{"id":85465,"date":"2026-02-24T10:34:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T10:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=85465"},"modified":"2026-02-24T10:34:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T10:34:35","slug":"lawmakers-sound-alarm-on-deadliest-place-on-earth-to-be-a-christian-as-nigeria-violence-escalates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/24\/lawmakers-sound-alarm-on-deadliest-place-on-earth-to-be-a-christian-as-nigeria-violence-escalates\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers sound alarm on \u2018deadliest place on earth to be a Christian\u2019 as Nigeria violence escalates"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/1200\/675\/Nigeria-Violence-Anal_Carm.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1\" alt=\"Dec. 25, 2011: Onlookers gather around a car destroyed in a blast next to St. Theresa Catholic Church in Madalla, Nigeria after an explosion ripped through a Catholic church during Christmas Mass near Nigeria's capital.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. House Subcommittee on Africa held a hearing Thursday on the persecution of Christians in Nigeria in what subcommittee Chairman Chris Smith, R-N.J.,\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/lawmakers-sound-alarm-deadliest-place-earth-christian-nigeria-violence-escalates?msockid=12b4c0d06794651f3162d4b266816444\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The U.S. House Subcommittee on Africa held a hearing Thursday on the persecution of Christians in Nigeria in what subcommittee Chairman Chris&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85465","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/US-strike-on-Nigeria.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85466,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85465\/revisions\/85466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}