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Displaced Nigerians camped near St. Francis Xavier Parish in Agagbe, Nigeria, in 2022. / Courtesy of Adakole DanielWashington D.C., Sep 20, 2022 / 17:00 pm (CNA).Human rights advocates are calling on U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken to put Nigeria back on a list of the world s worst violators of religious freedom in light of increasing attacks against Christians.In 2020, the State Department designated Nigeria a "Country of Particular Concern (CPC)" in the State Department s International Religious Freedom Report. The country was placed on the list "for having engaged in or tolerated particularly severe violations of religious freedom. " Then, in November 2021 the State Department removed Nigeria from the list of CPCs despite what observers say was an increasing number of attacks against Christians.In a Sept. 19 letter addressed to Blinken, 68 religious freedom NGOs and human rights experts called on the secretary of state to "designate Nigeria as a

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