{"id":200555,"date":"2022-07-01T17:49:34","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T16:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=200555"},"modified":"2022-07-01T17:49:34","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T16:49:34","slug":"relist-nigeria-as-violator-of-religious-freedom-over-murder-of-christians-us-senators-urge-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/07\/01\/relist-nigeria-as-violator-of-religious-freedom-over-murder-of-christians-us-senators-urge-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"Relist Nigeria as violator of religious freedom over murder of Christians, US senators urge Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two United States of America Senators, Marco Rubio and Josh Hawley have forwarded a letter to\u00a0President Joe Biden to relist Nigeria as a &#8220;Country of Particular Concern&#8221; over increasing cases of violence against Christians in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The letter was written by the two US Republican lawmakers and signed by another three senators, Mike Braun, Tom Cotton and Jim Inhofe.<\/p>\n<p>In the letter to the U.S. Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, the senators urged President Biden to immediately reinstate Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC) under the International Religious Freedom Act.<\/p>\n<p>The US lawmakers noted that religious violence is still high in Nigeria which had been earlier put on the list of the countries of particular concern with regards to religious violence by President Donald Trump\u2019s administration but was delisted by the current <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/06\/28\/russia-places-entry-ban-on-bidens-wife-daughter\/\">Biden<\/a> administration.<\/p>\n<p>The letter which was also published on Senator Rubio\u2019s official website reads: &#8220;As you are well aware, horrific acts of deadly violence have been committed against Nigerian Christians in recent weeks, including the massacre of churchgoers on Pentecost Sunday and the stoning of a Christian college student. Sadly, such violence has become all too familiar for Christians in Africa\u2019s most populous country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last year, however, you inexplicably removed Nigeria\u2019s designation as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC) despite no demonstrable improvement in the country\u2019s religious freedom conditions. On the contrary, the situation in Nigeria has grown worse. We previously urged you to immediately reverse your misguided decision, and we write today to renew our call.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Recent high-profile acts of violence underscore the intense religious persecution that is regularly experienced by Nigerian Christians. On Pentecost Sunday, gunmen attacked St. Francis Catholic Church in Nigeria\u2019s Ondo state, reportedly killing at least 50 churchgoers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last month, a violent mob brutally stoned to death Deborah Emmanuel Yakubu, a student at Shehu Shagari College of Education in northwest Nigeria. According to reports, some Islamist students were enraged by a \u201cblasphemous\u201d message Deborah had posted in a WhatsApp group, in which she said that \u201cJesus Christ is the greatest. He helped me pass my exams.\u201d Merely expressing one\u2019s Christian faith has apparently become tantamount to a death sentence in many parts of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Religious violence and intolerance directed toward Nigerian Christians has worsened in recent years. One report documented more than 4,650 cases of Nigerian Christians who were killed for their faith in 2021. Accordingly, Nigeria earns the dubious honor\u2014for the second consecutive year\u2014of being the deadliest country on earth for Christians.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We wrote last year that &#8220;not only has the government of Nigeria failed to take meaningful steps to mitigate such violence, but Nigerian authorities restrict and crack down on religious minorities and detain individuals indefinitely on blasphemy-related charges. We remain concerned that the Nigerian government is failing to protect the religious freedom and basic safety of its Christian citizens.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>&#8220;Furthermore, as this year\u2019s annual reports from the bipartisan U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) and from your own Department make clear, Nigerian government authorities directly participate in the persecution of Christians, Muslims, and even non-theists, most notoriously through arrests and convictions under blasphemy laws. Make no mistake: continued enforcement of state-sanctioned blasphemy laws enables the type of deadly violence that killed Deborah Emmanuel Yakubu and so many others.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&#8220;When we previously wrote you, we were met with a response which failed to answer our questions about why the State Department views Nigeria as not having engaged in or tolerated \u201csystematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of religious freedom\u201d or even \u201csevere violations of religious freedom.\u201d This is unacceptable, especially because you are required by federal law to consider the recommendation of USCIRF\u2014which, since 2009, has been to designate Nigeria as a CPC. In fact, USCIRF reiterated in its 2022 Annual Report that it was \u201cappalled\u201d at the removal of Nigeria\u2019s CPC designation. Despite public statements from you and other State Department officials condemning the recent bloodshed in Nigeria, the fact remains that the Department still does not officially regard Nigeria as a severe violator of religious freedom.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&#8220;The State Department released its 2021 Report on International Religious Freedom on June 2, which starts the 90-day timeline for the Department to make its religious freedom designations. Given the abysmal state of religious freedom in Nigeria, it is incumbent upon you to reverse last year\u2019s decision and redesignate the country as a CPC. The moment demands that you do so without delay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two United States of America Senators, Marco Rubio and Josh Hawley have forwarded a letter to\u00a0President Joe Biden to relist Nigeria as a &#8220;Country of Particular Concern&#8221; over increasing cases of violence against Christians in the country. 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