GLOBAL OUTCRY
Tens of thousands express their outrage of the D.C. Court's involvement in religious mattersvideos
D.C. Speeches
Speaking Out to Protect Our Sacred Freedom of Faith: Naomi MacMurdie
Judges of the DC Superior Court and Americans who care about religious freedom, I am standing here because I can no longer silently suffer as the court infringes on my sacred freedom as a human being and as an American citizen. I wrote a...
Honor Our Right to Believe: Yoshitaka Goto
I am a person holding spiritual principles and values. I believe not in a religion, but in a spiritual lifestyle practiced by Rev. Sun Myung Moon. I was born into the Unification Movement. I personally believe, after my own seeking, that...
DC Courts Judge a Faith Community: Inbum Cho
My name is Inbum Cho. I am from the Republic of Korea. In the Unification Faith Movement, through Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s spiritual teachings, we seek to walk a true path of faith. The nation of Korea is our spiritual fatherland. I am here...
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U.S.A. statements
DC Court’s Nightmare Ruling Under Appeal: Religious Freedom Advocates Issue Amici Briefs Decrying Ruling
Imagine this nightmare scenario: you are a volunteer director on the board of a non-profit religious entity. It is one of a number of legal entities through which the work of a new religious movement is pursued. The founder dies and...
Governmental Overreach Causes Growing Alarm for Religious Groups
By Howard Self Dec. 21 (UPI) -- As 2020 is drawing to a close, we all hope that we are seeing the light at the end of the tunnel in this year of the pandemic. The advent of vaccines is hopeful, yet the United States and other nations face...
Thousands Gather to Protect Religious Freedom from Government Interference
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Thousands from around the world will convene in an online rally organized by Right To Believe to call out gross judicial overreach by the DC Courts and denounce the way the DC Court has handled...
INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT

Nepal Defends Religious Freedom
Nepali citizens stands with the international community to defend their spiritual leader, Dr. Hyun Jin Preston Moon. They believe the U.S. Court system will set a bad precedent for all religious communities around the world.

Korea Honors Religious Freedom and America's 1st Amendment
Weekly gatherings in the heart of Seoul are rallying hundreds raising their voices representing the Republic of Korea in this fight for religious freedom. They have sent a strong message of warning, “The world is watching.”

Mongolia Joins the Fight for Religious Freedom alongside United States
Mongolia recently joins the fight for religious freedom. While small in number for now, they have loudly voiced out their experienced religious oppression and are expressing their outrage over the judicial overreach in the United States.
Commission Approves DC Judge Who Unconstitutionally Infringes on First Amendment Religious Freedoms for Another 15-year term.
Our Response: Letter to the President
of the United States
We are grateful, Mr. President, for your valiant efforts to defend the First Amendment in the face of judicial decisions in courts around the country that are collectively eroding individuals’ rights and freedoms. I write to inform you about a travesty of justice recently committed in the District of Columbia Superior Court. Tens of thousands of people, including myself, have suffered religious discrimination at the hands of Judge Laura Cordero of that court... Judge Cordero’s unconstitutional ruling on this case [“Family Fed. for World Peace and Unification vs Hyun Jin Moon, et al” (No. 2011 CA 003721 B)] not only trampled on the First Amendment rights of the defendants, but also on the rights of people of faith worldwide.
Compounding this injustice was the recent decision to award Judge Laura Cordero with a “well qualified” reappointment on April 27, 2020 by the DC Commission on Judicial Disabilities and Tenure (the “Commission”). This decision was rendered in spite of her numerous judicial errors and 5,000 emails to the Commission objecting to her reappointment... Cordero’s reappointment should have been at the discretion of your office, Mr. President. Regrettably, it appears that the Commission is one of the entrenched governmental entities determined to maintain the status-quo of the DC “swamp” by preventing your office from exercising its authority to appoint competent and honest judges.
our response
Concerned people from around the world submitted letters to the commission on Judicial Disabilities and Tenure, voicing concern over Judge Laura Cordero’s lack of impartiality and professionalism.