womack-Smith (mother of Sierra Clayborn) Yesenia Ruiz-Rojo (aged 21, discovered to have terminal cancer 15 weeks into her pregnancy, refused all treatments that would harm her child, gave birth to a healthy boy at 32 weeks, as of July 3, 2014 is now in hospice) Yosief (son of Isaac Amanios) Zeke Gebrekidane (nephew of Isaac Amanios)

United States - Colorado Fr Andre-Sebastian Mahanna (Lebanese native, had a gun held to his head by Palestinian terrorists when he was a two day old baby, reported on December 3, 2015 to be now assisting Christian refugees in Denver) Bernadette Medina Gonzalez (said after the beheading of a statue of St Jude and the destruction of dozens of candles at her parish shrine in Denver on the weekend before August 10, 2020: “That’s where people come and they leave their candles and pray because we can’t all fit into the church”) Fr David Price (Colorado Springs cathedral rector, condemned the July 15, 2020 desecration of a statue to Mary the mother of Jesus) Dede Chism (executive director of a pregnancy crisis center which as of May 24, 2018 has brought suit against a pro-abortion group for posting a video to Facebook which falsely stated that the center did not employ medical professionals) Doug Wilson (Catholic Benefits Association CEO in Denver, secured a permanent injunction in Federal court in March 2018 after the court ruled that the Federal government's contraception mandate violated the Religious Freedom Restoration Act; said on August 20, 2018 "In addition to our current and future members, Americans of all faiths will benefit from the legal precedents we have achieved and from the court’s affirmation" after the court ruled that the Federal government had to pay the Association's $718,000 legal costs) Elijah Swasey (son of Officer Garrett and Rachel Swasey) Eric Talley (aged 51, husband, father of seven, brother of Kirstin, son of Homer Talley, police officer, shot dead by a suspected Islamic State sympathizer in Boulder on March 22, 2021) Everett Stadig (aged 69, assaulted in July 2012 in Denver while collecting signatures for a pro-life petition, required surgery for a broken hip, the pro-choice assailant was later linked to three sexual assaults by DNA evidence) Faith Swasey (daughter of Officer Garrett and Rachel Swasey) Officer Garrett Swasey (aged 44, husband of Rachel, father of Elijah and Faith, church co-pastor, shot dead on November 27, 2015 by an assailant at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood clinic along with two others) Grace Silva (said after the beheading of a statue of St Jude and the destruction of dozens of candles at her parish shrine in Denver on the weekend before August 10, 2020: “The little courtyard is a place you can go to pray when you need to be by yourself. It’s a meditation area. It’s very calming") Greta Lindecrantz (jailed in contempt of court on February 26, 2018 for refusing to testify against a man sentenced to death) Jack Phillips (bakery owner, cited in 2013 for refusing to make a cake for a same gender wedding; the state Supreme Court in Denver refused on April 25, 2016 to hear his appeal; the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the state Civil Rights Commission ruling against him and upheld his right to exercise his religious beliefs on June 4, 2018; the state Civil Rights Commission ruled against him in another separate but factually identical case on June 28, 2018; reported on August 15, 2018 to have brought suit against the state Civil Rights Commission which alleged “unconstitutional bullying” against him; the state Civil Rights Commission dropped its case in March 2019 but allowed it to proceed in civil court; civil trial begun in Denver on March 22, 2021) James Harper (withdrew from his public high school after receiving death threats over his refusal to sing an Islamic hymn with the school choir) Jan McIntosh (vice president of a pregnancy crisis cente which as of May 24, 2018 has brought suit against a pro-abortion group for posting a video to Facebook which falsely stated that the center did not employ medical professionals) Kendrick Ray Castillo (aged 18, son of John Castillo, student, shot dead in his school in Highlands Ranch while attempting to disarm another student on May 7, 2019, the armed student was motivated by anti-Christian sentiments) Mark Haas (archdiocesan spokesman, responded on or before September 6, 2019 to a lawsuit that sought to compel a Christian hospital to administer euthanasia: “asking a Christian hospital to play any role in violating the dignity of human life is asking the Christian hospital to compromise its values and core mission. This is not the hospital forcing its beliefs upon others, but rather having outside views forced upon it”) Neven Stanisic (aged 23, coffee machine repairman, 'a deeply religious young man', shot dead by a suspected Islamic State sympathizer in Boulder on March 22, 2021) Rachel Swasey (widow of Officer Garrett Swasey, mother of Elijah and Faith) Pastor Randy Pfaff (church in Florence denied rental use of a public school on Sunday in a July 28, 2015 court decision) Rita Tamur (aged 19, Iraqi refugee, friend of the family that recently drowned off Greece, reported on December 3, 2015 to have said in Denver "It is hard to understand how they were able to escape the horrors of ISIS yet still end up dying this way", other girlfriends have disappeared "I pray for the young girls in Iraq. I want them to have an opportunity for freedom") Archbishop Samuel Aquila (defied by administrators at Regis University on November 16, 2018 after writing in Denver that their “guidance is not in conformity with the Catholic faith, despite the attempts made to justify it as rooted in Jesuit values. On the contrary, Pope Francis has repeatedly decried the promotion of gender fluidity as a type of ideological colonization...Why is Regis University promoting and teaching an ideology that is contrary to what we know from the Scriptures?”; Denver cathedral reported on June 1, 2020 to have been repeatedly vandalized over several nights; condemned the beheading of a statue of St Jude and the destruction of dozens of candles at a parish shrine in Denver on the weekend before August 10, 2020: “it is troubling to see the increased reports of vandalism at Catholic churches this summer, both across the county and in our archdiocese”, called for prayers for the conversion of the perpetrator) Sandra Bartolo (said after the beheading of a statue of St Jude and the destruction of dozens of candles at her parish shrine in Denver on the weekend before August 10, 2020: “This is not good. It’s ugly. I don’t have words. I don’t know why people are like that...I would pray for that person”) Major Steve Lewis (Air Force officer, reported on August 19, 2016 to have voluntarily removed a Bible from his desk at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado Springs after an atheist group demanded he be "aggressively punished" for having it, case under review by his superiors)

United States - Connecticut Andrew Sheldon (described the June 10, 2013 desecration of St Margaret Mary Church in Shelton "It's so sad someone would do this. This is like my second home") Rev Dr Augustus Sealy (aged 54, husband of Sharon Sealy, shot on May 25, 2015 while placing flags on his Hartford church property to commemorate Memorial Day, hospitalized in serious condition) David Nordin (described the June 10, 2013 desecration of St Margaret Mary Church in Shelton "It's a disgrace. It wasn't a spur-of-the-moment act. It had to be planned") Fr John J Stronkowski (St Margaret Mary Church in Shelton vandalized and desecrated on June 10, 2013) Fr John Paul Walker OP (New Haven church vandalized with Satanic graffiti on July 16, 2020) Joseph Tassitano (memorial Mass for his son cancelled by the June 10, 2013 desecration of St Margaret Church in Shelton, said "This destruction is pretty terrible. It was calculated") Fr Nello Barachini (described the June 10, 2013 desecration of St Margaret Mary Church in Shelton "This is a hate crime. They knew the symbols of the Roman Catholic religion and targeted them") Sharon Sealy (wife of Rev Dr Augustus Sealy, said “He hasn’t lost any hope. You know, this is something that happened that was really terrible and shouldn’t have happened and we’ve already prayed for that person who actually committed the crime”)

United States - Delaware Fr William Graney (elderly priest, reported on August 1, 2018 to have been beaten in his office in Pike Creek, dowsed with wine and forced to orally ingest compressed air, hospitalized in serious condition)

United States - District of Columbia Amelia Irvine (college student, president of the Georgetown University campus group Love Saxa which supports traditional marriage , as of October 20, 2017 has been threatened with banishment from campus as a hate group; the student government voted 8-4 on November 3, 2017 to not banish Love Saxa, wrote “The Student Activities Commission was right to continue to recognize us as a student organization in light of the fact that we hold views consistent with Georgetown’s own Catholic identity. We hope that the outcome of this situation means that any and all other student groups at Georgetown which hold to beliefs consistent with Georgetown’s founding values will likewise be protected from unwarranted demands that they be dissolved”; complained to the university on February 3, 2018 that hundreds of dollars in donations to Love Saxa had been diverted by the student government to LGBTQ campus groups) Amy Coney Barrett (law school professor, mother of 7, federal appellate court nominee, told by Senator Dianne Feinstein on September 6, 2017 "When you read your speeches, the conclusion one draws is that the dogma lives loudly within you" [pundits replied that the Senator sounded like Star Wars’ Yoda], also questioned by Senator Dick Durban as to whether she was an "Orthodox Catholic"; nomination confirmed by the full Senate on a 55-43 vote on October 31, 2017) Rev Andrew White (former Vicar of Bagdad, Iraq, said on December 3, 2015 "On a day after those events in California yesterday, those awful, terrible events, we realize that the destruction of religion is not just over there [in the Middle East], it's here where you are. What we are seeing going on, what we saw in Paris, what we saw yesterday in California, is, as far as I am concerned, the beginning of the third world war. It's unlike any concept of war we may have had before. Society is falling apart. It's not just Iraq that is broken - it is society") Bishop Angaelos (resident of the United Kingdom, Egyptian citizen, said during the March 10, 2016 presentation at the National Press Club of a 280 page joint report by the Knights of Columbus and In Defense of Christians on the continuing persecution of Christians "If an act of Genocide is decreed, it must be based indiscriminately on the facts alone...If we look at Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide [1948] we find that these acts against Christians in the Middle East fall very much in line with the requirements laid out by the United Nations...If Christians are excluded from the classification of Genocide, my concern, fear and expectation is that we will be responsible for a greater and more ruthless campaign of persecution against them, not only in Iraq and Syria but throughout the region. People on the ground, regardless of rhetoric, stipulation and convention, will perceive that the international community has supported one group over another, and Christians will become a greater soft target. How can we not declare Genocide if Christians are suffering the same fate, at the same time, under the same conditions, at the hands of the same perpetrators?...What is happening in the Middle East and Syria is criminal and is an indictment of our humanity if left unaddressed. Whether speaking of Yazidis, Christians or other communities, the atrocities they face are deplorable and warrant not only our concern but our intentional action. These are atrocities not only against international convention, but against a God-given right for people to live free, safe and dignified...Inaction is inexcusable and will lead to further persecution, not only of Christians but of others") Angela McCaskill (Chief Diversity Officer at Gallaudet University, demoted and verbally abused for signing a petition to put same sex marriage to a popular vote, told by a professor to stop attending her church “or suffer dramatic consequences”, as of October 10, 2013 has begun a civil suit for damages against the university) Carl Anderson (Knights of Columbus CEO, said during the March 10, 2016 presentation at the National Press Club of a 280 page joint report by the Knights of Columbus and In Defense of Christians on the continuing persecution of Christians “There is only one word that adequately, and legally, describes what is happening to Christians and other religious minorities in the Middle East. That word is genocide...While we believe this to be the most comprehensive report on this subject to date, covering incidents in Iraq, Syria, Libya, Egypt and Yemen, we continue to receive new reports and new evidence”) Chad C Pecknold (theology professor, tweeted that Senator's Feinstein's September 6, 2017 anti- Christian questioning of appellate court nominee Amy Coney Barrett was "chilling", added "Senators Durbin and Feinstein weren't questioning a judicial nominee, they were holding a Religious Inquisition with extreme prejudice" and "I teach dogma for a living, and can honestly say that even orthodox Catholics aren't nearly so 'dogmatic' as secular progressives") Fr Douglas al-Bazi (Iraqi citizen, said during the March 10, 2016 presentation at the National Press Club of a 280 page joint report by the Knights of Columbus and In Defense of Christians on the continuing persecution of Christians: “I’m here to tell you that my people — they feel that we are forgotten and alone. And I am here to tell the Americans the first right step should be taken is to call it a genocide”) Ed McFadden (archdiocesan secretary for communications, on November 28, 2017 explained the lawsuit against the district for its refusal to allow religious bus ads “Really the issue here isn’t so much our specific ad, or how we present it. It’s shutting down our ability to promote our faith or to share our faith in the public square, that is really what we’re talking about here. [It removes] any respectable promotion of faith in the public square. We believe that that’s just a violation of our First Amendment rights”) Faith McDonnell (Christian persecution researcher, personal Facebook page deleted on February 15, 2019 after she posted a photo of the 21 Coptic martyrs on the four year anniversary of their murder by the Islamic State [ISIL], appeal denied, further communications unanswered) Fr Frank Pavone (national director of Priests for Life, stated that the group would not comply with a November 14, 2014 U.S. Court of Appeals ruling which required the pro-life group to fund abortions, added “To ask a group of priests to cooperate in the government’s plan to expand access to birth control and abortion-inducing drugs is about as contrary to religious freedom as you can get") Fr Greg Shaffer (chaplain at George Washington University's Newman Center, reported as of April 5, 2013 to be subject of an effort to remove him for his advocacy of traditional Christian morality among the Catholic students) Joseph Neigh (described the January 21, 2017 attack on Kerrigan Skelly "I don't remember exactly what she said but she spat in his face...There have been a lot of people who have done dirty dancing around us, flicked us off, cursed at us but we are not going return evil for evil. We say, 'God bless you.' We are not out here casting stones, we are throwing life preservers") Dr Katrina Lantos Swett (chair of the U.S. Commission for International Religious Freedom, stated on May 30, 2013 that “There is no doubt that religious freedom faces extraordinary and novel challenges that grow out of increasing and aggressive secularism, coupled with fundamental redefinitions of core social institutions...These changes are putting some religious communities on a collision course with newly emerging social concurrences on matters of morality, equality and how we define fundamental civil and human rights”) Kerrigan Skelly (street preacher, spat upon by a participant of the January 21, 2017 Women's March on Washington) Dr Mark E. Green (aged 52, physician, state legislator, withdrew his nomination for Secretary of the Army on May 5, 2017 after attacks on his Christian views) Mary Hassan (attorney, on May 30, 2017 wrote of new Illinois Department of Children and Family Services policies that will require Christian social workers who adhere to traditional teachings on gender to be fired) Michael Corral (street preacher, pushed against a wall by several participants of the January 21, 2017 Women's March on Washington, speaker wire cut) Michael Pompeo (aged 54, Secretary of State nominee, attacked by Senator Cory Booker in his April 12, 2018 nomination hearing for his traditional Christian views) Nina Shea (Hudson Institute, spoke during the March 10, 2016 presentation at the National Press Club of a 280 page joint report by the Knights of Columbus and In Defense of Christians on the continuing persecution of Christians) Rev Rob Fisher (church vandalized and damaged by fire on May 31, 2020) Ron Crews (Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty executive director; UPDATE: announced on September 23, 2016 that the Veterans Administration would no longer prohibit Christian caroling or religious displays at Christmas) Russell D. Moore (Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission president, wrote on October 14, 2014 of the Houston city's attempts to subpoena pastors' communications with congregants "I am simply stunned by the sheer audacity of this. The preaching of sermons in the pulpits of churches is of no concern to any government bureaucrat at all. The country settled, a long time ago, with a First Amendment that the government would not supervise, license, or bully religious institutions") Russell Vought (nominee for Deputy Director if the Office of Management and Budget, told by U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders on June 7, 2017 that he is 'really not someone who this country is supposed to be about' due to his traditional Christian views) Rev Samuel Rodriguez (president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, speaking at the 2013 National Religious Freedom Conference on May 30, 2013 said “we live in a time where the very freedom to express our respected faith narratives stands threatened”) Stephanie Goodloe (youth minister, shot dead by an ex-boyfriend on June 18, 2016) Trevor Neil McFadden (aged 39, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, federal court nominee, questioned by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse on June 28, 2017 regarding his membership in a church that prohibited homosexual clergy and opposed same sex marriage; nomination confirmed by the full Senate on a 84-10 vote on October 30, 2017)

United States - Florida Amber Avalos (aged 33, church nursery and children's director, mother of six, shot dead on December 5, 2014 in Bradenton by her husband at a neighbor's home, the neighbor was also killed) Donna Dunbar (banned on February 6, 2018 from leading a Bible Study in a common area by her condominium association in Port Charlotte, the association also posted a sign on the common area organ stating "ANY AND ALL CHRISTIAN MUSIC IS BANNED!") Fr Edvaldo DaSilva (said the statue of Jesus which was overturned in Miami on July 15, 2020 happened after the pedestal screws had been tampered with) 'G L' (college student at Polk State College, Lakeland, reported on May 6, 2015 to have been given four zeros on assignments by her professor because she would not agree to his anti- Christian views) Gabriella Perez (aged 5, reported on April 2, 2014 to have been told by a lunch monitor that she could not pray at school in Oviedo, the school principal later called a meeting and reminded the staff than there is no policy against prayer in school) Very Rev George A M Conger (husband, father, Facebook ad for his feed of his morning and evening prayer services from Lecanto reported on March 12, 2021 to have been cancelled, possibly for a quote from the Bible or the Book of Common Prayer) Giovanni Rubeo (fifth grade student in Broward county, told by his teacher in early April 2014 that he could not read the Bible in the free reading period) Pastor James Battle (aged 31, married, father of two, shot dead on December 5, 2014 in Bradenton by the husband of a church employee) Fr John Cayer (described a June 5, 2019 church arson attack in Tallahassee in which the cathedra and presiders’ chairs were destroyed, sanctuary walls were charred, building suffered smoke damage) Marshall Polston (suspended from college in Orlando on March 24, 2017 after he challenged a Muslim's professor's class statement that Christianity was false and a Muslim student's advocacy of Sharia punishment of homosexuals, said “He [the student] stated that a good punishment for gays, adulterers, and thieves was the removal of a certain body part, as determined by Sharia law. It took a few seconds for me to realize that he actually said that, especially after what this community has faced with the tragic loss of life at Pulse [the gay nightclub where 49 were killed by a jihadist in 2016]”; reinstated on March 30, 2017 after his professor filed a false police report alleging violation of her restraining order against him and he proved with credit card receipts and security video that he was in a restaurant with his grandfather in another town at the time; the professor withdrew her restraining order on April 4, 2017) Mat Staver (Liberty Counsel, on February 26, 2015 criticized the City of Lake Worth for threatening to fine and foreclose churches if they did not take out a business license, even though the city ordinances exempt churches, threats were made at the instigation of a homosexual businessman) Olga Woltering (aged 84. wife of Ralph Woltering , great-grandmother, shot dead at the Ft. Lauderdale airport on January 6, 2017 by a mentally ill man under Islamist influences) Fr Patrick J. O'Doherty (Ocala church attacked by an arsonist on July 11, 2020 while parishioners were gathering for Mass, no one was injured) Ralph Woltering (husband of Olga Woltering, great-grandfather, shot at the Ft. Lauderdale airport on January 6, 2017 by a mentally ill man under Islamist influences, hospitalized) Fr Rene Wayne Robert OFM (aged 71, killed on April 10, 2016 by a recently released prisoner for his automobile) Sara Hellwege (midwife, as of July 9, 2014 has been denied employment in Tampa due to her pro- life views) Shirley Timmons (aged 70, wife of Steve Timmons, grandmother, shot dead at the Ft. Lauderdale airport on January 6, 2017 by a mentally ill man under Islamist influences) Steve Timmons (aged 70, husband of Shirley Timmons, grandfather, shot at the Ft. Lauderdale airport on January 6, 2017 by a mentally ill man under Islamist influences, hospitalized in critical condition) Suzanne Mazzola (aged 34, special education teacher, wife of Joseph, mother of Matteo, Ella, Luca, and Owen in Tamarac, died from complications of pregnancy on February 2, 2015, had been advised to abort Owen early in the pregnancy but had refused) Terry Andres (aged 62, husband, father, grandfather, shot dead at the Ft. Lauderdale airport on January 6, 2017 by a mentally ill man under Islamist influences) Archbishop Thomas Wenski (condemned the July 15, 2020 desecration of a statue of Jesus, asked Miami police to treat it as a hate crime)

United States - Georgia Pastor Carole Hulslander (removed on or before April 21, 2015 from her position in Atlanta because she signed a letter supporting the traditional definition of marriage, her replacement verbally abused parishioners who tried to calm the situation) Chike Uzuegbunam (college student, denied permission to hand out Gospel literature in campus free speech zones in Lawrenceville in the summer or autumn of 2016; as of September 30, 2017 the U.S. Justice Department has joined his civil rights suit against the college: “GGC [the college] applied a ‘heckler’s veto’ that allowed every listener to become a regulator unto himself and to shut down expression simply because the listener found it ‘uncomfortable'. For this reason alone, GGC’s content-based restriction fails strict scrutiny") Pastor Daunte Long (church in McDonough reported on March 21, 2018 to have been vandalized with satanic graffiti, said to the vandals “I want to invite you to become a part of this community, because I believe that you need help, and that we can help and build a stronger community together”) Dr Eric Walsh (public health director, part time minister, job offer with the state Department of Public Health withdrawn on May 16, 2015 after the department investigated the contents of his homilies; as of October 26, 2016 the state of Georgia has in its defense against his legal suit for religious discrimination demanded all of his homilies and ministerial training documents, announced that he will fight the request as discriminatory) Fred Naylor (parishioner at Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay chapel, veteran, on October 14, 2013 joined Fr Ray Leonard in his Federal suit against the Defense Department to force the chapel to reopen) Assistant Pastor Jeanette Dudley (church in Macon damaged by a 'suspicious' fire on June 23, 2015, said "The times that we're living in...it's not going to get any better. It's going to get worse") Joseph Lawhorn (United States Army Chaplain, sent a Letter of Concern from his commanding officer at Fort Benning that accused him of "advocating one system of beliefs over another" at a November 20, 2014 suicide prevention class for having provided both Christian and non-Christian literature) Fire Rescue Chief Kelvin Cochran (church deacon, reported on November 27, 2014 to have been suspended by the city of Atlanta for one month without pay for publishing a book defending traditional Christian morality) Fr Ray Leonard (contract Navy chaplain, prohibited from saying Mass on October 7, 2013 at Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay due to the government shutdown even as a volunteer: “My parishioners were upset. They were angry and dismayed. They couldn’t believe that in America they’d be denied access to Mass by the government”; found out that only Catholic services are prohibited at the base chapel, has on October 14, 2013 brought suit against the Department of Defense in Federal Court; claimed on January 6, 2014 that the government illegally retaliated against him by trying to force him into a new contract that would have negated his lawsuit and allowed a search of his personal records, denied two months’ salary when he refused) Sarah Harmening (aged 17, killed in a bus accident on June 8, 2017 while in route to missionary work in Botswana)

United States - Hawaii Deacon Walter Yoshimitsu (reported on March 13, 2017 to have said “The [state] Senate’s approval of assisted suicide ignores the tremendous strides we have made as a community to promote the value of hospice and palliative care to care for those with terminal illnesses and to ensure everyone has access to quality end of life care...Those in favor of assisted suicide have framed this as an issue about individual autonomy and freedom of choice, when it fact it is nothing more than a veiled attempt to make it legal for physicians to murder their patients with immunity”)

United States - Idaho Donald Knapp (minister, has been told by the city of Coeur d’Alene to perform same-sex weddings or face fines and possible jail, as of October 17, 2014 has filed for a temporary restraining order against the city) Evelyn Knapp (minister, has been told by the city of Coeur d’Alene to perform same-sex weddings or face fines and possible jail, as of October 17, 2014 has filed for a temporary restraining order against the city)

United States - Illinois Fr Anthony Brankin (church creche vandalized on December 7, 2014 in Chicago, statues of Mary and Joseph decapitated) Allen Smith (aged 80, retired pastor, shot dead by another retired pastor in their retirement home near Chicago during a theological argument on September 5, 2016) Bruno Carter (parishioner, witnessed the shootings of two men [one an usher] at his Chicago church on August 13, 2017, said "The kids were partially in the door, and they heard the gunfire and their father [Emmanuel Fleming] was telling them to get in...It seems like the more people march and carry signs — and the more churches bind together to say 'Stop the violence' — the more they disregard it and just continue to kill") Pastor Calvin Lindstrom (wrote on November 22, 2016 after a pro-life memorial at his Arlington Heights school was twice defaced "Christian Liberty is troubled that someone would deface a sign promoting life for the unborn. We pray for those who are responsible and for their repentance and salvation in Jesus Christ. We are certainly not going to stop promoting a message of life") Chris Iverson (school advisor, said on November 22, 2016 after a pro-life memorial at his Arlington Heights school was twice defaced “The students are saddened that people would do this, since all they’re trying to do is speak the truth. We want to respond in kindness. We don’t want to render evil for evil. This is a school where small children go. This is really an attack on pro-life...on free speech...on Christianity. It’s kind of an attack on the whole community”) David Hall (aged 42, information technologist with the Federal Social Security Administration in Champaign, reported on September 15, 2016 to have been suspended without pay after refusing to watch a LGBTQ 'diversity and inclusivity' video, said that other employees shared his opinion but feared reprisal) Patriarch Dinkha IV (sent a letter on October 25, 2012 from Mountain Grove to the UN calling for an end to sectarian violence in the Middle East; unable to travel with five other patriarchs to Erbil, Iraq on August 20, 2014 from Chicago due to severe illness; hospitalized with influenza on January 12, 2015, developed respiratory distress, discharged into a rehab facility on February 5, 2015; aged 79, died of natural causes on March 26, 2015 at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota) Bishop Gewargis Younan (said on August 24, 2015 in Chicago "He [Robert DeKelaita] escaped persecution as a child, and resettled in the United States. He had every reason to fail, but instead he went on to graduate from the prestigious University of Chicago and ultimately was considered the best attorney for Middle Eastern Christians. His entire career has been aimed at giving back - to his church, to his heritage, to his people. He is a role model for members of our community, both American-born and immigrants. I can say with confidence that every parishioner in our church has either themselves been represented by Mr DeKelaita, or has a relative that was represented by him. When the charges were filed, the community was in outrage and disbelief, and rightfully so. There is not a single Assyrian family anywhere in Iraq or Syria that has not been directly impacted by religious persecution. The manner in which Mr DeKelaita's case has been approached seemingly moves to challenge this truth. We are proud of Mr DeKelaita's achievements, and will continue to support him during this time") Eric Scheidler (pro-life activist, son of Joe Scheidler, arrested for trespass on April 15, 2015 at Chicago’s Navy Pier, video of him being given access to the city owned facility by security seized by police and not returned) Emmanuel Fleming (aged 34, father of three boys under the age of 10, usher, shot dead on his church steps in Chicago) Cardinal Francis George OMI (wrote in Chicago on September 7, 2014 "...many Catholics in the American colonies thought their life might be better in the new country than under a regime whose ruling class had penalized and persecuted them since the mid-16th century. They made this new country their own and served her loyally. The social history was often contentious, but the State basically kept its promise to protect all religions and not become a rival to them, a fake church. Until recent years...Swimming against the tide means limiting one’s access to positions of prestige and power in society. It means that those who choose to live by the Catholic faith will not be welcomed as political candidates to national office, will not sit on editorial boards of major newspapers, will not be at home on most university faculties, will not have successful careers as actors and entertainers. Nor will their children, who will also be suspect. Since all public institutions, no matter who owns or operates them, will be agents of the government and conform their activities to the demands of the official religion, the practice of medicine and law will become more difficult for faithful Catholics. It already means in some States that those who run businesses must conform their activities to the official religion or be fined..."; died of cancer on April 17, 2015 in Chicago) Joe Scheidler (anti-abortion activist, has finally prevailed on April 29, 2014 in a 28 year-long lawsuit brought against him by the National Organization of Women, the original verdict against him was thrice overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago has refused NOW's attempts to continue the case) Mary Stachowicz (Polish immigrant, strangled to death on November 13, 2002 in Chicago by a homosexual coworker after she asked him why he slept with men, the coworker hid her body and later joined with her family in prayer for her safe recovery) Michael Swift (aged 46, shot dead on church steps in Chicago) Mimi Odicho (Assyrian immigrant, said on August 24, 2015 in Chicago "My sister and her three young children are among the Assyrian hostages in Syria. We don't even know if they're still alive. Instead of trying to help save them - save these innocent people - the U.S. government is trying to take down a man who has been our people's only hope for years. Robert [DeKelaita] is our hero. I don't think anyone could possibly understand what he means to us") Narsai Oshana (Assyrian immigrant, said on August 24, 2015 in Chicago "I think our community finds hope in Robert [DeKelaita] because he is an attorney that is not foreign to our part of the world, to our plight and our history. He knows exactly what we have endured, because he's lived it himself. He represented me in my asylum claim when I didn't have any way to pay him except with thanks. That was enough for him. I will never forget that. To me, like many, Robert was light at the end of a very long, horrid tunnel. His name is known everywhere. I am forever indebted to him") Fr Paul John Kalchik (sexual abuse victim, GoFundMe account for financial support closed for unspecified violations of Terms & Conditions on October 9, 2018, the account had been opened by supporters following his suspension and eviction by Chicago Cardinal Blaise Cupich [which happened after he allowed his parishioners to burn a rainbow flag]) Ramon Michael (Assyrian immigrant, said on August 24, 2015 in Chicago "Dangerous people are allowed to come in across our borders and these people [Assyrian asylum seekers], I'd let these people babysit my kids, that's how much I fear these people. Something is up. I don't know what, but it seems to be very anti-Christian to me...[There was an inaccurate and outdated European report that] was saying there is no persecution of Christians in Iraq and for many years [the immigration courts] were using that to deny asylum and Robert was able to get that stopped, and that was when things started going bad for him. He was able to make a pretty substantial impact if judges were no longer able to cite that report") Rev Reginald Bachus (said after the shootings of two men [one an usher] at his Chicago church on August 13, 2017 "They were on their way up the steps to the church, and two gentlemen ran up from Jackson [Boulevard] and basically unloaded on them. It's just hard for me to believe that something like this could happen on a Sunday morning. Two young men on their way to church. ... I think that's the hardest part for me to grasp") Robert DeKelaita (aged 52, husband of Ester, father of two sons, immigration attorney, indicted in September 2014 on charges of making false allegations of religious persecution on asylum requests of Christians from Egypt, Iraq, and Syria, said on August 24, 2015 in Chicago "The way that some of our federal judges view the plight of Christians in Iraq and the way some of the adjudicators view them, you would honestly think 'what is wrong with these people?' Why can't they see what the rest of the world sees?") Ryan Bomberger (Radiance Foundation, attacked in an email by Wheaton College student government leaders as having caused an ‘unsafe’ environment after giving a November 14, 2018 presentation entitled “Black Lives Matter In and Out of the Womb”) Sr Tracey Matthia Dugas FSP (Chicago bookstore vandalized on May 31, 2020)

United States - Indiana Amanda Blackburn (aged 28, wife of Pastor Davey Blackburn, 13 weeks pregnant, shot dead during a November 10, 2015 home invasion and burglary in Indianapolis, had been sexually assaulted) Pastor Brad Flaskamp (reported on the beheading of a statue of Jesus in Indianapolis on February 10, 2017; reported on the second beheading of the statue of Jesus in Indianapolis on February 10, 2017 “It makes me sad that somebody would do something like that. I was hoping it was just a random act to destroy it in the first place. I can tell you that I don't think it's kids. It would have to be a kid that can wield a sledgehammer...I'd say we love you, we'd love to have the statue head back and we'd love to have you in our church. We'd welcome them, we'd forgive them") Crystal O’Connor (aged 21, daughter of Kevin O’Connor, pizza business in Walkerton forced to close after receiving death and firebombing threats following March 31, 2015 media misrepresentations of an offhand defense of traditional marriage as a denial of service to homosexual customers, entry on Google maps hacked and replaced with a 'Gay Jesus' avatar, in hiding) Pastor Davey Blackburn (widower of Amanda Blackburn) Fr Doug Marcotte (reported on the 'Quran 3:151' graffiti which appeared on his Columbus church on August 31, 2014, two other churches also targeted) Kevin O’Connor (father of Crystal O’Connor, pizza business in Walkerton forced to close after receiving death and firebombing threats following March 31, 2015 media misrepresentations of an offhand defense of traditional marriage as a denial of service to homosexual customers, entry on Google maps hacked and replaced with a 'Gay Jesus' avatar, in hiding) Linda G Summers (county clerk in Corydon, fired in December 2014 for requesting a religious accommodation for same sex marriage license issuance, has brought suit)

United States - Iowa Rev Al Henderson (aged 64, found unresponsive outside his Fort Dodge church with injuries consistent with an assault on October 2, 2019, hospitalized, died) Betty Odgaards (owner of a gift shop and bisto, as of January 30, 2015 has decided to no longer host weddings because she would have to host same sex weddings, said she would continue to serve same sex couples for non-wedding events) Bob Eschliman (newspaper editor in Des Moines, fired on May 5, 2014 for criticizing the 'Queen James Bible' which attempts to rewrite the Bible into a homosexual-friendly text, has brought a religious discrimination lawsuit) Donna Holman (aged 79, arrested on March 11, 2014 for demonstrating outside a Keokuk abortion clinic) Jake Estell (member of the Business Leaders in Christ at the University of Iowa, the organization prevailed in Federal court in Des Moines on February 6, 2019 against the banning of the group by the University, said “We are grateful the court protected our rights today—to let us have the same right as all student groups to express our viewpoints freely on campus") Kristina Schrock (InterVarsity Graduate Christian Fellowship president, brought suit in Federal Court in Des Moines on August 6, 2018 against the University of Iowa in Iowa City after it decertified all student groups that had restrictions on officers including adherence to an article of faith; thanked the Federal court in Des Moines when it ruled in favor of Business Leaders in Christ on February 6, 2019, her Fellowship's suit is still pending) Richard Odgaards (owner of a gift shop and bisto, as of January 30, 2015 has decided to no longer host weddings because he would have to host same sex weddings, said he would continue to serve same sex couples for non-wedding events)

United States - Kansas Brian Bergkamp (aged 24, seminarian, on July 9, 2016 rescued a woman from drowning in the Arkansas River but was then pulled under; body found on July 28, 2016) Jimmy Schibi (seminarian, said of Brian Bergkamp “He gave up his life to be a priest, but before he could do that, he gave up his life for another. Probably one of the most selfless individuals that I’d ever met”) Mark Gietzen (pro-life demonstrator, attacked on November 21, 2013 by a male abortion clinic client in Wichita and threatened with being shot, attacker was subdued by a clinic security guard) Fr Mark Mertes (reported on the October 21, 2016 attack against Fr Tom Kearns) Mary Anne Sause (retired nurse, ordered by police to cease silent prayer during a November 22, 2013 search of her Louisburg home during investigation of a noise complaint; the U.S. Supreme Court on June 28, 2018 reversed an appellate court decision that held she had experienced no police infringement of her right to free exercise of religion) Fr Tom Kearns (aged 82, beaten unconscious outside his Kansas City church on October 21, 2016, wallet and automobile stolen, hospitalized, will require surgery to repair his eye socket)

United States - Kentucky Alicia Bell (said of the August 14, 2016 stabbing of David Buckley in her Bowling Green church "It's scary, but in today's society this can happen anywhere...I'm praying for anybody that was hurt") Bennie Berry (aged 43, church leader on Louisville, shot while leaving church on August 26, 2018, hospitalized, died) Blaine Adamson (print shop owner in Lexington, declined to print T-shirts which promoted a gay pride event in 2012, ordered to attend diversity training by a county human rights commission; order reversed by a circuit court; court decision upheld by the state Court of Appeals in his favor; the state Supreme Court in Frankfort held on October 31, 2019 that he could not be forced under anti-discrimination law to print shirts against his beliefs) Brent Duvall (said of the August 14, 2016 stabbing of David Buckley in his Bowling Green church "I was praying at the altar when I heard a commotion. I thought it was someone going into cardiac arrest or a seizure. I found out it wasn't that. It's a lost and fallen world we live in. It shouldn't surprise us") Casey Davis (Casey county clerk, said on September 4, 2015 he will not issue same sex marriage licenses, is currently away on vacation, proposed to the legislature that the officiator of a wedding issue the license) David Buckley (aged 40, stabbed in the neck in church in Bowling Green on August 14, 2016 by his son, hospitalized) David Snardon (church minister, said of the August 26, 2018 shooting of Bennie Berry "It just brings up a lot of questions — concern for the pastor, concern for the church, and concern for the community that something can happen on the sacred day, in a sacred place — with someone coming out of the church in broad daylight with a total disregard for human life...Crimes are not just committed against individuals, they are committed against communities") Rev David Wells (reported on July 25, 2015 to have been dismissed as a volunteer religious counsellor for state youth services after declining to sign a form stating that he would not describe homosexual activity as 'sinful') Pastor Jeff Griffith (said of Ruthie Carolyn New "She supported me, supported the new pastor, supported my wife. She was 100 percent a Christian lady") Jonathan New (son of Ruthie Carolyn New) Archbishop Joseph E Kurtz (signed the joint statement "Created Male and Female: An Open Letter from Religious Leaders" which on December 15, 2017 condemned gender ideology; issued a statement deploring the May 29, 2020 vandalism of the Louisville cathedral residence) Kim Davis (aged 49, Rowan county clerk, jailed on September 3, 2015 for contempt of court for refusing to issue same sex marriage licenses, court denied her request to remove her pro forma signature from the licenses, still being held despite the fact her office has complied with the law by issuing licenses, appeal underway; released on September 8, 2015: a suit against her by the American Civil Liberties Union was declared moot on April 19, 2016 after the state legislature passed legislation granting her the accommodation she sought; on March 9, 2017 a Federal judge denied the American Civil Liberties Union claim that she pay their court costs totaling $231,000 because their suit against her did not prevail) Kristan Hawkins (Students for Life of America president, condemned the January 29, 2018 vandalism of a pro-life display on Bellarmine University, Louisville campus) Nick Sandmann (parochial high school student in Covington, received death threats along with his family after returning home two days earlier from the January 20, 2010 March for Life in Washington DC, the threats originated from a video in which he was confronted by a Native American protestor st th Lincoln Memorial and from which several media outlets characterized his actions as racist, wrote in a statement "I was not intentionally making faces at the protestor. I did smile at one point because I wanted him to know that I was not going to become angry, intimidated or be provoked into a larger confrontation. I am a faithful Christian and practicing Catholic, and I always try to live up to the ideals my faith teaches me - to remain respectful of others, and to take no action that would lead to conflict or violence") Polly Neace (fired from her position as a bank teller in Walton in 2012 for wishing customers "a blessed day") Ruthie Carolyn New (aged 70, widow of Pastor J S New, mother of Jonathan New and Richard New, murdered in her church in Somerset on August 24, 2017) Pastor Vincent James (made no comment on the August 26, 2018 shooting of Bennie Berry)

United States - Louisiana Anna Harrington (wife of Fr Matthew Harrington, delivered her fourth child Irene one month early on July 21, 2015 in a complicated surgery, received 31 units of blood) Rev Gerald Toussaint (church in Opelousas was destroyed on April 4, 2019 in what was determined to be an arson attack, a neopagan / Satanist was later arrested, said “We don’t know who did it so if you put race in it and it turns out to be something else, it makes it look like we’re pushing towards that. I just want to find who did it and then why they did it. And then we’ll go from there. They might have destroyed the building but they didn’t stop the church. So we have got to keep on going...There’s an atmosphere that says we need to support the flag, we need to respect the flag. And they don’t realize, I’m a veteran. I spent seven years for my country. And this is what people do to a person who has spent their time fighting for their country. It’s heartbreaking. Because I love this country. I wasn’t born in Africa. I was born in Opelousas, Louisiana. That’s all I know. My daddy pastored here for 21 years. After he left, I came. And so, that’s 30-something years of service to these people”) Rev Harry J. Richard (church in Opelousas was destroyed on April 2, 2019 in what was determined to be an arson attack, a neopagan / Satanist was later arrested, said “They burned down a building. They didn’t burn down our spirit”) Irene Harrington (as of July 21, 2015 is the newborn daughter of Anna and Fr Matthew Harrington, diagnosed with hemifacial microsomia) Fr Jeff Bayhi (ordered by the state supreme court to divulge the contents of a confession made in East Feliciana, his diocese has condemned the ruling as of July 7, 2014 and stated that it will not comply; appeal declined by the U.S. Supreme Court on January 21, 2015, a hearing will now be held to determine if he must be compelled to testify; a state court ruled on February 26, 2016 that the state cannot compel the disclosure of a confession) Dr Jennifer Roback Morse (Ruth Institute president, organization has repeatedly been dropped from online fundraising companies on discrimination grounds, said on or before December 22, 2017 “[Our] primary focus is family breakdown and its impact on children: understanding it, healing it, ending it. If this makes us a ‘hate group,’ so be it") John T Landry (church trustee, church in Abbeville vandalized by satanic graffiti on January 4, 2020, said "Vandals came and defaced our statue of [St. Therese]. It's sad that it's not a random act of graffiti that some kids did. These are cult paintings, satanic cult, 666, an upside down cross. Churches are places of peace and solitude and prayer. To see someone that malicious to not only put graffiti, but to put the devil's work and signature on a Christian statue, is horrible") Joseph La Rue (legal counsel opposing a September 24, 2012 New Orleans ban on religious speech on Bourbon Street) Michael Sprague (state chaplain, booed during his opening prayer at a February 22, 2017 town hall meeting in Metairie, a veteran who led the Pledge of Allegiance was also booed, said “I’ve never been shouted down throughout a time of prayer like that. I’ve never been in a situation like that. It’s sad there wasn’t honor and respect for God...People ask me all the time if I am mad at the people seemingly speaking out against God and Jesus. My answer is that I’m not mad, but I am sad that it has come to this in our country...We need to remember that Jesus has been booed many, many times and He will be booed again”) Monica Harris (aged 57, church in Opelousas was destroyed on April 2, 2019 in what was determined to be an arson attack, a neopagan / Satanist was later arrested, said “Seeing the church in the condition it is now, it’s almost like losing a family member”)

United States - Maine Freddy C Cyrille Akoa (aged 49, church minister, beaten to death by three Muslim immigrants in Portland on August 9, 2015)

United States - Maryland Brandon Jenkins (as of April 25, 2014 has been denied a college admission in Baltimore county after he admitted he was a Christian) Sr Constance Carolyn Veit (has said on December 19, 2012 in Baltimore that her religious order will be forced to leave the U.S. if the healthcare reform contraceptive and abortion mandate is upheld) Mother Loraine Marie Clare Maguire (said on September 24, 2013 in Baltimore that her religious order cannot comply with the Affordable Care Act's abortion mandate, even if it means their order potentially will be fined millions of dollars in violations) Archbishop William E Lori (on September 14, 2016 condemned anti-religious comments by the chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights that attacked religious liberty as 'hypocrisy' and 'code words for discrimination, intolerance, racism, sexism, homophobia, Islamophobia or any form of intolerance': “These statements painting those who support religious freedom with the broad brush of bigotry are reckless and reveal a profound disregard for the religious foundations of his own work...He makes the shocking suggestion that Catholic, evangelical, orthodox Jewish, Mormon, and Muslim communities are comparable to fringe segregationists from the civil rights era...Rest assured, if people of faith continue to be marginalized, it is the poor and vulnerable, not the Chairman and his friends, who will suffer”)

United States - Massachusetts Prof Adam J MacLeod (on August 5, 2014 criticized the New England Association of Schools and Colleges announcement to review the accreditation of Gordon College in Wenham after the school filed for a waiver on religious grounds to President Obama's homosexual rights executive order) Fr Allen Rash (asked for the return of the original infant Jesus figurine that was stolen from a manger on December 25, 2014 in Haverhill and replaced with the head of a pig) Arthur Argeros (parish council president, Lynn church including icons vandalized with satanic and anarchic graffiti on September 8, 2019said “Somebody has got a sick mind to think this is okay”) Brenda Burns (donated an infant Jesus figurine to replace the one stolen from a manger on December 25, 2014 in Haverhill and replaced with the head of a pig) Fr Daniel Moloney (forced to resign on June 9, 2020 as a chaplain at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge after he sent an email to Catholic students in which he wrote on traditional Christian theology regarding charity, judgement and sin as applied to a recent police brutality case) Francis Harman (wife of Pastor Lee Harmon) Fr George Tsoukalas (Lynn church including icons vandalized with satanic and anarchic graffiti on September 8, 2019) Pastor Lee Harmon (aged 74, husband of Francis Harman, beaten to death with a hammer on August 20, 2013 in Brockton while delivering food to his daughter) Mary Darcy (aged 75, parishioner, statue of Jesus beheaded in Waltham on May 3, 2021, said “It’s very upsetting to think that somebody would desecrate a statue”) Fr Michael Drea (senior chaplain at the Harvard Catholic Student Association in Cambridge, on May 8, 2014 protested the decision of the Harvard Extension Cultural Studies Club to host a Black Mass led by a Satanist, said the decision showed “a complete lack of respect...It’s a matter of hatred. It’s an affront to our Catholic sensibilities. For anyone to try to veil this under the guise of academic freedom is sadly mistaken and misinformed”, also said that he will lead a prayer vigil to coincide with the Black Mass) Fr Michael Nolan (statue of Jesus beheaded in Waltham on May 3, 2021, said “It's possible that it's an attack on the faith, a more direct attack on the faith, and a more serious act of sacrilege as opposed to...vandalism”) Mother Olga (described the August 21, 2016 armed robbery perpetrated in Quincy against a nun from her community, said of the perpetrators “I was immediately concerned to make sure that they would get the help and that they will get the resources that they need because my heart goes after them”) Pastor Scott Lively (sued by a homosexual group for allegedly inciting ‘a dozen minor incidents’ of persecution against homosexuals in Uganda over the past decade, he denies the charges, a Federal judge has ruled on August 28, 2013 that the trial may proceed; petition for dismissal denied on December 5, 2014 by a three judge panel of the Federal First Circuit Court in Boston; suit dismissed in Springfield on June 6, 2017, issued a statement which noted the judge’s 4 year delay after a 2013 U.S. Supreme Court ruling eliminated the statutory basis for the suit) Rev Dr Terrlyn L Curry Avery (Springfield church destroyed in a December 28, 2020 arson attack)

United States - Michigan Bridget Tennes (wife of Steve Tennes) Carrie DeKlyen (aged 37, wife of Nick DeKlyen, mother of six, died of brain cancer on September 9, 2017, had decided against aggressive treatments due to pregnancy) Christine Niles (reported that Christmas carolers at a city of Ferndale approved nativity were disrupted on December 20, 2017 by two-dozen atheists and Satanists with a bullhorn singing obscene parodies of carols and offering free donuts in exchange for worshiping Satan, said “What surprised me were the number of Satanists who showed up, wearing pentagrams and signs with the demon Baphomet, handing out satanic Christmas cards. There is a Satanic Temple in Detroit, and we've had run-ins with them before...All throughout our traditional Christmas carols, the protesters tried to drown out our caroling shouting blasphemies and anti-Catholic slurs, ‘Nazi punks,’ ‘Hail Contraception,’ ‘Hail Satan,’ and obscenities...Atheists also mocked us for our belief in Christ and mocked Christ Himself. They didn't seem to care that there were little children present as they cursed. A ‘transgender’ couple stood in full view of our group, including of the children, and started kissing”) Christine Weick (hit in the face with a slushie on May 11, 2014 in Grandville after demonstrating in favor of traditional families) Pastor Derek Hagland (shouted down while giving an invocation at an April 20, 2017 town meeting in Gaylord) Fr Don LaCuesta (sued on November 14, 2019 for stating Christian beliefs about suicide at the funeral of a suicide victim) George Saieg (awarded legal fees after prevailing in a Federal civil rights lawsuit against the city of Dearborn, which had barred him from handing out Christian literature at a public Arab festival) Ghandi Shaba (aged 40, brother of Ghiyda Salman, facing deportation to Iraq, came to the U.S. in 1983 at age 5, said near Detroit on or before October 11, 2017 "I only know American life, I have always identified as American. I don't remember Iraq and never studied Arabic. All my family is here, and all but one of my family are U.S. citizens. I don't know how I would survive in Iraq - I couldn't even communicate there - and even if I did, it wouldn't be for long. I would be killed. Christians are a minority there") Ghiyda Salman (sister of Ghandi Shaba, said near Detroit on or before October 11, 2017 "We live in fear for Ghandi. Yes, he was guilty of bad judgment as a young teen and he hung with the wrong crowd. But every day now he's scared about what will happen and when. He spends much of his time praying") Hadeel Khalasawi (husband of Sumar, father of Mariano and Malano, stepfather of Marcella, immigrated from Iraq at aged 4, former teen felon, detained in Macomb county, as of September 8, 2017 faces deportation to Iraq and possible death once he arrives) Pastor Jeremy Schossau (reported on February 5, 2018 to have received death threats for having hosted a sexual identity workshop in Metro City for teen girls) Jony Jarjiss (aged 58, father, grandfather, , Iraqi citizen, continued to face deportation as of February 8, 2018, home near Detroit foreclosed upon during his detention) Lindsey Hamama (aged 12, daughter of Usama "Sam" Hamama) Life Lynn DeKlyen (daughter of Carrie and Nick DeKlyen, born September 6, 2017; died on September 20, 2017 aged 14 days) Malano (son of Sumar and Hadeel Khalasawi) Marcella (daughter of Sumar and stepdaughter of Hadeel Khalasawi) Mariano (son of Sumar and Hadeel Khalasawi) Mukhlis Murad (aged 59, father of Summer, grandfather, Iraqi citizen, continued to face deportation as of February 8, 2018) Nadir Jawad (aged 44, Iraqi citizen, continued to face deportation as of February 8, 2018) Nick DeKlyen (husband of Carrie DeKlyen, father of six, said "We love the Lord with everything in us. We talked about it, prayed about it...Under no circumstance do we believe you should take a child’s life. She sacrificed her life for the child") Fr Scott Nolan (aged 33, attacked in the media in Grand Rapids on November 26, 2019 for privately asking a judge in a civil same sex marriage to not take Communion) Steve Tennes (farmer, husband of Bridget Tennes, banned in March 2017 from a farmer's market in East Lansing due to his Facebook posts in support of traditional marriage and refusal to host same sex weddings on his farm; a Federal court on September 15, 2017 issued an injunction against the municipal ordinance that banned him) Sumar (wife of Hadeel Khalasawi, said in Macomb county on or before September 8, 2017 "[The government] should have deported them from day one after they committed their crimes. If they didn't want them in this country, they should have sent them back, not let them go and after 20 or 30 years come and snatch them away from us and break our hearts...My husband did make mistakes. He paid for his crimes. They let him out. He started a family. And now they just came after we built this life together...Eventually he's going to get killed. My husband has tattoos of Christianity. He's a target there after he goes there") Thomas Brejcha (President and Chief Counsel of Thomas More Society, said on December 3, 2013 of the American Civil Liberties Union after it brought a suit against the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops for requiring Catholic hospitals to refrain from performing abortions “They are certainly trying to strike a body blow against religious freedom. They are coming at the Church in a way that seems to clash against religious liberty and the First Amendment”) Usama "Sam" Hamama (father of Lindsey Hamama, supermarket manager near Detroit, as of December 20, 2017 is facing deportation to Iraq for a prior conviction, came to the U.S. in the 1970's as a child)

United States - Minnesota Ann (verbally assaulted on October 18, 2013 by a male client of a St Paul abortion clinic) Brian Gibson (physically assaulted on October 18, 2013 by a male client of a St Paul abortion clinic after he asked the man to stop verbally assaulting Ann, called police, perpetrator charged) Mae Desaire (church communications director, commented on church damage including burnt pews during the May 29, 2020 rioting in Minneapolis: “Our damage in comparison to what is going in the city is really just minimal, and we’d really like to focus on that”) RayVell Carter (aged 41, nephew of Rev William Land Sr, shot dead in front of his father and 8 year old daughter while leaving a church Bible study in St Paul on September 18, 2019) Rev William Land Sr (uncle of RayVell Carter)

United States - Mississippi Pastor Anthony Finch Longino (aged 63, shot dead while opening his Jackson church for services on January 13, 2018 in a robbery attempt) Rev Carilyn F Hudson (Greenville church heavily damaged in a November 2, 2016 arson attack with political overtones, said "Our hearts are broken, but we are not angry. We are saddened, but we do know that all things work together for good to those that love the Lord") Fr Greg Plata (said after the August 25, 2016 murder of Sisters Margaret Held and Paula Merrill "Both were really down to earth. There was no phony spirituality. They were the real McCoy. They had a deep love of scripture") Pastor Jerry Waldrop (church in Holly Springs destroyed in a May 20, 2020 arson attack following his opposition to the state COVID-19 stay-at-home order) Linda Barnette (circuit court clerk in Grenada, resigned her position of 24 years on June 30, 2015 rather than grant wedding licenses for same-sex marriage, said "The Supreme Court's decision violates my core values as a Christian. My final authority is the Bible. I cannot in all good conscience issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples under my name because the Bible clearly teaches that homosexuality is contrary to God's plan and purpose for marriage and family...I choose to obey God rather than man") Sr Margaret Held SSSF (nurse practitioner, murdered in her home in Durant during an August 25, 2016 robbery) Sr Paula Merrill SCN (nurse practitioner, murdered in her home in Durant during an August 25, 2016 robbery) Sr Susan Gatz SCN (asked that all “pray in gratitude for the precious lives of Sisters Paula [Merrill] and Margaret [Held]...they served the poor so well. Because we are gospel women, please also pray for the perpetrators”)

United States - Missouri Ali Bahkti (convert near St. Louis, former Islamic Revolutionary Guard, subject of a fatwa from Iran on June 19, 2012 which calls for his death) Andrew Cash (graduate student, reported on April 21, 2016 to have been dismissed from a master's program in counselling after stating his religious beliefs would require him to refer same-gender couples to another counselor, has filed a discrimination lawsuit against Missouri State University) Pastor Carlton Lee (church in Ferguson destroyed by arson on November 25, 2014, has received death threats) Pastor D'Eric Fields (issued a statement thanking Montell Bruce for his actions on May 21, 2017 in which he defended their church from a gunman) Gregg Schmidt (widower of Jamie Schmidt) James S Diel III (vice president of a St Louis Christian retirement home, reported on August 23, 2018 to have said that the home's board is "prayerfully and thoughtfully reviewing this issue" after it was sued by a same sex couple because it required married residents to follow the traditional Christian definition of marriage) Jamie Schmidt (aged 53, wife of Gregg Schmidt, mother of three, shot dead while shopping in a religious goods store in Ballwin on November 20, 2018, the attack was not due to robbery or other material crime) John Ryan (arrested on December 31, 2016 on domestic terrorism charges while standing on a sidewalk outside a St Louis abortion clinic, clinic was searched for explosives but was not evacuated, released on his own recognizance the following day, the arrest was allegedly made to justify newly proposed anti-protest legislation) Pastor Kent Hogan (National Guard unit refused permission to be honored at Vacation Bible School in Carthage as of July 25, 2014) Loyal Grandstaff (aged 12, reported on January 7, 2014 that he had been told by his public middle school teacher that he could not read a Bible during free time, the principal said that Bibles are not prohibited from school and would investigate) Pastor Mike Salazar (pastor for Ali Bahkti near St. Louis, subject of a fatwa from Iran on June 19, 2012 which calls for his death) Montell Bruce (father, church greeter, shot in the head on May 21, 2017 while attempting to stop a gunman who had entered his Kansas City church, not seriously injured)

United States - Nebraska Brian C Buescher (Federal Court nominee, accused in a December 5, 2018 letter of bias toward "extreme positions" by Senators Mazie Hirono and Kamala Harris for his continuing membership in the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic fraternal and charitable organization that upholds traditional Christian beliefs) Calvin Pals (aged 2 months, son of missionaries Jamison and Kathryne Pals, died in a July 31, 2016 traffic accident near Brule) Ezra Pals (aged 3, son of missionaries Jamison and Kathryne Pals, died in a July 31, 2016 traffic accident near Brule) Gordy Engel (father of Kathryne Pals) Bishop James D Conley (signed the joint statement "Created Male and Female: An Open Letter from Religious Leaders" which on December 15, 2017 condemned gender ideology) Fr James Netusil (described the video of an August 16, 2015 criminal attack on a 76 year old parishioner in the church vestibule in Omaha “After the first kid grabbed her purse, the second one hits her, and there’s no point to it. It was just evil”) Jamison Pals (aged 29, died in a July 31, 2016 traffic accident near Brule while travelling for his final training to become a missionary in Japan) Kathryne Pals (aged 29, died in a July 31, 2016 traffic accident near Brule while travelling for her final training to become a missionary in Japan) Nancy (mother of Kathryne Pals, said "The last time we saw Jamison and Kathryne, we got together and held hands and prayed with them...That was the last time we saw them") Violet Pals (aged 23 months, daughter of missionaries Jamison and Kathryne Pals, died in a July 31, 2016 traffic accident near Brule)

United States - Nevada Fr Gerald R Grupczynski SCHR (church in Las Vegas invaded on December 5, 2015 by men claiming to be Christian converts from Islam, Masses disrupted) Mackenzie Frasier (aged 12, prohibited by her teacher in Shelby county in May 2015 from using a Bible quotation in an assignment entitled 'All About Me', the school administration later apologized and allowed the assignment to be resubmitted with the quote) Fr Richard Philiposki SCHR (church in Las Vegas invaded on December 5, 2015 by men claiming to be Christian converts from Islam, Masses disrupted) Sonia Perez (aged 56, hotel housekeeper in Las Vegas, reported on June 10, 2020 to have been fired after she refused to work on Sundays) Fr Tomasz Ludwicki SCHR (church in Las Vegas invaded on December 5, 2015 by men claiming to be Christian converts from Islam, Masses disrupted)

United States - New Hampshire Eva Lumangkun (wife of Meldy Lumangkun, Indonesian citizen, asylum seeker facing deportation to Indonesia as of October 16, 2017, said "We are afraid to go home. We fear for the safety of our children. Here our children can live safely") Freddy Sombah (aged 60-plus, husband of Poppy Sombah, father of Timothy Sombah, factory worker, Indonesian citizen, denied refugee status, deportation halted by a Federal court on September 27, 2017) Jacklyn Lele (aged 37, Indonesian citizen, had fled Indonesia after her brother was killed, asylum seeker facing deportation to Indonesia as of October 16, 2017, said "My son [who was born in the U.S.] does not really want to go over there, he keeps saying 'I'm American,'") Meldy Lumangkun (husband of Eva Lumangkun, Indonesian citizen, asylum seeker facing deportation to Indonesia as of October 16, 2017) Poppy Sombah (aged 60-plus, wife of Freddy Sombah, mother of Timothy Sombah, factory worker, Indonesian citizen, denied refugee status, deportation halted by a Federal court on September 27, 2017) Terry Rombot (Indonesian refugee, had fled Indonesia due to persecution, reported on August 26, 2017 to have been denied asylum, detained, held for deportation) Timothy Sombah (aged 29, son of Freddy and Poppy Sombah, Indonesian citizen, denied refugee status, as a DACA applicant will be safe from deportation until 2019)

United States - New Jersey Amgad A Konds (aged 27, Egyptian immigrant, beheaded on February 5, 2013 in Jersey City) Arthur Jemmy (aged 40, husband of Silfia Tobing, Indonesian citizen, asylum seeker facing deportation to Indonesia from Highland Park as of October 10, 2017, unable to work due to surgery following a workplace accident; as of January 25, 2018 had taken 'refuge' from immigration officials in a church in Highland Park) Fr Edwin Leahy OSB (assaulted by a mentally ill man while in church in Newark on April 24, 2016, said "People like this, who suffer, don't tend to take their medication. So they are dangerous to themselves and to somebody else") Hanny F Tawadros (aged 25, Egyptian immigrant, beheaded on February 5, 2013 in Jersey City) Harry Pangemanan (husband of Yana Pangemanan, as of December 25, 2012 is facing deportation from Highland Park to Indonesia; took 'refuge' from immigration officials in a church in Highland Park on January 25, 2018) Pastor Jonathan Cahn (video entitled “Prophetic Message To Joe Biden” shadowbanned [i.e., deleted from search engine query results] by Google and YouTube on January 25, 2021, YouTube reversed the shadowban days later, but Goggle did not) Auxiliary Bishop Manuel Cruz (struck in the face at the beginning of Mass, motive unknown) Joan Simon (fired from her Jersey City Catholic school on October 9, 2018 after circulating a letter written by an orthodox Catholic theologian on the current sex abuse scandals) Fr Martin Rooney (Catholic hospital director of pastoral care, reported on January 6, 2017 to have been sued along with the Paterson hospital after denying surgery for gender reassignment) Patricia Jannuzzi (aged 57, parochial high school religious teacher in Somerville, effectively fired from her teaching position on March 12, 2015 for commenting on Facebook that arguments in favor of same sex marriage were “bologna”; reinstated on April 10, 2015, principal called the media coverage of her position “erroneous and hurtful”) Fr Philip Waters (witnessed the April 24, 2016 assault on Fr Edwin Leahy, aided Newark police in the arrest of the perpetrator) Saul Timisela (sought church sanctuary to avoid deportation to Indonesia which he fled after attacks on churches, is seeking legislative relief from Congress) Silfia Tobing (wife of Arthur Jemmy, Indonesian citizen, asylum seeker facing deportation to Indonesia from Highland Park as of October 10, 2017) Rev Wil Wilson (church organ in Freehold destroyed on January 21, 2020 in an act of attempted theft or vandalism) Yana Pangemanan (wife of Harry Pangemanan, as of December 25, 2012 is facing deportation from Highland Park to Indonesia which she had fled due to anti-Christian and anti-Chinese rioting) Yohannes Tasik (Indonesian citizen, asylum seeker facing deportation to Indonesia, as of January 25, 2018 had taken 'refuge' from immigration officials in a church in Highland Park)

United States - New Mexico Ann Marie Sullivan (college student, church in Las Cruces targeted by an explosive device on August 2, 2015, said "It sounded like something had fallen off and shattered the glass in the back") Deacon David McNeill Jr (said the diocese will be reviewing security practices in all churches after two churches in Las Cruces were targeted by explosive devices on August 2, 2015) Dennis Llewellyn (former Marine, church in Las Cruces targeted by an explosive device on August 2, 2015, said "It was a real bomb, I saw all the parts", helped keep parishioners away until police arrived) Dominique Davis (center director, said "Authorities notified us around midnight [on November 23, 2016] that there was a break-in and fire in our [Albuquerque] facility, leading fire Marshalls to call the FBI, who confirmed this was an act of arson...The first fire was started inside the Holy Innocents chapel, which destroyed the chapel. The second fire was located in the foyer where our literature and signs were displayed. The extent of the damages has still not been confirmed, although the facility has suffered great damage and currently has no power. Due to the damages and the current investigation, Project Defending Life will be shut down until further notice") Elaine Huguenin (lost a court appeal on June 5, 2012 in Albuquerque over her refusal to photograph a same sex wedding) Fr John Anderson (church in Las Cruces targeted by an explosive device on August 2, 2015, said "I was right in the middle of saying the words 'take and eat, this is my body' and there was a 'pow!' I mean, I knew it had to be more than a gunshot. It didn't know if it was a shotgun blast, I didn't know what. But it was very loud and I just kept on saying the words") Pastor Kevin Glenn (wrote on Facebook after a bomb exploded at his church in Las Cruces on August 2, 2015 “A house of worship should be a place of peace, making the act of violence especially troubling for us all. Only our Lord is able to provide ultimate security to each of us through Jesus Christ. However, in our daily lives we must be wise and vigilant to do everything possible to provide an environment within which all can feel both welcome and secure”) Colonel Leland B H Bohannon (as of October 20, 2017 has been stripped of his command at Kirtland Air Force Base and promotion to Brigadier General reversed after he declined to sign a thank you certificate for a retiring airman and his husband, had obtained the signature of a superior officer in an approved religious accommodation; subject of am April 2, 2018 letter for the Secretary of the Air Force to Congress which stated "[Col Leland Bohannon] had the right to exercise his sincerely held religious beliefs and did not unlawfully discriminate when he declined to sign the certificate...The Air Force has a duty to treat people fairly and without discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, or sexual orientation and [Bohannon] met that duty by having a more senior officer sign the certificate”) Mike Stewart (church in Las Cruces targeted by an explosive device on August 2, 2015, was inside the church during the explosion, helped keep parishioners away until police arrived) Minister Norman Story (called Las Cruces police after the church groundskeeper discovered an explosive device in a sprinkler box in the week prior to August 20, 2015, police detonated the device) Associate Scott Rogers (church in Las Cruces targeted by an explosive device on August 2, 2015, will be meeting with other church leaders, said "We are certainly having conversations about safety") Fr Stephen Imbaratto (said after arsonists destroyed a pro-life pregnancy center in Albuquerque on November 23, 2016 "Project Defending Life and the Holy Innocents Chapel always [have] been about mercy and healing...Those who love life will continue to be a light in this world. We must continue to pray and fast that darkness such as this does not prevail. Life always overcomes death because Jesus came into the world to bring light into the darkness and to conquer death through eternal life")

United States - New York Deacon Alton Lamont (said after his church in Amityville was defaced with Satanic graffiti on June 17, 2017"It's very upsetting that someone would desecrate a house of God") Dr Anne Hendershott (sociology professor, reported on May 16, 2013 that she had been audited by the IRS after publishing articles criticizing "fake Catholic" organizations that supported administration policies) Bill Donohue (Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, on December 31, 2014 denounced an upcoming front page Newsweek article that calls evangelicals and fundamentalists frauds) Chang Qaing Zhu (imprisoned and beaten in China for attending an underground church, denial of asylum overturned on March 20, 2014 by the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, which found that the immigration judge had acted improperly when she demanded that he name the precise year that St Paul converted to Christianity) Cheryl (pro-life activist, reported on May 19, 2014 to have rescued a 15 year old girl from a Buffalo abortion clinic, the girl was locked in an examining room and her mother was expelled from the clinic after they changed their minds about the abortion) Chris Slattery (on May 21, 2014 described efforts by the New York City government to shut down his anti-abortion pregnancy centers) Cynthia Gifford (wife of Robert Gifford, fined $13,000 on August 20, 2014 for refusing to host a same sex marriage at their Schaghticoke home, has stated that they had no objection to hosting the wedding reception) Dennis C Walczyk (Buffalo Catholic Charities CEO, reported on August 24, 2018 to have announced that the charity would cease providing foster care and adoption services due to state same-sex nondiscrimination law) Ed Mechmann (Archdiocese of New York spokesman, responded on February 7, 2018 to Governor Andrew Cuomo's executive order requiring all holders of state contracts to support LGBTQ rights "... earlier this week, the Governor veered frighteningly into the territory of the suppression of free thought and speech, and intolerance for religious freedom...By citing this completely irrelevant federal proposal, the press release inadvertently made clear that the Governor's new order is rooted in animosity towards religious freedom...The idea that 'LGBTQ rights' might be 'vulnerable' [whatever that means] because of a decision relating to health insurance coverage of contraceptives is something that only an ideologue could believe...This is classic Orwellian doublethink - simultaneously believing in two utterly contradictory things. You cannot at the same time quash religious liberty and freedom of thought and still claim to be protecting the rights of everyone. This order is premised on the assumption that freedom is a zero-sum game with winners and losers - and the Governor has chosen which side he wants to win...To really capture the import of the Governor's new policy, just consider his own words: “I can tell you that any school that refuses to protect transgender students will not receive a penny of state money and then they are out of business.” No subtlety to that threat. The only schools he could be talking about are religious ones, and everyone knows that means Catholic, Christian and Orthodox Jewish schools. The message is clear - conform or be destroyed…”) Elizabeth Joice (died of cancer on March 9, 2014, had delayed chemotherapy to avoid hurting her daughter until she could be delivered by C-section) George Richardson (aged 81, said after his church in Amityville was defaced with Satanic graffiti on June 17, 2017 “It is really scary! It is a sign of the end of time coming. It is a shame this is what the world is coming to. We need more prayer”) Fr Guy Massie (live-streamed Masses in Brooklyn blocked by Facebook on February 22, 2021, reason unknown) Fr James Kuroly (Brooklyn secondary school principal, condemned the July 9, 2020 desecration of a statue to Mary the mother of Jesus as “an act of hatred”) Javier Chavez (department store detective in Flushing, Queens, New York City, fired in May 2016 for directing a man who claimed to be a woman to leave the women's dressing room) Fr Jonathan Morris (spat upon on June 28, 2015 in Manhattan by two men who recognized him as a priest) Rev Joseph Jude Gannon (church in Hollis section, Queens borough, New York City vandalized on September 8, 2019; commented on the second vandalism of his church by a woman with a hacksaw on September 15, 2019 “It’s a kick in the stomach. It hurts...Such acts of religious intolerance have no place within our society, and every house of worship, regardless of their beliefs, should be respected”) Fr Jossy Vattothu (sprayed with red juice during a January 12, 2020 Mass in Greenpoint, Brooklyn by an apparently mentally ill man) Kathleen Gallagher (New York Catholic Conference, stated on February 15, 2013 that a pending state law would force the closure of all hospitals that refuse to perform abortions) Kim Vaillancourt (wife of Phil, mother of Ryan, Hailey, Kamila, Josie and Chalie, gave birth to her son Wyatt Eli one month early on April 15, 2016 in Tonawanda, had been diagnosed with an aggressive brain cancer after seeking help for headaches only days after adopting Kamila, Josie and Chalie - help she sought only because she was pregnant, delayed chemotherapy and radiation treatment save Wyatt but had surgery for the same reason, has been given about a year to live but would have lived only days without the surgery) Fr Marc Roselli SJ (aged 61, beaten by two robbers outside his church in Staten Island on June 2, 2016, later said Mass with a black eye) Deacon Patrick Logsdon (aged 70, manager of a transitional residence in Roosevelt, Long Island for men released from prison, stabbed to death by a resident on November 3, 2017) Rafael Ramos (aged 40, police officer, husband of Maritza, father of Justin and Jayden, shot dead in his patrol car in New York City on December 21, 2014 along with his partner by a Muslim with a history of mental illness, was to have been commissioned a chaplain later that day) Robert Gifford (husband of Cynthia Gifford, fined $13,000 on August 20, 2014 for refusing to host a same sex marriage at their Schaghticoke home, has stated that they had no objection to hosting the wedding reception) Cardinal Timothy Dolan (issued a call on April 3, 2015 for prayer for the persecuted, "This Holy Week we are calling upon Christians to also reflect upon the crucifixion, beheading, stoning, enforced slavery, sexual abuse, human trafficking, harassment, bombing and displacement of hundreds of thousands of Christians — and others — whose faith alone has made them a target of religious extremists. These communities need our love and support like never before, and they also need security and protection from the world like never before", call has been joined by 80 others; on April 26, 2017 called the position of Democratic National Committee chair Tom Perez that the party will exclude its anti-abortion members from public office “disturbing” and “intolerant” and called on Democrats to “challenge their leadership to recant this intolerant position”, added "now the DNC says that to be a Democrat – indeed to be an American – requires supporting that extreme agenda [of unrestricted abortion]”; responded on February 7, 2019 to an attack on him by Governor Andrew Cuomo over his criticism of the governor for passage of a new abortion bill "Today...Governor Cuomo linked me with the 'religious right'...This is something new from the governor. He did not consider me part of the 'religious right' when seeking my help with the minimum wage increase, prison reform, protection of migrant workers, a welcome of immigrants and refugees, and advocacy for college programs for the state’s inmate population, which we were happy to partner with him on, because they were our causes too. I guess I was part of the 'religious left' in those cases...The governor also continues his attempt to reduce the advocacy for the human rights of the pre-born infant to a 'Catholic issue', an insult to our allies of so many religions, or none at all..."; Manhattan cathedral vandalized with graffiti on May 30, 2020) Pastor Walter Willie (said after his church in Amityville was defaced with Satanic graffiti on June 17, 2017 “They must have a vendetta. To attack a place of healing, a place that helps people in time of great need — whoever did this has hurt in their heart”) Pastor Willard Price (said after his church in Amityville was defaced with Satanic graffiti on June 17, 2017that he will pray for the perpetrator) Bishop William H Love (aged 61, placed under a partial restriction by his presiding bishop on or before January 11, 2019 after refusing to allow same sex marriages in his Albany diocese, the refusal was sent in a letter to his diocese in November 2018 and stated that his church's 2018 General Convention requiring that all bishops approve same sex weddings was “in direct conflict and contradiction to God’s intent for the sacrament of marriage as revealed through Holy Scripture”) Pastor William Walker (aged 48, said after his church in Amityville was defaced with Satanic graffiti on June 17, 2017 “The blood of Jesus covers this house! No distress, no fear, to this family! Bless this house, no sign of evil will stop the word of God. Hail Jesus, hail Jesus, hail Jesus!”)

United States - North Carolina Bill Stevenson (judge, resigned as of October 30, 2014 after the legalization of same sex marriage and denial of any conscious objection) Fr Brendan Buckler (church in Boone burglarized on June 16, 2020, tabernacle and Eucharist stolen) Congressman Douglas Collins (U.S. Air Force Reserve chaplain, reported on August 7, 2018 to have issued a statement: "Americans' right to freedom of conscience is Constitutional and non-negotiable. With that in view, the law requires each chaplain to fulfill their duties without violating their conscience or the tenets of the specific faith-group that endorses their chaplaincy. Unfortunately, Chaplain Scott Squires is being subjected to a meandering investigation [at Fort Bragg] that could set a precedent for stripping all chaplains of their fundamental legal protections") Gayle Myrick (judge, resigned as of October 30, 2014 after the legalization of same sex marriage and denial of any conscious objection) Gilbert Breedlove (judge, resigned as of October 30, 2014 after the legalization of same sex marriage and denial of any conscious objection) Jeff Powell (judge, resigned as of October 30, 2014 after the legalization of same sex marriage and denial of any conscious objection) John Bailey Clark (aged 74, retiree in Morganton, recluse, animal lover, shot dead in his sleep on December 18, 2014 by an 18 year old neighbor who had pledged allegiance to ISIL aka the Islamic State) John Kallam Jr (judge, resigned as of October 30, 2014 after the legalization of same sex marriage and denial of any conscious objection) Staff Sgt Kacie Griffin (chaplain assistant, stationed at Fort Bragg, recommended for disciplinary action on or before April 19, 2018 after a same sex couple attempted to register for a marriage retreat and Major Scott Squires attempted to find another chaplain to take his place; an Army investigator was reported on August 7, 2018 to have recommended that she be charged with dereliction of duty, would face up to six months’ imprisonment if convicted; charges dismissed on August 24, 2018) Pastor Mannix Kinsey (church in East Charlotte damaged by arson on June 23, 2015, said "We have already forgiven them and we're hoping that the investigation will take its place and do what's necessary. These buildings can be repaired, they can be built over. This is the opportunity for God to really touch the hearts of individuals … we don't have any malice against anyone else") Pastor Matt Bentley (stabbed multiple times on May 11, 2016 after interrupting a burglary at his home in Charlotte, treated at a hospital, released) Lance Corporal Monifa Sterling USMC (convicted at court martial for refusing an order to remove a displayed Bible verse from her workstation at Camp Lejune despite the existence of personal messages on other workstations; appeal underway as of May 26, 2015; the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear her appeal on June 5, 2017) Sara T Pedro (emergency room nurse in Durham, filed suit against her hospital on or before November 3, 2017 after she faced retaliation and discrimination following her refusal to participate in abortions) Major Scott Squires (U.S. Army chaplain stationed at Fort Bragg, recommended for disciplinary action on or before April 19, 2018 after a same sex couple attempted to register for a marriage retreat and he attempted to find another chaplain to take his place, issued a statement: "I was shocked the investigator concluded that I should be reprimanded for doing something I'm required to do under Army regulations and my endorser's [church's] rules. I hope the Army sees that I was simply following Army regulations and the tenets of my church"; an Army investigator was reported on August 7, 2018 to have recommended that he be charged with dereliction of duty, would face up to six months’ imprisonment if convicted; charges dismissed on August 24, 2018) Tommy Holland (judge, resigned as of October 30, 2014 after the legalization of same sex marriage and denial of any conscious objection) Pastor Wilburn Lefler (church in Flat Rock reported on March 21, 2018 to have been vandalized with graffiti stating “[expletive] Jesus” and “[expletive] Billy Graham + diabolic delusive ‘divinity”, said “We’ll be praying about it, praying for them. Pray that the community would … show people that there’s still a lot of godly people in this town that love the Lord and serve the Lord”) William Yeoman (church trustee, church in Belville reported on March 21, 2018 to have been vandalized, said: “Why? Did God do anything to you? Did we do anything to you?”)

United States - Ohio Alberta Blayth (heard the February 28, 2016 shooting of Rev William B Schooler) Judge C Allen McConnell (refused in Toledo on July 6, 2015 to officiate at a same sex wedding citing his “personal and Christian beliefs”; reported on August 11, 2015 to have been told by the state Supreme Court Board of Professional Conduct that he cannot follow his personal beliefs, said that he would comply with the ruling) Fr Demetrios Gardikes (church in Columbus vandalizedon May 26, 2018, over $100,000 in damages incurred) Deacon Dennis Lucak (aged 72, husband of Helen Lucak, shot dead in his home on November 11, 2018, son charged) Bishop Edward Malesic (said after the Mass in Columbus that was interrupted on January 22, 2021 by pro-abortion demonstrators who chanted “Two, four, six, eight, this Church teaches hate”, “Jesus hates you”, and “If hell is real, you can burn in it”:“There are two sides here, and it’s very odd. Let me tell you, if I was an outside observer, I know exactly which side I would choose. There’s beauty and there’s ugliness. There’s peace and there’s violence. There’s love and there’s hatred. There’s life and there’s death") Grace Elizabeth Johnson (mother of 10, suspended from Facebook on February 9, 2017 after posting Biblical passages on homosexuality; reinstated on February 23, 2017; Twitter account suspended on August 30, 2017 after she tweeted an objection to Teen Vogue magazine's advocacy of teen anal sex) Helen Lucak (aged 72, wife of Deacon Dennis Lucak, shot dead in her home on November 11, 2018, son charged) Ian (verbally and physically attacked on July 9, 2014 in Cleveland by a pro-abortion sympathizer who was later issued a summons by police) Fr Ilie Nemes (church cross in Alliance vandalized on August 27, 2017) Jared Plesec (aged 21, Salvation Army employee, shot dead by a criminal in Cleveland on December 2, 2017, had preached the Bible to his killer before he died) Pastor Joseph H McDowell (aged 80, killed in his Columbus home on March 28, 2017) Fr Joseph Klee (struck by an abortion supporter's motor vehicle after she fled the scene following her attempt to steal anti-abortion signs in Columbus on April 8 or 9, 2017, hand injured, treated and released from the hospital; as of June 2017 has had a restraining order imposed on him by the woman, who has barged into groups of pro-life demonstrators and then 'flopped' onto to ground to appear as if she were pushed) Madison Gesiotto (aged 23, law school student in Columbus, reported on November 26, 2015 to have been threatened by a fellow student who wrote “The government cannot take action against you for your offensive and racist article. But your colleagues can” following her publication of an article on abortionists targeting African-Americans, the school administration declined to pursue the matter and turned her complaint into an attack on her article) Fr Mark Hodges (reported on January 25, 2021 to have been suspended from ministry after being present at the January 6, 2021 demonstration at the U.S. Capitol despite his efforts to calm the crowd, to protect the police from attack, and leaving before the riot fully broke out - the suspension was provoked by misrepresentations made by Orthodox LGBT activists) Fr Mikel Hill (church in Marlboro Township damaged in an August 27, 2017 arson attack) Rev Norman Hayes (beaten on October 20, 2013 in North Hampton by the boyfriend of a parishioner, nose broken, face bruised and lacerated, attacker is a self-described "militant atheist") Bishop Robert J Brennan (Mass in Columbus interrupted on January 22, 2021 by pro-abortion demonstrators who chanted “Two, four, six, eight, this Church teaches hate”, “Jesus hates you”, and “If hell is real, you can burn in it”) Seth Drayer (videotaped the July 9, 2014 attack on Ian by a pro-abortion sympathizer in Cleveland, also threatened) Rev William B Schooler (aged 70, former teacher, principal, and school board member, shot dead on February 28, 2016 by his mentally ill brother during choir practice in Dayton)

United States - Oklahoma Prof Brian McCall (resigned on October 2, 2018 as Dean of the University of Oklahoma School of Law in Norman under pressure due to having advocated a return to traditional Christian norms of modest dress for women in a 2014 book) Diane Range (mother of Jerome Bullock, defended her son with a baseball bat when he was stabbed in Oklahoma City on November 17, 2014 by a Muslim neighbor during a debate over religion) Jeremy Brown (punched by an abortion clinic customer in Norman on December 17, 2013, threatened with being shot) Jerome Bullock (son of Diane Range, stabbed by a Muslim neighbor and threatened with beheading in Oklahoma City on November 17, 2014 during a debate over religion) Ken Ham (speaking engagement at University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond cancelled on or before February 6, 2018 after the college was pressured by LGBT groups, said "Free speech in America is under increasing attack by some very intolerant people") Archbishop Paul Coakley (criticized Oklahoma City on July 2, 2014 for allowing a Black Mass at the Civic Center; on August 4, 2014 condemned the advertised use of a purportedly consecrated communion host, wrote “Using a consecrated Host obtained illicitly from a Catholic church and desecrating it in the vilest ways imaginable, the practitioners offer it in sacrifice to Satan. This terrible sacrilege is a deliberate attack on the Catholic Mass as well as the foundational beliefs of all Christians”; brought a lawsuit on August 20, 2014 against the organizers of the upcoming Black Mass which states that the consecrated host is church property that has been procured by theft or fraud and demands its return; the host has been turned over to a diocesan priest by the Satanist's attorney on August 21, 2014, added “I remain concerned about the dark powers that this satanic worship invites into our community and the spiritual danger that this poses to all who are involved in it, directly or indirectly”) Toby Harmon (spat upon by an abortion clinic customer in Norman on December 17, 2013, threatened with being shot)

United States - Oregon Aaron Klein (husband of Melissa Klein. found guilty on or before February 4, 2015 of discrimination for refusing to bake a cake for a same sex wedding despite serving same sex couples in other ways, may be fined up to $150,000, had already closed their business in Gresham due to harassment; attempt to raise funds on the internet to pay his fine was closed down by GoFundMe on the grounds that he was a criminal; ordered on July 2, 2015 to pay $135,000 in punitive damages, ordered to cease discussing their religious motivations for their actions; discovered on August 19, 2015 to have been sending free cakes to homosexual activists with the words "We really do love you!" on the cakes; appeal denied on December 28, 2017) Bill Diss (public high school math teacher, fired from his job after he asked to be excused on religious grounds from facilitating Planned Parenthood presentations in his classroom, as of September 23, 2014 has brought a $390,000 lawsuit against the Portland school district) Chauncy Childs (natural foods store owner, as of April 8, 2014 has been under threat from homosexual activists who demand that she close her Portland store and leave the community after she posted a defense of traditional marriage on Facebook, the activists organized pressure on her vendors to force them to not do business with her) Fr George Kuforiji (Nigerian national, shouted down during Mass in Portland on June 20, 2019 by some of his parishioners who opposed his traditional views) Pastor Howard A Johnson (granddaughter shot in the leg on October 1, 2015 by a gunman with neopagan leanings who deliberately targeted Christian students in a college classroom in Roseburg, survived, name not released due to privacy concerns) Jason Dale Johnson (aged 33, shot dead on October 1, 2015 by a gunman with neopagan leanings who deliberately targeted Christian students in a college classroom in Roseburg) Lacey Scroggins (aged 18, daughter of Pastor Randy Scroggins, survived the October 1, 2015 attack in Roseburg without injury, protected by Treven Taylor Anspach, rendered aid to victims until police took her away) Lucas Eibel (aged 18, shot dead on October 1, 2015 by a gunman with neopagan leanings who deliberately targeted Christian students in a college classroom in Roseburg) Melissa Klein (wife of Aaron Klein, found guilty on or before February 4, 2015 of discrimination for refusing to bake a cake for a same sex wedding despite serving same sex couples in other ways, may be fined up to $150,000, had already closed their business in Gresham due to harassment; attempt to raise funds on the internet to pay her fine was closed down by GoFundMe on the grounds that she was a criminal; ordered on July 2, 2015 to pay $135,000 in punitive damages, ordered to cease discussing their religious motivations for their actions; discovered on August 19, 2015 to have been sending free cakes to homosexual activists with the words "We really do love you!" on the cakes; appeal denied on December 28, 2017) Quinn Glen Cooper (aged 18, shot dead on October 1, 2015 by a gunman with neopagan leanings who deliberately targeted Christian students in a college classroom in Roseburg) Rebecka Ann Carnes (aged 18, shot dead on October 1, 2015 by a gunman with neopagan leanings who deliberately targeted Christian students in a college classroom in Roseburg) Sarena Dawn Moore (aged 44, shot dead on October 1, 2015 by a gunman with neopagan leanings who deliberately targeted Christian students in a college classroom in Roseburg) Judge Vance Day (as of September 3, 2015 has been under investigation by the Commission on Judicial Fitness because he told his staff in 2014 that he would no longer officiate at any weddings due to his religious beliefs on same sex marriage)

United States - Pennsylvania Cecelia Paul (has fostered over 100 children, reported on July 16, 2018 to have joined Catholic Social Services in suing the city of Philadelphia for its attempts to shut down their foster care program because they would not place children in same-sex households, a Federal court has denied their request for an injunction, appeal underway) Fr Charles Engelhardt OSFS (aged 67, died from an untreated coronary condition in Danville on November 15, 2014, had served 2 years of a 6 to 12 year sentence for child molestation, trial is now under investigation for prosecutorial misconduct and wrongful conviction) Archbishop Charles J Chaput (in Philadelphia on October 14, 2016 quoted a civil rights attorney that the Wikileaks revelations of Hillary Clinton campaign emails showed “some of the worst bigotry by a political machine I have seen...[a] Church has an absolute right to protect itself when under attack as a faith and Church by civil political forces...Now there is clear proof that this [anti-Catholic] approach is deliberate and will accelerate if these actors have any continuing, let alone louder, say in government...Look where we are now. We have political actors trying to orchestrate a coup [by the laity against bishops] to destroy Catholic values, and they even analogize their takeover to a coup in the Middle East, which amplifies their bigotry and hatred of the Church"; signed the joint statement "Created Male and Female: An Open Letter from Religious Leaders" which on December 15, 2017 condemned gender ideology; released the following statement: "Over the past few days, videos have gone viral on social media featuring State Representative Brian Sims aggressively harassing young and elderly women who were peacefully praying outside of a Planned Parenthood Clinic in Philadelphia [on or before May 2, 2019]. These videos, which Representative Sims took himself, have rightly sparked broad outrage and garnered much attention in the press. His actions were unbecoming of an elected official...There is much bitter irony that he claims to be a champion for the rights of all women yet he trampled on the rights of others and disgracefully shamed them in public. It was particularly disdainful that he offered a bounty for the identity and home addresses of three young ladies in order to encourage protests at their homes...Representative Sims spoke often of shame and there was plenty of that to be found in his actions, which demonstrated a complete disregard for civility and basic human decency...") Christian Cook (son of Pastor Rob and Stephanie Cook, witnessed the September 20, 2016 assault on his father) Gerald Groff (postal worker in Lancaster county, reported on February 18, 2020 to have been penalized for refusing to work on Sundays) Bishop Joseph C Bambera (signed the joint statement "Created Male and Female: An Open Letter from Religious Leaders" which on December 15, 2017 condemned gender ideology) Lake Ingle (college senior at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, religious studies major, accused on February 28. 2018 of classroom disruption and barred from the class “Christianity 481: Self, Sin, and Salvation” after he stated there are only two genders, will not be able to graduate unless he is re-instated) Lisa Boucher (bridal shop co-owner in Bloomsburg, announced the closure of the shop on or before March 5, 2018 due the imminent passage of an ordinance that would prohibit her religious refusal to cater to same sex weddings, "So what they [the LGBT community] did was got enough people to run for town council and they had a lot of the kids from [Bloomsburg University] vote those members in so a law could be passed. We actually have a document from the Democratic Committee here pretty much saying that there is going to be a fight with W.W. Bridal…We are closing and this is our livelihood. At this point, we don't have any plans of what to do in the future. We are kind of just resting on God's Word and hoping that He is going to pull us through it and open some sort of doors. I am sure He has blessings and will take us to wherever He wants us to serve, whether it be in our church or volunteer locally") Archbishop Melchisedek (signed the joint statement "Created Male and Female: An Open Letter from Religious Leaders" which on December 15, 2017 condemned gender ideology) Pastor Rob Cook (husband of Stephanie Cook, father of Christian Cook, struck in the back of the head with a nail gun during a September 20, 2016 robbery in Philadelphia, hospitalized and released, later said “I want you all to know we serve a God of forgiveness. Because He is our example, we forgive others when they wrong us, even if they don’t ask for it. This includes the man who attempted to rob us. He is not beyond salvation. Jesus can change him, just like he changed me. We forgive him and we have no ill will toward him. However, there are consequences to sin and this man is finding that out now [after his arrest]”) Scott Fetterolf (husband of Terri Fetterolf, reported on July 22, 2018 to have brought suit against the town of Sewickley Heights Borough after it ordered him to stop religious activities on his 35 acre farm and threated to fine him $500 per day, the obituary of the previous owner said the Bible studies and services had been attended for decades) Sharonell Fulton (has fostered over 40 children, reported on July 16, 2018 to have joined Catholic Social Services in suing the city of Philadelphia for its attempts to shut down their foster care program because they would not place children in same-sex households, a Federal court has denied their request for an injunction, appeal underway) Stephanie Cook (wife of Pastor Rob Cook, shot her husband's attacker in the leg) Terri Fetterolf (wife of Scott Fetterolf, reported on July 22, 2018 to have brought suit against the town of Sewickley Heights Borough after it ordered him to stop religious activities on his 35 acre farm and threated to fine him $500 per day, the obituary of the previous owner said the Bible studies and services had been attended for decades)

United States - Puerto Rico Fr Stanislaw Szczepanik CM (missionary, Polish citizen, killed in an apparent bicycle accident in Ponce on August 18, 2019, police investigation opened after the body was found with suspicious wounds)

United States - Rhode Island Dr Anthony Esolen (professor at Providence College, as of November 3, 2016 has been under pressure to resign after publishing two articles on the existence of “the Totalitarian Diversity Cult” at the college, has been charged with making 'racist, xenophobic, misogynist, homophobic, and religiously chauvinist statements'; reported on May 4, 2017 to have resigned, took a position at Thomas More College in New Hampshire, said "...to live at a used-to-be-Catholic school no longer committed to the humanities, where all the big decisions are basically secular in their inspiration and their aim, on a campus that is highly politicized and therefore treacherous — no, that’s not for someone of my years. I wrote, 10 years ago, that we had never really lost our identity, and what we had lost we were well on the way to recover. I could not write those words now...And what can you do against slander and detraction? Stand on a stump and shout your innocence to all passersby?") Fr Bonaventure Chapman OP (Assistant Chaplain at Providence College, reported on March 20, 2018 to have sent an email affirming traditional Christian marriage following the attacks on Michael Smalanskas) Fr Dominic Verner OP (Assistant Chaplain at Providence College, reported on March 20, 2018 to have sent an email affirming traditional Christian marriage following the attacks on Michael Smalanskas) Dr James Keating (faculty advisor to Michael Smalanskas, reported on March 19, 2018 to have criticized Providence College’s lack of response to the attacks against Michael: “The example that I gave to [Vice President of Student Affairs] Kristine Goodwin is, let’s say a young Mexican-American student had put up a poster that said, ‘God loves the dreamers,’ that poster had been torn down, and [the student who created it] felt unsafe in her own dormitory because kids who tore it down were milling outside her door. Then, a poster is put up of her being raped. How would the college react?”) Dr Matthew Cuddeback (reported on March 19, 2018 to have said “President Shanley’s [March 19] message to the Providence College community leaves Michael Smalanskas exposed. The President does not defend the bulletin board. He seems to imply that expressions of Catholic teaching on marriage should be confined largely to the classroom and the pulpit. And he leaves Michael exposed to the charge that the bulletin board is, in fact, ‘uncharitable.’”) Fr Michael Weibley OP (Assistant Chaplain at Providence College, reported on March 20, 2018 to have sent an email affirming traditional Christian marriage following the attacks on Michael Smalanskas) Michael Smalanskas (aged 22, college dormitory resident advisor at Providence College, former seminarian, reported on March 19, 2018 to have been threatened and harassed after having posted a defense of traditional Christian marriage on a bulletin board, said “I couldn’t even go brush my teeth for several nights without facing a mob in my hallway...There had been a pro-lesbian bulletin board up for the entire month of February in one of the female residence halls. But nobody was rioting outside the girl’s door. There’s a tremendous double standard when it comes to Catholic teaching or conservative views. They are just not protected in the same way", moved by campus security to a secure undisclosed location, fiancee threatened, after threatened with homosexual rape said it “very disturbing threat [and] a Title IX issue now...[a] lawsuit’s not off the table by any stretch”; reported on March 20, 2018 to have said after four chaplains at Providence College sent an email affirming traditional Christian marriage “I think it was a great effort on their part...a significant moment...possibly a turning point here at PC...Four young Dominicans came out with something that went much [further] than what the president or Vice President of mission and ministry did”; threatened with death on May 17, 2018 during his senior prom by two students, later asked the college to ban the two from graduation but was told their disciplinary hearing was scheduled for after graduation; subjected to a restraining order and told he would be banned from graduation after he publicly complained on May 19, 2018 of the school's inaction after it received notice of the death threats against him [the administrator claimed to have been 'threatened' by his complaint], the college said the banishment from graduation would be lifted if he apologized which he refused, the ban was later rescinded but the restraining order remained in effect) Fr Peter Martyr Yungwirth OP (Chaplain at Providence College, reported on March 20, 2018 to have sent an email affirming traditional Christian marriage following the attacks on Michael Smalanskas) Bishop Thomas J Tobin (reported on March 19, 2018 to have re-tweeted an article about Providence College faculty who were supporting Michael Smalanskas and in effect asked why were anti-Christian students attending a nominally Christian college: "But, it seems to me that those who teach or study at a Catholic school should accept the stated identity and mission of the school? Otherwise, why are they there? There are lots of other good options"; tweeted on June 1, 2019 “A reminder that Catholics should not support or attend LGBTQ ‘Pride Month’ events held in June. They promote a culture and encourage activities that are contrary to Catholic faith and morals. They are especially harmful for children”, heavily attacked in the secular media in response, the next day published a conciliatory statement that the media mischaracterized as a retraction)

United States - South Carolina Alana Simmons (granddaughter of Rev Dr Daniel Simmons Sr, said at his murderer’s June 19, 2015 bail hearing in Charleston "Although my grandfather and the other victims died at the hands of hate, everyone's plea for your soul is proof that they lived in love, and their legacies will live in love, so hate won't win") Ann McFadden (Christian book store owner, mother of Vivian McFadden Worthy, shot in the leg while in the store in Chester allegedly by her son-in-law on August 28, 2017, hospitalized in stable condition) Anthony Thompson (husband of Pastor Myra Thompson, asked the killer to accept Christ at her murderer’s June 19, 2015 bail hearing in Charleston “Do that and you’ll be better off than you are right now. I forgive you and my family forgives you") Bethane Middleton-Brown (sister of Pastor DePayne Middleton-Doctor, said at her murderer’s June 19, 2015 bail hearing in Charleston “we are the family that love built. We have no room for hate, so we have to forgive. I also thank God that I won't be around when your judgment comes from Him”) Bob Harrell (church elder, described church vandalism in Anderson county on April 14, 2019 in which 125 year old windows were broken and Islamic slogans were painted on outside walls: "It was very disturbing because we feel like this was an individual act and we don't hold any religious group responsible for it. We think it most likely was some misguided young people. However, we do take it very seriously and we'll do everything we can to assist law enforcement") Brittany Frazier (daughter of law of Pastor Simeon James Frazier Sr, said after his June 6, 2019 murder "He has a lot of family and friends, very influential in the community, especially when it comes to basketball. He didn't deserve to die like this. The type of person he was — he deserved to die peacefully in his sleep") Rev Clementa Pinckney (aged 41, senior pastor, husband of Jennifer, father of Eliana and Malana, state senator, shot dead by a white supremacist who joined the June 17, 2015 church Bible study in Charleston for an hour before he opened fire) Cynthia Hurd (aged 54, library manager, shot dead by a white supremacist who joined the June 17, 2015 church Bible study in Charleston for an hour before he opened fire) Rev Dr Daniel Simmons Sr (aged 74, grandfather of Alana Simmons, shot by a white supremacist who joined the June 17, 2015 church Bible study in Charleston for an hour before he opened fire, died in surgery) Pastor DePayne Middleton-Doctor (aged 49, retired community development director, sister of Bethane Middleton-Brown, shot dead by a white supremacist who joined the June 17, 2015 church Bible study in Charleston for an hour before he opened fire) Esvin Perez (aged 23, shot in the stomach while praying in church in Columbus on August 25, 2019, hospitalized in critical condition) Ethel Lance (aged 70, mother of Nadine Collier, cousin of Susie Jackson, retiree, church janitor, shot dead by a white supremacist who joined the June 17, 2015 church Bible study in Charleston for an hour before he opened fire) Felecia Sanders (shooting survivor, daughter of Susie Jackson, mother of Tywanza Sanders, said at their murderer’s June 19, 2015 bail hearing in Charleston “We welcomed you Wednesday night in our Bible study with open arms. You have killed some of the most beautifulest people that I know. Every fiber in my body hurts, and I'll never be the same. Tywanza Sanders was my son, but Tywanza was my hero. Tywanza was my hero. As we said in Bible study, we enjoyed you, but may God have mercy on you") Pastor Henry Alfaro (witnessed the August 25, 2019 shooting of Esvin Perez) Michael Berry (attorney, UPDATE: said that "We are starting to see cases where chaplains have targets on their backs" and said of the homosexual chaplain assistant who implicated Lt Commander Wes Modder at the Naval Nuclear Power Training Command, Goose Creek on December 6, 2014 "I believe some of what the lieutenant has alleged could constitute a military crime – false statements – taking what the chaplain said and twisting or misconstruing it – in an attempt to get the chaplain punished. He abused the position he was placed in as a chaplain's assistant") Pastor Myra Thompson (aged 59, shot dead by a white supremacist who joined the June 17, 2015 church Bible study in Charleston for an hour before he opened fire) Nadine Collier (daughter of Ethel Lance, said at her murderer’s June 19, 2015 bail hearing in Charleston "You took something very precious away from me. I will never talk to her ever again. I will never be able to hold her again. But I forgive you and have mercy on your soul. You hurt me. You hurt a lot of people. But God forgives you, and I forgive you", later said "I believe in God and I know that despite everything that our families are going through, God will bring us through") Rev Sharonda Coleman-Singleton (aged 45, mother of three, speech therapist, secondary school girls’ track and field coach, shot dead by a white supremacist who joined the June 17, 2015 church Bible study in Charleston for an hour before he opened fire) Pastor Simeon James Frazier Sr (aged 59, father in law of Brittany Frazier, shot dead in his home in or near Spartanburg by his stepson on June 6, 2019) Susie Jackson (aged 87, mother of Felecia Sanders, grandmother of Tywanza Sanders, cousin of Ethel Lance, shot dead by a white supremacist who joined the June 17, 2015 church Bible study in Charleston for an hour before he opened fire) Tywanza Sanders (aged 26, barber, son of Felecia Sanders, grandson of Susie Jackson, held a degree in business administration, shot dead by a white supremacist who joined the June 17, 2015 church Bible study in Charleston for an hour before he opened fire, had tried to shield his grandmother and tried to talk the shooter out of killing) Vivian McFadden Worthy (daughter of Ann McFadden, shot at in her mother's Christian bookstore in Chester allegedly by her husband on August 28, 2017, uninjured) Lt Commander Wes Modder (U.S. Navy chaplain, husband, father of four, accused on December 6, 2014 by his superior officer at the Naval Nuclear Power Training Command, Goose Creek of failing "to show tolerance and respect" in counseling sessions and of being unable to "function in the diverse and pluralistic environment" of his command, allegations are linked to the chaplain's defense of traditional Christian morality, said "They want a chaplain to accommodate policy that contradicts Scripture"; has become the object of a Congressional investigation by 35 Representatives who stated in a March 30, 2015 letter to the Secretary of the Navy “Navy policy...protects a chaplain’s ability to preach and teach consistent with the tenets of his or her endorsing denomination, even when Sailors may disagree with the chaplain’s remarks...It is dangerous to fall prey to the fundamentally false proposition that individuals who support natural marriage can only be motivated by animus for others...”; the navy refused on September 3, 2015 to allow the superior officer to bring charges to the Board of Inquiry, wrote that the officer's evidence that he demonstrated "substandard performance" does not meet the "standard of gross negligence or complete disregard of duty")

United States - South Dakota Rev Steve Hickey (aged 48, state legislator in Sioux Falls, wrote on May 27, 2015 about his pastoral work and his own likely fatal illness when responding to a constituent asking him to support an euthanasia bill "Out of all these experiences including my own situation, and my religious background, I have come to the conclusion that death is strictly the domain of God and we need to quit figuring out reasons to justify killing people: abortion, death penalty, euthanasia. The Bible teaches God gives us sufficient grace to live and I have found this includes sufficient grace to die")

United States - Tennessee Pastor Cleveland Hobdy III (church in Knoxville damaged by arson on June 22, 2015, said ""When I look at this I see, I think of an intention to try to destroy this entire church. It makes it sad. It's sad either way that someone would put their mind to try to damage a church that's trying to help people") Curtis McGinnis (husband of Lois McGinnis, Christian bookstore owner, as of August 1, 2016 obtained an apology and free advertising from the Knoxville newspaper in compensation) Pastor James Mitchell (church in Hohenwald spray painted with Satanic and anti-Semitic slurs on July 18, 2019, said "God forgives us, so we forgive them") Jeremiah Reese (aged 10, son of Michelle Day, helped barricade the door to a children's classroom with chairs during a shooting in church in Antioch on September 24, 2017, twisted his ankle) Pastor Joey Spann (aged 60, husband of Peggy, shot in the chest while in church in Antioch on September 24, 2017, hospitalized) Kendra Turner (aged 18, disciplined on August 19, 2014 in Dyersburg by her teacher for saying "bless you" to a student who sneezed) Lois McGinnis (wife of Curtis McGinnis, Christian bookstore owner, Knoxville newspaper ad not printed as of August 1, 2016 because it contained the offensive word 'Christian') Fr Manuel Perez (found on July 10, 2020 that a statue to Mary the mother of Jesus in Chattanooga had been desecrated) Mary Pitts (applied first aid to an elderly parishioner who was shot while in church in Antioch on September 24, 2017, said “I’m going to go home and cry") Melanie Smith (aged 39, wife, mother of two, shot dead in a church parking lot in Antioch on September 24, 2017) Michelle Day (mother of Jeremiah Reese, witnessed the shootings while in church in Antioch on September 24, 2017) Minerva Rosa (parishioner, applied first aid to Pastor Joey Spann after he was shot while in church in Antioch on September 24, 2017) Peggy Spann (wife of Pastor Joey Spann, shot while in church in Antioch on September 24, 2017, hospitalized) Robert 'Caleb' Engle (aged 22, church usher, grappled with and disarmed a gunman who shot parishioners in church in Antioch on September 24, 2017, suffered a broken nose, dislocated shoulder, and a gash on his forehead, held the gunman at gunpoint for police) Roger Bracey (witnessed the shootings while in church in Antioch on September 24, 2017) Pastor Steven Winegardner (defended Kendra Turner on August 19, 2014 in Dyersburg, said that other students have reported similar incidents and that the school's denials are not accurate) Uwe and Hannelore Romeike (fled Germany in 2008 due to a Nazi era law that prevented them from giving their children a Christian education at home, the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected their application for asylum in May 2013, they will now appeal to the Supreme Court; Supreme Court refused to hear their case, but on March 5, 2014 Homeland Security granted them indefinite deferred action status, which means they will not be deported)

United States - Texas Addie Maurine Schmeltekopf (aged 84, retreatant, hospitalized following a motor vehicle accident in Concan, died) Amanda Mosel (age 34, parishioner, not present during the November 5, 2017 church shooting, 13 year old goddaughter shot) Andy Schoonover (Austin LifeCare CEO, reported on August 30, 2019 that the pro-life women's center in Austin had been damaged with 'Liars' and 'Fake clinic' graffiti, said “We are not surprised. After all, we had a rock thrown through the window just a couple of months back...We are fighting for women and their babies. This just comes with the territory...These folks think that we are trying to lure women into our clinic by convincing them that we provide abortions, then trying to strongarm them into keeping their babies. This is the farthest from the truth. We make it abundantly clear [we neither perform nor refer for abortions] to ensure that we do not mislead our clients. As for the ‘Fake Clinic,’ I invite anyone to come down and see us, meet our R.N., Nurse Practitioner, and RDMS licensed sonographers to see for themselves whether or not we are a fake clinic”) Annabelle Renee Pomeroy (aged 14, daughter of Pastor Frank Pomeroy and Sherri Pomeroy, shot dead during a November 5, 2017 church service in Sutherland Springs) Deacon Anton "Tony" Wallace (aged 64, registered nurse, father of Sarah and Tiffany Wallace, shot while serving communion in a church in White Settlement on December 29, 2019, died at the hospital) Pastor Antonio Armstrong (aged 42, husband of Dawn Armstrong, former professional football player, shot while sleeping in Dallas on July 29, 2016 allegedly by his son, hospitalized, died) Avis Scholl Banks (aged 83, retreatant, died in a motor vehicle accident in Concan) Senior minister Britt Farmer (husband of Lisa Farmer, said of the gunman who had opened fire in a church in White Settlement on December 29, 2019, killing two "I had seen him. I had visited with him. I had given him food. I had offered him food at other occasions that he had been to our building") Botham Shem Jean (aged 26, youth pastor, son of Allison Jean, shot dead in his Dallas apartment on September 6, 2018 by a police officer who mistook the apartment for her own) Brooke Ward (aged 5, daughter of Chris and Joann Ward, shot dead during a November 5, 2017 church service in Sutherland Springs) Associate Pastor Bryan Holcombe (aged 60, husband of Karla Holcombe, father-in-law of Crystal Holcombe, prison minister, awning business owner, shot dead during a November 5, 2017 church service in Sutherland Springs) Carlin Brite Holcombe (unborn child of Crystal Marie Hill Holcombe and John Holcombe, shot dead during a November 5, 2017 church service in Sutherland Springs) Pastor Charles Nieman (church in El Paso vandalized on July 20, 2020, 27 windows and 7 doors shattered) Claryce Holcombe (mother of Associate Pastor Bryan Holcombe) Cody Roberson (aged 16, brother of Makayla Roberson, parishioner, not present during the November 5, 2017 church shooting) Coty Beavers (aged 28, husband of Nesreem Irsan, shot dead in his home in Houston on November 12, 2012 for having married a former Muslim woman without converting to Islam) Craig James (former NFL player, as of August 3, 2015 has brought suit against Fox Sports for his wrongful September 2013 termination due to his traditional Christian marriage views) Cristie Clare Moore (aged 68, retreatant, died in a motor vehicle accident in Concan) Crystal Marie Hill Holcombe (aged 36, wife of John Holcombe, widow of Peter Hill, mother of Philip, Greg, Emily, Megan, and Evelyn Hill, and expecting a sixth child, daughter in-law of Karla and Bryan Holcombe, shot dead during a November 5, 2017 church service in Sutherland Springs) Pastor Dave Welch (has been subpoenaed by the city of Houston to turn over to the city all homilies and private communications regarding the mayor, homosexuality, and gender identity, said on October 15, 2014 "We are dealing with bullies used to getting away with abuse of power") Dawn Armstrong (wife of Pastor Antonio Armstrong, daughter of Pastor Kay Shorter, shot dead while sleeping in Dallas on July 29, 2016 allegedly by her son) Debbie Braden (widow of Keith Allen Braden, shot during a November 5, 2017 church service in Sutherland Springs, hospitalized along with their wounded 6 year old granddaughter) Dennis Johnson (aged 77, husband of Sara Johnson, shot dead during a November 5, 2017 church service in Sutherland Springs) Judge Dianne Hensley (censured by the Commission on Judicial Conduct on November 12, 2019 for recusing herself from performing same sex weddings in Waco) Pastor Donald Frazier (aged 69, shot dead on July 4, 2014 by a burglar in Deerfield Village, Harris County despite pleading for his life) Pastor Donald Scott (church in Liberty threatened with a mass shooting during the January 5, 2020 live streaming of a worship service, suspect arrested) Donna Elizabeth Hawkins (aged 69, retreatant, died in a motor vehicle accident in Concan) Dorothy Fern Vulliet (aged 84, retreatant, died in a motor vehicle accident in Concan) Bishop Edward J Burns (expressed thanks on July 15, 2018 after a Federal appellate court reversed a district court ruling to compel the Catholic bishops of Texas to release their private emails regarding abortion, “We believe that life is sacred from the moment of conception. We also believe that we have a right to discuss in private how to address this issue and uphold the dignity of every human life, and that while upholding the sacredness of life may seem at odds with some people, our religious liberties and religious rights should not be eroded”, the bishops were not a party to the suit by abortion providers against the state law requiring funeral internment of aborted remains but had only stated they would provide free burial in Catholic cemeteries) Emily Garza (aged 7, daughter of Chris and Joann Ward, shot dead during a November 5, 2017 church service in Sutherland Springs) Emily Hill (aged 11, daughter of Crystal Holcombe, shot dead during a November 5, 2017 church service in Sutherland Springs) Pastor Evan D Risher (narrowly escaped a bullet fired into his Fort Worth church while standing at the pulpit, the bullet was likely fired as part of the December 31, 2018 New Year’s celebration) Evelyn Hill (aged 7, daughter of Crystal Holcombe, shot during a November 5, 2017 church service in Sutherland Springs, hospitalized) Frank Castillo (aged 61, stabbed to death by a fellow parishioner during a February 7, 2018 prayer meeting in Corpus Christi) Pastor Frank Pomeroy (father of Annabelle Renee Pomeroy, husband of Sherri Pomeroy, not present during the November 5, 2017 church shooting, later said "I don't understand, but I know my God does") Pastor Fritz Ritsch (Fort Worth church damaged in a January 8, 2017 arson attack, suffered $800,000 in damages, later said of the perpetrator "He had written something to make it seem like the damage was done by Muslims, but he misspelled Muhammad. It was disturbing that he was trying to make it seem like it was a terrorist act. It was all very disturbing") Gelareh Bagherzadeh (aged 30, recent convert, molecular biologist, found dead in her car from a single gunshot wound in Houston on January 16, 2012, believed to have been targeted because she was one of the few Iranian dissidents to have converted to Christianity; killers charged on April 24, 2015, motive was her helping her best friend Nesreem Irsan leave Islam and marry a Christian) Greg Hill (aged 13, son of Crystal Holcombe, shot dead during a November 5, 2017 church service in Sutherland Springs) Hailey Krueger (high school freshman, shot dead during a November 5, 2017 church service in Sutherland Springs) Harold Boyd Barber (aged 87, retreatant, died in a motor vehicle accident in Concan) Heidi Fu (wife of Pastor Bob Xiqiu Fu, harassed at her home in Midland on September 26, 2020 by likely agents of the Chinese Communist Party who were dispersed by police, some carried signs reading “Xiqiu Fu started the coronavirus”) Pastor Hernan Castano (has been subpoenaed as of October 15, 2014 by the city of Houston to turn over to the city all homilies and private communications regarding the mayor, homosexuality, and gender identity, said “For a city government to step into churches and ask pastors to turn in sermons, it’s gone too far. This is not what America, the nation is about”) Howard Bryan Allen (aged 81, retreatant, died in a motor vehicle accident in Concan) Hunter Green (aged 16, parishioner, not present during the November 5, 2017 church shooting) Isabel Arreola (congregant, said of the gunman who had opened fire in a church in White Settlement on December 29, 2019, killing two "I told him [my husband] I don't feel comfortable. I feel he's like dressed in like a beard and that's a wig...It looks so fake...I just kind of kept looking back there...I saw him pull the gun out and I was just panicked and then we heard it go off and we're just screaming, you know, trying to get under the pews") Jack Wilson (retired law enforcement officer, congregant, shot and killed the gunman who had opened fire in a church in White Settlement on December 29, 2019, killing two) Jacob Herrera (eighth grade student, slammed to the ground by Amarillo police for wearing rosary beads given him by his deceased brother, arrested on October 29, 2014 and held overnight, had permission from the school principal to bring them to school) James Younger (aged 6, Dallas resident, reported on November 26, 2018 to have been identified by his pediatrician mother and a gender therapist as transgendered, is slated to begin hormone therapy in 2 years) Pastor Janson Abraham (stabbed during a February 7, 2018 prayer meeting in Corpus Christi, hospitalized along with 2 other parishioners, said "I would say, you know, we don't know what made him do this but we can extend forgiveness, we can extend love. And his mother is a part of our church. So we are going to help her in the process") Pastor Jared Woodfill (has been subpoenaed by the city of Houston to turn over to the city all homilies and private communications regarding the mayor, homosexuality, and gender identity, said on October 15, 2014 "This is the city trampling on the First Amendment rights of pastors in their churches") Jason Frazier (son of Pastor Donald Frazier) Jeff Younger (father of James Younger [aged 6], Dallas resident, reported on November 26, 2018 to have been prohibited by court order from telling his son about Christian beliefs on sex and gender, charged by his ex-wife as a child abuser for not affirming their son's alleged transgenderism) Joann Ward (aged 30, mother of Brooke Ward and Emily Garza, stepmother of Rhianna and Rylind, shot dead during a November 5, 2017 church service in Sutherland Springs) Joanne Solis (shot in the arm during a November 5, 2017 church service in Sutherland Springs) Joaquin Ramirez (injured with shrapnel during a November 5, 2017 church service in Sutherland Springs, later said the gunman shot babies when they cried) Joe Holcombe (aged 86, father of Associate Pastor Bryan Holcombe, said “We’re strong. We’ll be with Bryan and his wife and the whole family one of these days — and we look forward to that”, said of the gunman at the November 5, 2017 church shooting "I don’t hold any resentment to him. I wish he hadn’t of done it, but all I can say is that he is going to be rewarded for what he did — and he’s not going to like that reward. I don’t hate him by any means, I just feel sorry for him”) John Holcombe (widower of Crystal Holcombe, stepfather of Philip, Greg, Emily, Megan, and Evelyn Hill, son of Bryan and Karla Holcombe, shot during a November 5, 2017 church service in Sutherland Springs, hospitalized) Fr Jonathan Austin (Dallas chapel vandalized, windows broken on May 31, 2020) Bishop Joseph Strickland (tweeted on June 2, 2019 that he supported Providence Rhode Island Bishop Thomas J Tobin's tweet on 'Pride Month', heavily attacked in the secular media in response) Julie Aftab (aged 26, accounting student, suffered an acid attack in Pakistan ten years ago by two men angered when she acknowledged she was a Christian, parents home was burned down after the attack, came to the U.S. for a total of 31 surgeries after most local hospitals refused to treat her because of her faith, now says [July 9, 2012 in Houston] that she wants to become a pastor and that "Those people, they think they did a bad thing to me, but they brought me closer to God") Pastor Kay Shorter (mother of Dawn Armstrong) Karen Marshall (wife of R Scott Marshall, retiree, first time church visitor, shot dead during a November 5, 2017 church service in Sutherland Springs) Karla Holcombe (aged 58, wife of Bryan Holcombe, mother-in-law of Crystal Holcombe, shot dead during a November 5, 2017 church service in Sutherland Springs) Keith Allen Braden (aged 62, husband of Debbie Braden, shot dead during a November 5, 2017 church service in Sutherland Springs) Pastor Khan Huynh (said on October 15, 2014 that in Vietnam “They sensor all the sermons. Pastors have to print out worship service programs and they have to approve it before we can conduct our service” and compared the Houston city's actions to subpoena all homilies and private communications regarding the mayor, homosexuality, and gender identity to the government in Vietnam) Lula Woicinski White (aged 71, grandmother of the gunman’s ex-wife, shot dead during a November 5, 2017 church service in Sutherland Springs) Pastor Magnus "Mike" Scott Hjalmarson (aged 53, shot dead in his Harris county garage on May 3, 2014) Makayla Roberson (aged 15, sister of Cody Roberson, parishioner, not present during the November 5, 2017 church shooting) Marc Daniel Holcombe (aged 36, son of Bryan and Karla Holcombe, father of Noah, shot dead during a November 5, 2017 church service in Sutherland Springs) Margaret Robinson Barber (aged 82, retreatant, died in a motor vehicle accident in Concan) Pastor Mark Follett (church in Jasper reported on March 21, 2018 to have been vandalized with graffiti stating "[expletive] Christians” and “phoneys”, said “When I was a kid, I would’ve never thought that things like this would happen, but they are”) Bishop Mark J. Seitz (wrote on Facebook following the February 9, 2021 destruction of three angel statues at a church in El Paso “We are saddened at the damage that was done at St. Pius X...At the same time, we recognize that these are things that can be repaired and replaced. We are grateful to God that no one was physically hurt in this violent outburst, because human beings are the most beautiful and irreplaceable images of God") Martha Holcomb Walker (aged 84, retreatant, died in a motor vehicle accident in Concan) Megan Hill (aged 9, daughter of Crystal Holcombe, shot dead during a November 5, 2017 church service in Sutherland Springs) Michael Berry (attorney for the Liberty Institute, reported that on October 17, 2013 soldiers at Fort Hood were told by U.S. military intelligence that evangelical Christians are "domestic enemies" and that soldiers who join or financially contribute to some Christian organizations may be prosecuted, the Army denies the accounts) Bishop Michael Olson (issued a statement with the other bishops of the state on February 20, 2018 defending Catholic Charities in a lawsuit brought by a same sex couple who had been denied an adoption “Catholic Charities of Fort Worth's International Foster Care program is an outreach that is faithful to the Church's mission to care for the poor and vulnerable. This mission is entrusted to the Church by Christ...It would be tragic if Catholic Charities were not able to provide this help, in accordance with the Gospel values and family, assistance that is so essential to these children who are vulnerable to being mistreated as meaningless in society”) Michael Ward (uncle of Rylind and Rhianna Ward, treated the wounded at the scene following a shooting at a November 5, 2017 church service in Sutherland Springs) Mildred Goodlett Rosamond (aged 87, retreatant, died in a motor vehicle accident in Concan) Mohammed Bakr al-Baghdadi (brother of ISIL Caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, doctor of Islamic studies, reported on September 16, 2014 to have converted to Christianity, his brother has issued a fatwa ordering his death, has been placed in the Federal Witness Security Program) Murray William Barrett (aged 67, retreatant, died in a motor vehicle accident in Concan) Nick Uhlig (parishioner, cousin of Crystal Holcombe, not present during the November 5, 2017 church shooting, said of his cousin “She doesn’t even drink, smoke or nothing. She just takes care of kids, she raises goats and makes homemade cheese. That kind of thing, you know? They don’t go out dancing or anything like that. They’re real old-fashioned, down- to-earth”) Noah (aged 18 months, daughter of Marc Daniel Holcombe, shot dead during a November 5, 2017 church service in Sutherland Springs) Peggy Lynn Warden (aged 56, grandmother of Zach Poston, shielded her grandson with her body, shot dead during a November 5, 2017 church service in Sutherland Springs) Philip Hill (aged 15, son of Crystal Holcombe, not present during the November 5, 2017 church shooting) Senior Master Sergeant Phillip Monk (fired from his position at Lackand Air Force Base, San Antonio after he refused to answer an order from his homosexual superior officer as to whether or not he agreed that expressing opposition to same-sex marriage was discriminatory, filed a religious discrimination complaint in response, in illegal retaliation on or before September 10, 2013 has been read his Miranda rights and told he is under investigation for making false official statements; on or before September 30, 2013 attended a meeting at Village Parkway Baptist Church in San Antonio with over 80 other persecuted airmen) Regina Rodriguez (daughter of Richard Rodriguez, unable to find her father after the November 5, 2017 church shooting, said "I just lost my father") Rhianna Ward (aged 9, daughter of Chris and Joann Ward, glasses broken by a bullet during a November 5, 2017 church service in Sutherland Springs, otherwise uninjured, hid under a pew) Rhonda Barlow Allen (aged 61, retreatant, died in a motor vehicle accident in Concan) Richard Rodriguez (aged 51, husband of Therese Rodriguez, father of Regina Rodriguez, shot dead during a November 5, 2017 church service in Sutherland Springs) Richard White (aged 67, shot dead in a church in White Settlement on December 29, 2019) Robert Corrigan (husband of Shani Brauher Corrigan, medical staff instructor, shot dead during a November 5, 2017 church service in Sutherland Springs) Robert Scott Marshall (husband of Karen Marshall, mechanic, first time church visitor, shot dead during a November 5, 2017 church service in Sutherland Springs) Ron Crews (Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty executive director, said of the October 17, 2013 U.S. military intelligence briefing at Fort Hood that identified evangelical Christians are "domestic enemies": “Far from mere ‘isolated incidents,’ as the Army has dismissed previous occurrences, this latest incident demonstrates a pattern and practice of Army briefings identifying mainstream religions, such as Evangelical Christianity, Judaism, and Catholicism, as examples of ‘religious extremism’ similar to Al Qaeda, Hamas and the Ku Klux Klan”) Rose Mary Harris (aged 64, retreatant, hospitalized in critical condition following a motor vehicle accident in Concan) Rylind Ward (aged 5, son of Chris and Joann Ward, brother of Rhianna Ward, shot four times during a November 5, 2017 church service in Sutherland Springs, hospitalized) Sara Johnson (aged 68, wife of Dennis Johnson, shot dead during a November 5, 2017 church service in Sutherland Springs) Sara Slavin (sister of John Holcombe, wrote to her friends after the November 5, 2017 church shooting "If something you say makes me burst into tears, please just let me cry. Don't apologize. It doesn't mean you said the wrong thing. Don't try to cheer me up. Just love me and let me cry. Hug me if you want but let me go if I try to pull away. Cry with me if you feel it. Love you all") Sarah Wallace (daughter of Deacon Anton "Tony" Wallace, said of his December 29, 2019 murder in a church in White Settlement "He always wanted us to be in the church, he was always my role model. We just say God wanted him more than we did. They couldn't handle his perfectness here") Shani Brauher Corrigan (wife of Robert Corrigan, shot dead during a November 5, 2017 church service in Sutherland Springs) Sherri Pomeroy (mother of Annabelle Renee Pomeroy, wife of Pastor Frank Pomeroy, not present during the November 5, 2017 church shooting, texted "We lost our 14-year-old daughter today and many friends. Neither of us has made it back into town yet to personally see the devastation. I am at the charlotte airport trying to get home as soon as I can", later said "And one thing that gives me a sliver of encouragement is that [our daughter] Belle was surrounded yesterday by her family that she loved fiercely...[we were not] members or parishioners [but a] very close family. We ate together, we laughed together, we cried together, and we worshiped together. Now most of our church family is gone, our building is probably beyond repair and the few of us that are left behind lost tragically yesterday. As senseless as this tragedy was, our sweet Belle would not have been able to deal with losing so much family") Stephen Willeford (witnessed the shooting during a November 5, 2017 church service in Sutherland Springs, shot the gunman after he exited the church, persuaded a passing motorist to help him pursue the gunman, later said "I'm a Christian...and I believe at this point...the Holy Spirit was on me because I had the presence of mind to look at what was going on”) Steve Branson (pastor of Village Parkway Baptist Church in San Antonio, on or before September 30, 2013 held a meeting of over 80 airmen from Lackland Air Force Base who are being intimidated by homosexual airmen to the point where some are ordered to publicly express their opinion on same sex marriage, said “The religious persecution is happening. It’s getting bigger every day") Pastor Steve Riggle (has been subpoenaed by the city of Houston to turn over to the city all homilies and private communications regarding the mayor, homosexuality, and gender identity, said on October 15, 2014 "This is an attempt to chill pastors from speaking to the cultural issues of the day. The mayor would like to silence our voice. She's a bully") Sue Wynn Tysdal (aged 76, retreatant, died in a motor vehicle accident in Concan) Judge Tammy Kemp (subject of an October 2, 2019 judicial complaint filed by the Freedom From Religion Foundation, the complaint was in retaliation for her gift of her personal Bible to a former policewoman she had just sentenced in Dallas to 10 years' imprisonment for the murder of youth pastor Bothan Shem Jean) Tara Elyse McNulty (aged 33, housemate of Bryan and Karla Holcombe, shot dead during a November 5, 2017 church service in Sutherland Springs) Terri Bevers (aged 45, fitness instructor, murdered in a church in Midlothian on April 18, 2016) Therese Rodriguez (wife of Richard Rodriguez, shot dead during a November 5, 2017 church service in Sutherland Springs) Tiffany Wallace (daughter of Deacon Anton "Tony" Wallace, witnessed her father's shooting in a church in White Settlement on December 29, 2019along with her children, ran to her father’s side, said of his murder "He was just our rock that held us together. Even when talking about Heaven, he said he was always prepared, but I never thought this would happen. You think dad would get old and sick but never get murdered...I forgive him, and it's the hardest thing to say because it's like, somebody killed your dad, but I forgive him. I’ll never forgive what he did, but I forgive him”) Zach Poston (aged 18, shielded a child with his body, shot during a November 5, 2017 church service in Sutherland Springs, hospitalized)

United States - Utah Kathy Taylor (aged 34, wife of Nathan, mother of six, reported on January 5, 2015 to have died of melanoma after delaying the birth of her unborn child in an attempt to save his life) Luke Taylor (newborn, delivered premature on September 22, 2014, died of an infection days after birth) William McLeod (fourth grade student in Bountiful, forced to remove Lenten ashes from his forehead on March 6, 2019 by a teacher, cried in embarrassment)

United States - Vermont Brian Senecal (daughter reported on March 14, 2018 to have been denied access to a state funded program that granted college vouchers to high school students because her school was Catholic, said “I can’t believe that Vermont would do that. That’s discriminatory”) Bishop Christopher Coyne (reported on March 14, 2018 to have spoken regarding a state funded program that granted college vouchers to public high school students only “There’s no good argument against it in terms of the separation of church and state”) Robin McCormick (mother of Catholic school students, reported on March 14, 2018 to have spoken regarding a state funded program that granted college vouchers to public high school students only “Ironically, a public school student can get this voucher and go to a Catholic college with it, but a Catholic high school student can’t take the voucher and go to the University of Vermont with it. It’s a little crazy”)

United Stated - Virginia Rector Charlie Dupree (Richmond church vandalized on the two nights previous to May 30, 2020) Pastor Dave Janney (stabbed by his 19 year old son in Purcellville on April 4, 2016, hospitalized in stable condition) Rep Frank Wolf (sent a letter on January 14, 2013 to 300 Christian leaders in the U.S. requesting that they speak out on behalf of persecuted Christians around the globe: "From my perspective the Church in the West, specifically in America, is failing in this regard") Rev Dr James L Nesmith Jr (Richmond church vandalized, windows broken on May 31, 2020) Karen Pence (aged 52, wife of Vice President Michael Pence, criticized by two media outlets on January 15, 2010 for returning to a part time art teaching position at a Christian school in Springfield, the school was falsely accused in the headlines of 'barring' homosexual students) Kenneth Hauge (husband of Liv Hauge, semi-retired minister, threatened on July 23, 2018 with eviction from his Fredericksburg retirement home for having conducted Bible Studies) Liv Hauge (wife of Kenneth Hauge, threatened on July 23, 2018 with eviction from her Fredericksburg retirement home for having conducted Bible Studies) Purity Thomas (aged 15, student, punched in the face by an abortion supporter in Roanoke on December 2, 2017, treated at a hospital for a concussion)

United States - Washington state Barronelle Stutzman (aged 70, sued by the state attorney general in April 2013 for declining to provide floral arrangements for a Richland same-sex wedding; found guilty on February 18, 2015, refused to accept a $2,001 settlement which would require her to violate her religious beliefs, wrote "Washington's constitution guarantees us 'freedom of conscience in all matters of religious sentiment.' I cannot sell that precious freedom. You are asking me to walk in the way of a well-known betrayer, one who sold something of infinite worth for 30 pieces of silver. That is something I will not do...Your offer reveals that you don't really understand me or what this conflict is all about. It's about freedom, not money. I certainly don't relish the idea of losing my business, my home, and everything else that your lawsuit threatens to take from my family, but my freedom to honor God in doing what I do best is more important...I pray that you reconsider your position. I kindly served Rob for nearly a decade and would gladly continue to do so. I truly want the best for my friend. I've also employed and served many members of the LGBT community, and will continue to do so regardless of what happens with this case. You chose to attack my faith and pursue this not simply as a matter of law, but to threaten my very means of working, eating and having a home. If you are serious about clarifying the law, then I urge you to drop your claims against my home, business, and other assets...Our state would be a better place if we respected each other's differences, and our leaders protected the freedom to have those differences. Since 2012, same-sex couples all over the state have been free to act on their beliefs about marriage, but because I follow the Bible's teaching that marriage is the union of one man and one woman, I am no longer free to act on my beliefs"; the Washington state Supreme Court upheld the ruling on appeal on February 16, 2017; the U.S. Supreme Court vacated the lower court ruling on June 25, 2018 and returned the case to the Washington Supreme Court for re-evaluation in the light of the similar Masterpiece Cakeshop decision; the Washington state Supreme Court upheld the ruling again on June 6, 2019; appealed her case again to the U.S. Supreme Court on September 11, 2019) Caleb Head (told a homosexual coffee store owner on or before October 8, 2017 that he did not want to see a public sex act, was told in reply "Well then I don't have to [expletive] tolerate this! Leave! All of you. Tell all your [expletive] friends, don't [expletive] come here") Caytie Davis (said to a homosexual coffee store owner who was reported on October 8, 2017 to have ejected her from his Seattle store "Just know that Christ can save you from that lifestyle", was told in reply "I'm not going to be saved by anything. I'd [expletive] Christ in the [expletive]. OK? He's hot") Judge Gary Tabor (admonished by the Judicial Conduct Commission on October 8, 2013 after he stated in a meeting with Thurston county court employees that he was uncomfortable with officiating at same sex weddings for religious reasons, had already stated that to avoid charges of discrimination he would decline to officiate at all weddings) Joe Kennedy (assistant football coach, suspended by his Bremerton school on October 28, 2015 for refusing to stop public prayer, the school stated it was afraid of a lawsuit should he continue) Jonathan Sutherland (said to a homosexual coffee store owner who was reported on October 8, 2017 to have ejected him from his Seattle store "So you're not willing to tolerate our presence?", was told in reply "If I go get my boyfriend and [expletive] him in the [expletive] right here you're going to tolerate that?") Kevin Stormans (pharmacy owner, ordered on July 23, 2015 to sell abortifacients, said "With 33 pharmacies stocking the drug within five miles of our store, it is extremely disappointing that the court and the state demand that we violate our conscience or lose our family business. All we are asking is to be able to live out the beliefs that we hold, as Americans have always been able to do, and to be able to refer patients for religious reasons, as the medical and pharmaceutical associations overwhelmingly recommend") Fr Martin (witnessed the April 16, 2019 attack on Abbot Tryphon) Abbot Tryphon (All-Merciful Savior Monastery, Vashon Island, Facebook account suspended because he has been using his clerical name rather than his birth name, wrote on his April 14, 2015 online petition demanding that Facebook reverse its policy “It is time to tell Facebook their policy has gone too far...It may be difficult to believe, but Facebook has become an essential tool in fulfilling my ministry…"; attacked on April 16, 2019 while pumping gasoline in Burien, said “When the man saw the [monastic clothing and pectoral] cross, he went insane. He got this insane look and that’s when he punched me”, before he was struck the man asked "How's Trump?" and he replied he had no idea, later wrote "I should be filled with rage against a brute who could perpetrate such an unwarranted attack against me...Instead, I find myself filled with compassion and love for the poor tortured soul who was driven to commit such a heinous act. That a young man would sucker punch an obviously old man, and a stranger to him, is truly hard for me to comprehend. Even more, I am praying for my attacker...What inner torment could cause him to lash out at someone who has done him no harm? He is his own victim even more than I am his victim. I know I have forgiven him, but can he forgive himself?...I have been left with a certain amount of hearing loss, with a ringing in my left ear and reduced hearing in my right ear, along with an echoing sound. As a lover of classical music, I pray this will not be permanent. I'm also suffering from headaches, and general body pain. So, in your charity, please keep this old monk in your holy prayers...I am grateful that I was blessed to share in Christ's suffering and abuse, during these final days of the Great Lenten Journey...I want him caught, not only that he not injure another person, but that I can have a chance to visit him in jail, and let him know that I forgive him, and that God loves him")

United States - West Virginia Pastor Rich Penkoski (reported on July 6, 2017 that his automobile had been vandalized, had received rape and death threats, homosexual pornography, and mailed feces after stating he opposed use of the rainbow flag emoji on Facebook, has had to change his telephone number; family has as of July 18, 2017 moved out of their Harpers Ferry home due to death threats) Pastor Ronald Browning (aged 68, beaten to death in his Beckley home on February 9, 2015)

United States - Wisconsin Cary Bogue (CEO of Project Wildfire in Milwaukee, as of May 23, 2014 is fighting Facebook's reinstatement of a site called “Virgin Mary Should’ve Aborted”, has received death threats and Facebook attacks on his family, wife has been followed and photographed) Dr John McAdams (professor of political science at Marquette University, Milwaukee, suspended on December 16, 2014, banned from campus, and under formal investigation for defending a student's defense of traditional Christian morality on his blog; as of February 9, 2015 the university has begun termination proceedings against him despite his tenure, has vowed to fight the university's actions; told in a letter from the university president in March 2016 to retract his defense of the student who defended Christian morality, refused; brought suit against the university on May 2, 2016; prevailed in a July 6, 2018 Wisconsin Supreme Court decision which stated 'The undisputed facts show that the University breached its contract with Dr. McAdams when it suspended him for engaging in activity protected by the contract's guarantee of academic freedom...we reverse the circuit court and...order the University to immediately reinstate Dr McAdams with unimpaired rank, tenure, compensation, and benefits')