The U.S. government would also host in Washington DC between July 25 and July 26 foreign ministers and religious leaders from around the world to discuss religious freedom. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom, Samuel Brownback, announced at a press briefing in Washington D.C. on Tuesday that he would be traveling to Nigeria in June to discuss religious freedom with government officials and religious leaders. In the report, you talked about the religious freedom in Nigeria, and you said it continues to experience significant challenges. And I’ve been meeting with a number of different Nigerian leaders, and it’s been a very difficult – I met with three leaders, Christian leaders, last week. But the government has the right and the responsibility to protect that religious freedom right, and that’s what we’d be pushing with Nigeria.

Source: The North Africa Journal May 29, 2018 22:51 UTC