Frank Wolf: “This is the country that has 30 Catholic priests in jail and has plundered Tibet and is spying on us.”

Our conclusion from that visit and many others, the ongoing research continues to be that the government of Nigeria is perpetrating and tolerating a systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of freedom of religion or belief.

Let me be clear. Nigeria clearly meets the CPC standard under USCIRF, not only based on evidence that public reported but what should be reflected in the State Department's own reporting.

Despite our analysis and recommendation, the State Department has only recognized the severity of the religious freedom violation in Nigeria twice.

We are not affording them the same protections when they're clearly, clearly an attacked religious minority.