State Department adds Nigeria to list of most serious religious freedom violators
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivers closing remarks with Ambassador Sam Brownback at the Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom on July 26, 2018, at the U.S. Department of State, in Washington. Photo by State Department/Creative Commons
(RNS) — The State Department redesignated nine other nations as ‘countries of particular concern’: Burma, China, Eritrea, Iran, North Korea, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan.