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The U.S. House Subcommittee on Africa held a hearing Thursday on the persecution of Christians in Nigeria, in what subcommittee chairman Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., described as the “systematic and accelerating violence against predominantly Christian communities in Nigeria.”

Members from both parties questioned administration officials and outside experts as witness after witness described the collapse of security, mass killings, kidnappings, and the impunity that has turned Africa’s most populous country into what one lawmaker called “the deadliest place on Earth to be a Christian.”

Smith, who has long been sounding the alarm about the persecution of Christians in the country, described the situation in vivid terms.

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