By Godswill Udoh Published Friday, November 21, 2025 The chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, Representative Chris Smith, opened a hearing on Thursday with a stark warning about what he described as rapidly escalating, religion-driven violence in Nigeria, calling President Donald J. Trump’s recent redesignation of the country as a “Country of Particular Concern” a necessary and overdue alarm bell. Mr. Smith, a New Jersey Republican who has spent decades spotlighting abus... Read more

Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, issued the following statement in response to the gruesome attack on St. Mary’s Catholic Primary and Secondary Schools in Niger state, Nigeria, wherein gunmen assaulted and abducted staff and approximately 52 students: “My wife, Marie, and I are absolutely appalled to hear of the monstrous attack on St. Mary’s Catholic Schools in Nigeria, which took place early this morning. So far, this vicious assault has r... Read more

By Mary Margaret Olohan Published November 21, 2025 WASHINGTON—Republicans are calling on the Department of Health and Human Services to take “immediate action” to reinstate safety requirements on abortion drugs, highlighting a growing body of evidence showing that the drugs are causing severe and underreported harm to women. In a letter first obtained by The Daily Wire, New Jersey Rep. Christopher Smith and Tennessee Rep. Diana Harshbarger call on Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. K... Read more

On Friday, November 21st, Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Africa Subcommittee, joined EWTN News Nightly to provide an overview of the ongoing religious persecution crisis in Nigeria and respond to the attack and abduction of students and staff at St. Mary’s Catholic Schools. The full interview can be viewed by clicking here. ### Read more

From torture to mass incarcerations, to forced live organ harvesting—over the last few decades, Congressman Chris Smith has helped shine a light on the deteriorating human rights conditions in mainland China. NTD's Steve Lance sat down with him to talk about the Chinese Communist Party's assault on religious freedom and why it's important to prioritize human rights in trade. The full interview can be viewed by clicking here. ### Read more

By Didi Tang Published November 21, 2025 at 10:02 PM EST WASHINGTON (AP) — The daughter of a detained Chinese Christian pastor is urging U.S. lawmakers to help free her father at a time when President Donald Trump has vowed to “save our Great Christian population” worldwide. Appearing before a congressional panel Thursday, Grace Jin Drexel said her father, Ezra Jin Mingri, was formally charged this week along with 17 other leaders of the prominent underground Zion Church. They were detained in O... Read more

By Elise Winland Published November 21, 2025 Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., opened a Nov. 20 congressional hearing with a stark assessment of Beijing’s campaign against faith: China’s escalating assault on religious believers is both a moral crisis and a direct threat to U.S. national security. Smith began the hearing — titled “China’s War on Religion: The Threat to Religious Freedom and Why It Matters to the United States” — by underscoring the immediacy of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) repres... Read more

By Madalaine Elhabbal Published November 21, 2025 at 14:40 PM A Nigerian Catholic bishop said U.S. military intervention is warranted at a Nov. 20 hearing of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa. The hearing took place just days after an attack on a Catholic boarding school in western Nigeria in which children were abducted from the school’s hostel. “Nigeria is ground zero” for religious persecution, said the subcommittee’s chair, Rep. Chris Smith, R-New Jersey, at the hearing. ... Read more

By Frances Martel Published November 21, 2025 Nigerian Bishop Wilfred Anagbe, of the diocese of Makurdi in Benue state, testified before the House of Representatives on Thursday, detailing the “gory” violence Christians face regularly in the country and thanking President Donald Trump for designating Nigeria a religious freedom danger zone. President Trump announced on October 31 that he would return Nigeria to the State Department’s Country of Particular Concern (CPC) for religious freedom list... Read more

By Katherine Hamilton Published November 21, 2025 U.S. Reps. Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Diana Harshbarger (R-TN) led 175 House Republicans in a letter demanding the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) undo the Biden administration’s “mail-order abortion scheme” and investigate the potential safety risks of abortion pills. In 2021 under former President Joe Biden, the FDA removed the in-person dispensing requirement for abortion pills and allowed them ... Read more