{"id":200637,"date":"2022-07-02T04:39:19","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T03:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=200637"},"modified":"2022-07-02T04:40:29","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T03:40:29","slug":"owo-attack-add-nigeria-back-to-list-of-religious-freedom-violator-us-senators-tell-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/07\/02\/owo-attack-add-nigeria-back-to-list-of-religious-freedom-violator-us-senators-tell-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"Owo attack: Add Nigeria back to list of religious freedom violator, US senators tell Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is mounting concerns about the renewed wave religious killings in Nigeria among United States senators. <\/p>\n<p>To this end, five American senators have asked the US government to re-designate Nigeria as a country of particular concern (CPC).<\/p>\n<p>In December 2020, the US listed Nigeria among countries blacklisted for \u201cviolating religious freedom\u201d under the CPC designation.<\/p>\n<p>However, in November 2021, Nigeria was removed from the list.<\/p>\n<p>In a June 29, 2022 letter to Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state, the senators questioned why Nigeria was \u201cinexplicably\u201d removed \u201cdespite no demonstrable improvement in the country\u2019s religious freedom conditions\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>They cited the attack on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/07\/01\/owo-attack-us-institute-accuses-nigerian-government-of-shielding-herdsmen-and-blaming-iswap\/\">St Francis Catholic Church, Owo, Ondo<\/a> state and the lynching of Deborah Samuel, a female student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, as cases of \u201creligious persecutions\u201d in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>The senators who signed the letter are Josh Hawley, Marco Rubio, Mike Braun, James Inhofe and Tom Cotton.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs 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,\u201d the letter reads. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn 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>\u201cRecent high-profile acts of violence underscore the intense religious persecution that is regularly experienced by Nigerian Christians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Pentecost Sunday, gunmen attacked St. Francis Catholic Church in Nigeria\u2019s Ondo state, reportedly killing at least 50 churchgoers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast month, a violent mob brutally stoned to death Deborah Emmanuel Yakubu, a student at Shehu Shagari College of Education in northwest Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMerely expressing one\u2019s Christian faith has apparently become tantamount to a death sentence in many parts of Nigeria. Religious violence and intolerance directed toward Nigerian Christians has worsened in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne report documented more than 4,650 cases of Nigerian Christians who were killed for their faith in 2021. Accordingly, Nigeria earns the dubious honor \u2014 for the second consecutive year \u2014 of being the deadliest country on earth for Christians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMake 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<p>\u201cWhen 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<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven 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. We look forward to your swift action on this important matter.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is mounting concerns about the renewed wave religious killings in Nigeria among United States senators. To this end, five American senators have asked the US government to re-designate Nigeria as a country of particular concern (CPC). In December 2020, the US listed Nigeria among countries blacklisted for \u201cviolating religious freedom\u201d under the CPC designation. 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