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Washington, DC \u2014 Nigerian Christians targeted, massacred solely because of their faith.<\/em><\/p>\n U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (NJ-04), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs\u00a0Subcommittee on Africa, held a congressional hearing on the ongoing religious freedom violations in Nigeria.\u00a0 Expert witnesses joined in Smith\u2019s appeal to Secretary Marco Rubio to redesignate Africa\u2019s most populous nation as a \u201cCountry of Particular Concern,\u201d a designation President Trump used in his first term to help persecuted…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Washington, DC \u2014 Nigerian Christians targeted, massacred solely because of their faith. U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (NJ-04), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs\u00a0Subcommittee on Africa, held a congressional hearing on the ongoing religious freedom violations in Nigeria.\u00a0 Expert witnesses joined in Smith\u2019s appeal to Secretary Marco Rubio to redesignate Africa\u2019s most populous nation as a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":193575,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[7115,258,256,8992,7167,5042,257,4687,393,50867,254,6264],"class_list":["post-193574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-administration","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-appeal","tag-concern","tag-country","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-redesignate","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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