[Opinion] Bipartisan watchdog criticizes Biden State Dept.'s omissions in religious freedom designations

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Watchdog Rips State Dept. Decision to Give Nigeria, India a Pass on Religious Freedom, Again

Indian Christians at prayer in a Catholic Church in Bangalore. (Photo by Dibyangshu Sarkar / AFP via Getty Images) (CNSNews.com) – The State Department’s decision to exclude Nigeria and India from a blacklist of countries where severe religious persecution is occurring has drawn a sharp rebuke from a statutory watchdog, which called the decision “inexplicable.” In its second set of annual “country of particular concern” (CPC) designations under…