{"id":79542,"date":"2025-12-02T09:17:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T09:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=79542"},"modified":"2025-12-02T09:17:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T09:17:53","slug":"us-lawmakers-set-for-briefing-on-alleged-persecution-of-christians-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/02\/us-lawmakers-set-for-briefing-on-alleged-persecution-of-christians-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"US Lawmakers Set for Briefing on Alleged Persecution of Christians in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. House Appropriations Committee will on Tuesday hold a joint congressional briefing in Washington, D.C., on the alleged persecution of Christians in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>According to a notice shared by Congressman Riley Moore on X, the session will be convened by Committee Vice Chair and National Security Subcommittee Chairman Mario D\u00edaz-Balart, alongside members of the Appropriations, Foreign Affairs, and Financial Services Committees.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives from the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and other experts are expected to give testimony.<\/p>\n<p>The briefing aims to \u201cspotlight escalating violence and targeted persecution of Christians in Nigeria\u201d and gather input for a comprehensive report \u201cdirected by President Trump on the massacre of Nigerian Christians and steps Congress can take to support White House efforts to protect vulnerable faith communities worldwide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The session comes amid deepening U.S.-Nigeria security cooperation, following Nigeria\u2019s approval of its delegation to the new U.S.-Nigeria Joint Working Group on counterterrorism, intelligence sharing, border security, and humanitarian coordination.<\/p>\n<p>Rising concerns over terrorism, banditry, and attacks on Christian communities have intensified scrutiny from U.S. lawmakers and renewed calls for stronger protections for religious minorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado The U.S. House Appropriations Committee will on Tuesday hold a joint congressional briefing in Washington, D.C., on the alleged persecution of Christians in Nigeria. According to a notice shared by Congressman Riley Moore on X, the session will be convened by Committee Vice Chair and National Security Subcommittee Chairman Mario D\u00edaz-Balart, alongside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":79543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1724,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insecurity","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79542","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=79542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79544,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79542\/revisions\/79544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}