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State officials walk past injured victims on hospital beds being treated for wounds following an attack by gunmen at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Owo, southwest Nigeria, on June 5, 2022. | AFP via Getty Images

Human Rights Commission "outraged" as State Department Excludes Nigeria from Watchlist

Dec 10, 2022

For the second year in a row Nigeria has been left off of the U.S. State Department’s list of countries that engage in or tolerate the world’s worst religious freedom violations, despite regular reports of kidnappings and killings of Christians, sparking outcry from members of a bipartisan government watchdog group. 

Displaced Nigerians camped near St. Francis Xavier Parish in Agagbe, Nigeria, in 2022. | Courtesy of Adakole Daniel

Human Rights Activists Call on US State Department to Return Nigeria to Religious Freedom

Sep 21, 2022

Human rights advocates are calling on U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken to put Nigeria back on a list of the world’s worst violators of religious freedom in light of increasing attacks against Christians.