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The president of the United States of America president Donald J Trump in a meeting of the United Nations general assembly UNGA warns President Muhammadu Buhari and others on religious persecution.

Reports said that the President (Trump) made a surprise visit to a UN climate summit before heading off to host an event on religious freedoms.

“Today, with one clear voice, the United States of America calls on nations of the world to end religious persecution.

Our rights do not come from government, they come from God,” Trump said, noting that

"80 per cent of the world’s population faced restrictions on religious freedoms."



However he said that many religions on earth face prosecution, but much of his speech focused on Christians.

Remember

Donald Trump has been accused of anti-Muslim bias, because of his ban on most visas for citizens of several Muslim majority nations on his first term in office.

The United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres in the meeting said that

"Religious freedom is a pressing global issue"

Saying that governments should try to respect the right to express one’s own thoughts, religion and conscience.
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