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Genocide in Nigeria happening before our eyes Religious organizations urge the American government to pressure the Nigerian state to provide protection Trending Parents of abducted schoolboys wait outside a camp to receive their children on their release in Katsina, Nigeria, on Dec. 18. (Photo: Kola Sulaimon/AFP) The Catholic bishop of Gboko, Nigeria, and the Knights of Columbus added their voices to a Dec. 17 congressional hearing spotlighting sectarian violence in Nigeria in which thousands of Christians have been killed simply for their faith identity. The hearing of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission was spurred by recent developments: the fatal shooting of 51 peaceful protesters in Lagos Oct. 20; the kidnapping of over 300 schoolboys in Kankara, which government officials there said was instigated by bandits masquerading as the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram; and the Dec. 7 State Department designation of Nigeria as a country of particular concern under the In

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