Law and Religious Liberty Mentoring

Year after year, the number and complexity of critical, precedent-setting religious liberty cases grows exponentially.  The free exercise of religion is the most basic and inalienable of all human rights. However, the right to freely exercise one’s faith has never been more threatened than it is today. And the rights of Christians are especially vulnerable.

Forum Law and Religious Liberty Mentoring is designed to help answer your questions in regards to international religious liberty, sanctity of life and defence of the family. Also to help guide in additional training opportunities in these areas as a barrister (attorney), law student or pastor.

LAW AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY MENTORS

Julia Doxat-Purser is the European Evangelical Alliance’s socio-political representative & religious liberty coordinator.  She was previously EEA’s Brussels representative for 8 years, where her most significant work was ensuring the EU’s Employment Directive in 2000 was amended to grant essential flexibility to faith groups.  Julia’s role now is to help Evangelicals engage in the public arena effectively and “Christianly”. She teaches, writes, offers advocacy & consultancy support and connects specialists together. She co-convenes the European Religious Liberty Forum with Advocates Europe. With CARE, ICAP & other partners, she is developing the European Freedom Network, linking ministries working on human trafficking. Julia also works with the World Evangelical Alliance on religious liberty, human trafficking and political engagement training.  Julia is married to Alistair and lives in the north of England, in Hull… where William Wilberforce came from.

Roger Kiska Roger Kiska serves as legal counsel with the Alliance Defense Fund. Based in Bratislava, Slovak Republic, he specializes in international litigation with a focus on European law. Since joining ADF in 2008, Kiska has developed the ADF-allied attorney network in Europe, working with allies to litigate European cases that have a potential for impacting ADF efforts in America. Most recently, he served as legal counsel at the European Center for Law and Justice. Kiska began his legal career in the Slovak Republic as an attorney with the firm of former Slovak Prime Minister Jan Carnogursky. He has successfully litigated before the European Court of Human Rights and has provided expert briefing to various committees before the European Parliament on numerous occasions. Kiska earned his J.D. in 2003 at Ave Maria School of Law in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jeffery Ventrella serves as senior counsel and senior vice-president of strategic training for the Alliance Defense Fund at its Team Resource Center in Scottsdale, Arizona. Since joining ADF in 2000, he has headed the ADF Blackstone Legal Fellowship, a unique legal internship programme. He also leads the ADF National Litigation Academy. He earned his J.D. from the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law and has practiced law since 1985. He is a member of the Idaho State Bar and is also admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho, and the Bar of the U.S. Supreme Court.

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