US Christian Leaders Welcome Trumps Spotlighting Persecution in Nigeria

The caskets of 38 Christian villagers killed by Fulani Muslim terrorists are arranged for a funeral Mass about two miles from Madamai, Nigeria, on Sept. 30, 2021. Luka Binniyat/The Epoch TimesChristian advocacy groups across the United States hailed President Donald Trump’s Oct. 31 decision to again designate Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC) due to rising attacks on Christians in Africa’s most populous nation.The action restores Nigeria to the U.S. government’s highest tier for religious-freedom offenders, a status the country last held in late 2020. Trump originally authorized the listing that year following years of violent persecution by Islamist terrorist groups such as Boko Haram and the ISIS–West Africa.