The Biden administration is facing pressure from numerous conservative, human rights and religious organizations for failing to designate Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern ("CPC") for the brutal killing of over 200 Christians during Christmas season massacres perpetrated by Muslims.
On Jan. 4, Blinken announced that he'd designated a series of countries, including Iran and Russia, as a CPC, but Nigeria was notably left off the list.
In a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, two dozen interest groups, led by Advancing American Freedom and including ConservativeHQ.com, Alliance Defending Freedom, the Hudson Institute, former Ambassador Sam Brownback and former defense and national security officials, excoriated the State Department for its "refusal" to designate Nigeria as a CPC – calling the lack of action "unconscionable."
The letter notes that the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety), a Nigeria-based nonprofit, has found that more than 52,000 Christians have been killed and more than 14 million Christians have been forced to flee Nigeria since 2009.
Over that same period, Intersociety documented that 18,000 churches and 2,200 schools had been attacked.
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