Secretary of State Antony Blinken determined that Nigeria and India do not meet the threshold to be designated as “countries of particular concern” under the International Religious Freedom Act, the State Department confirmed to The Daily Signal.
Though the State Department is still refusing to designate either of those nations as a “Country of Particular Concern,” or CPC, the State Department press office told The Daily Signal that it is concerned about some Nigerian state governments’ enforcement of blasphemy laws against the African nation’s citizens who are expressing their religious beliefs and about the attacks on religious minority communities in India.
The State Department’s response to The Daily Signal comes as international religious freedom advocates press the department to explain why the Biden administration excluded Nigeria and India from a…
