Nigerian Christians Need Protection
Breakpoint
Colson Center
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🗓️ 28 May 2024
⏱️ 1 minutes
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House resolution hopes to put the most martyred country back on the radar for protection against persecution.
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| 0:00.0 | With a one minute look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with the point. |
| 0:04.7 | According to open doors, a ministry that advocates for the persecuted church, quote, |
| 0:08.8 | more believers are killed for their faith in Nigeria each year than everywhere else in the world combined. |
| 0:14.0 | In fact, in 2022, over 5,000 Christians were killed in Nigeria. |
| 0:18.1 | That's nearly 90% of the total number of Christian martyrs that year. |
| 0:21.7 | And since 2009, 17,000 churches have been destroyed as well, |
| 0:25.6 | not to mention countless abductions in cases of abuse of young Christian girls. However, the government |
| 0:30.6 | has not acted in any meaningful way to protect the lives and the liberties of Christians or to punish Islamic persecutors. |
| 0:37.0 | This year, 30 U.S. congressional leaders have sponsored House Resolution 82, known as the Nigeria Resolution, which asked the State Department to |
| 0:44.5 | redesignate Nigeria as a country of particular concern. |
| 0:48.1 | The hope here is the resolution would be brought to the floor for a vote on June the 5th. |
| 0:52.0 | That's a two-year anniversary of the attack on St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church. |
| 0:56.4 | Please call your representative. |
| 0:58.0 | Ask them to protect Nigerian Christians and to support House Resolution 82. |
| 1:02.7 | I'm John Stone Street. |
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