Open Doors USA, a nonprofit group which tracks persecution of Christianity around the world, ranked Nigeria as No. 'We hope the State Department will reassess and maybe recognize the realities in Nigeria for what they are.' 'It did take some of us by surprise and disappointed us,' he said. 'I think what's happening there is horrible.'Ĭommissioner Fred Davie, a Democratic appointee, also questioned the move. 'There's just no way you can say that everything's fine now in Nigeria,' Carr, a Republican appointee, said. The decision to drop Nigeria from the lists is puzzling, according to James Carr, a commission member from Searcy. Prior to December 2020, Nigeria had been on the State Department's 'special watch list' for countries that fail to meet that higher threshold but nonetheless engage in or tolerate other 'severe violations of religious freedom.'Įarlier this year, the commission had recommended that Nigeria remain on the list, arguing that religious freedom conditions there had deteriorated. The Trump administration had designated Nigeria as a 'country of particular concern' one year ago, indicating it had engaged in or allowed particularly severe 'systematic, ongoing, egregious violations of religious freedom.'

Commission on International Religious Freedom were dismayed by the state department's decision last month to remove Nigeria from a list of countries with 'severe violations of religious freedom.'

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