Pursuing Justice: The Return of Churches Initiative

The ANCA highlights efforts to secure the return of confiscated Armenian, Greek and Syriac churches from a repressive Turkish regime, including the House passage of , in December 2011. This religious freedom resolution, spearheaded by House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) and former House Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Democrat Howard Berman (D-CA), calls upon the government of Turkey to honor its international obligations to return confiscated Christian church propert