Philipp Bues, Author at ADF International

Europe’s Free Speech Crisis Is Making International Headlines

Imagine a Europe where quoting the Bible lands you in court. Where praying silently or offering consensual conversation on a public streetside lands you with a criminal charge and hefty fines.

The Invisible Arbiter: What Conscience Really Means and Why It Matters Today

In this powerful episode of Culture Conversations, Prof. Dr. Christiaan Alting von Geusau joins Paul Coleman (Executive Director, ADF International) to explore conscience as a deeply personal—and profoundly legal—moral compass.

Digital Services Act

The DSA is at the heart of Europe’s censorship industrial complex, consisting of a number of interwoven regulations and codes that give an unaccountable bureaucracy broad power to censor speech.

Was bedeutet Christenverfolgung heute – weltweit und mitten in Europa?

In diesem Panel diskutieren Pater Karl Wallner (Missio Österreich), Anja Hoffmann (Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination Against Christians), Kurt Igler (Open Doors Österreich) mit Sophia Kuby von ADF International.

Christenverfolgung weltweit: Eine Realität, die wir nicht ignorieren dürfen

Was bedeutet es, heute Christ zu sein? Warum schweigen Medien und Kirchen oft über das Leiden der Gläubigen?

United States of America (50th Session)

This report highlights the urgent need for the United States of America to take decisive action to protect children by respecting the fundamental human right and responsibility of parents to make decisions concerning the care, custody, and control of their children, particularly their right to protect their children from efforts to impose gender ideology in education and healthcare.

Maldives (50th Session)

This report addresses the state of freedom of religion or belief and freedom of expression in the Maldives, highlighting existing restrictions and government policies that contravene its obligations under international human rights law.

Libya (50th Session)

This report addresses the situation of religious minorities in Libya, including the impact of laws prohibiting “offenses against religion”, such as blasphemy, or restricting the peaceful propagation of one’s religion and other forms of expression deemed to create societal harm. It also highlights the de facto criminalization of apostasy, punishable by death, and the consequences of political instability and insecurity resulting from the targeted activities of violent militias and extremist groups against vulnerable religious and other minorities.

Honduras (50th Session)

This submission reports on the implementation of school-based sex education programmes in Honduras, highlighting the country’s shortcomings in meeting its obligations under international human rights law regarding the rights of the child and parental rights.