United States President, Donald Trump, has redesignated Nigeria as a “Nation of Specific Concern” (CPC) over what he described as ongoing “Christian genocide” in elements of the nation.
Trump made the announcement on his Reality Social web page on Friday, saying the U.S. “should stand firmly for spiritual freedom and in opposition to the persecution of Christians anyplace on this planet.”
The choice marked a return to the designation first made throughout Trump’s administration in December 2020, when the U.S. State Division listed Nigeria beneath the Worldwide Non secular Freedom Act as a nation engaged in or tolerating extreme violations of non secular liberty. That designation was later eliminated by President Joe Biden’s administration in 2021, drawing criticism from spiritual {groups} and U.S. lawmakers who stated violence in opposition to Christians in Nigeria had worsened.
Recall that the lawmaker representing West Virginia’s Second District in america Home of Congress, Riley M. Moore, has written to President Donald Trump, calling on the US authorities to designate Nigeria as a Nation of Specific Concern, CPC, over what he described because the “systematic persecution and slaughter of Christians”.
