{"id":1761030,"date":"2022-12-03T12:33:18","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T17:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1761030"},"modified":"2022-12-03T12:33:24","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T17:33:24","slug":"appalling-biden-admin-blasted-for-leaving-nigeria-off-religious-violence-list-after-reportedly-thousands-of-killings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/appalling-biden-admin-blasted-for-leaving-nigeria-off-religious-violence-list-after-reportedly-thousands-of-killings\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Appalling\u2019: Biden Admin Blasted For Leaving Nigeria Off Religious Violence List After Reportedly Thousands Of Killings"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fappalling-biden-admin-blasted-for-leaving-nigeria-off-religious-violence-list-after-reportedly-thousands-of-killings%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1761030&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/biden-administration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biden administration<\/a> has kept <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/nigeria\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nigeria<\/a> off of a religious liberty watchlist for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/victory-for-the-terrorists-blinken-faces-backlash-after-taking-nigeria-off-of-religious-violence-list\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">second year<\/a> in a row even as thousands of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/christianity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christians<\/a> have been reportedly killed in the African nation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the State Department drew the ire of religious liberty advocates for leaving Nigeria off its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/religious-freedom-designations-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">list<\/a> of \u201cCountries of Particular Concern list,\u201d a government watch list for countries that endorse or allow religious violence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSecretary Blinken\u2019s continued refusal to place Nigeria on the list of Countries of Particular Concern (CPC) when the Biden administration should be confronting President Buhari is appalling,\u201d said Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2022\/dec\/2\/religious-liberty-panel-others-blast-blinken-omitt\/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&#038;utm_medium=twitter&#038;utm_source=socialnetwork\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to the Washington Times.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Smith, the ranking member of the Africa subcommittee for the House Foreign Affairs Committee, added that there would be oversight over the decision with the new Congress in January.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe deterioration of human rights in Nigeria \u2014 the topic of congressional hearings I have chaired \u2014 and the Biden administration\u2019s totally unjustified retreat from the fight to protect victims of religious persecution means there will be an oversight item in the new Congress,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the State Department told the Times that Secretary of State <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/antony-blinken\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Antony Blinken<\/a> \u201cdetermined that the status of religious freedom in Nigeria did not meet the legal threshold\u201d to be included on the list.\u201d The spokesperson added that Nigeria was still a \u201cconcern\u201d and that the State Department would \u201cpress\u201d the country\u2019s government to address religious liberty concerns.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>United State Commissioner on International Religious Freedom Chair Nury Turkel disagreed with Blinken\u2019s decision, saying that conditions in Nigeria \u201cclearly\u201d merited its inclusion on the list.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The decision to keep Nigeria off the list came following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/nigeria-4000-christians-killed-over-2300-abducted-this-year.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports<\/a> that thousands of Christians have been killed or abducted this year in the West African nation. According to a report put out last month by the International Society for Civil Liberty and Rule of Law, over 4,000 Christians have been killed and 2,000 kidnapped by Islamic jihadist groups.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The group accused Nigeria\u2019s government of being being \u201cfriendly\u201d to some of the terrorist groups, while others have demanded the government take more action to crack down on Christian persecution.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Before the State Department\u2019s decision, the Alliance Defending Freedom and Established By Revelation Media put out a <a href=\"https:\/\/stopkillingchristians.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">petition<\/a> urging the Biden administration to put Nigeria back on the CPC list.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot remain silent while our brothers and sisters are being persecuted and martyred for their faith. The killings must stop. The torture must stop. The least we can do as Americans is take a stand by acknowledging the very real evil taking place in Nigeria at this time,\u201d the petition said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria is ranked as the seventh most difficult country in the world to be a Christian, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opendoorsusa.org\/christian-persecution\/world-watch-list\/nigeria\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to Open Doors, a group that monitors Christian persecution around the world. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration has kept Nigeria off of a religious liberty watchlist for the second year in a row even as thousands of Christians have been reportedly killed in the African nation.\u00a0 On Friday, the State Department drew the ire of religious liberty advocates for leaving Nigeria off its list of \u201cCountries of Particular Concern &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":1761033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1761030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1761030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1761033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1761030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1761030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1761030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}