YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – As the persecution of Christians continues to define the news in Nigeria, members of the U.S. Congress has passed a resolution calling on the Trump administration to re-designate Africa’s most populous nation as a “Country of Particular Concern.”
The Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, Rep. Chris Smith of New Jersey, presented House Resolution 220, which expresses “the need to designate Nigeria a Country of Particular Concern” (CPC) during a committee hearing on the matter March 12.