{"id":76291,"date":"2025-10-08T17:21:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T17:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76291"},"modified":"2025-10-08T17:21:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T17:21:23","slug":"reps-reject-u-s-senates-genocide-claim-against-christians-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/08\/reps-reject-u-s-senates-genocide-claim-against-christians-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Reps Reject U.S. Senate\u2019s Genocide Claim Against Christians in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The House of Representatives has dismissed as false and misleading the claim by the U.S. Senate that Nigeria is witnessing a \u201cgenocide against Christians\u201d or engaging in state-sponsored religious persecution.<\/p>\n<p>The resolution followed a motion by Deputy Speaker Benjamin Kalu on Wednesday, in reaction to the U.S. Senate Bill 2747 and comments by Senator Riley Moore, who urged Washington to redesignate Nigeria as a \u201cCountry of Particular Concern\u201d (CPC) and suspend arms sales over alleged persecution of Christians.<\/p>\n<p>Kalu said the narrative misrepresents Nigeria\u2019s complex security challenges, stressing that violence in the country is driven by terrorism, banditry, farmer-herder clashes, and communal conflicts, not religion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe House rejects narratives that frame Nigeria\u2019s security crisis as religious or state-sponsored persecution,\u201d he stated, adding that the Constitution guarantees freedom of religion and prohibits any state religion.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmakers directed the Committees on Foreign Affairs, National Security, and Information to liaise with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Nigeria\u2019s Embassy in Washington to file a diplomatic protest within 21 days.<\/p>\n<p>Kalu reaffirmed Nigeria\u2019s commitment to religious freedom and peace, urging the United States to engage with verified local data before making policy pronouncements.<\/p>\n<p>The House also called for stronger diplomatic engagement with the U.S. to preserve Nigeria\u2019s image and sovereignty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata &nbsp; The House of Representatives has dismissed as false and misleading the claim by the U.S. Senate that Nigeria is witnessing a \u201cgenocide against Christians\u201d or engaging in state-sponsored religious persecution. The resolution followed a motion by Deputy Speaker Benjamin Kalu on Wednesday, in reaction to the U.S. Senate Bill 2747 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":76292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,1681],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-religion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76293,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76291\/revisions\/76293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}