; Whereas, for over a decade, Islamic terror organizations have carried out mass murder, rape, kidnappings, and other atrocities on Nigerians of various ethnic and religious backgrounds, causing unspeakable suffering and displacement, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reports that this has resulted in over 3 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) in northeastern Nigeria, and 343,000 registered refugee Nigerians in the Lake Chad region; Whereas terrorist group Boko Haram, whose name means Western education is forbidden , kidnapped over 200 mostly Christian schoolgirls in 2014 in Chibok, Borno State; 100 remain captive and are sexually abused and pressured to convert to Islam, and Leah Sharibu, a Christian, remains captive and enslaved following a terrorist raid of her school, in Dapchi, Yobe State, in 2018; Whereas the British All Party Parliament Group (APPG) report of 2020 finds that some Fulani herders demonstrated a clear intent to target Christians and symbols of Christian identity such as churches , and, during attacks, shouted Allah u Akbar , destroy the infidels , and wipe out the infidels , and on January 15, 2023, assailants reportedly attacked New Life for All Church in Katsina, shooting and wounding the pastor and kidnapping up to 25 in the congregation, including 5 women and girls; Whereas, on June 5, 2022, for the first time in southern Nigeria, a church was attacked during a Pentecost Sunday Mass, when terrorists massacred 40 worshippers and wounded scores more in a shooting attack on St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Owo City, in Ondo State, and none of the suspects have been convicted and sentenced; Whereas the Department of State mischaracterizes or incompletely characterizes the increasing incidents of large scale violence in Nigeria’s northern and central rural regions as communal clashes between Muslim herders and Christian farmers, solely attributable to competition for scarce natural resources resulting from climate change