Rapper and musician Nicki Minaj thanked President Donald Trump for his leadership on “urgent action” against Christian persecution in Nigeria on Tuesday, saying that freedom of religion is a cause that should bring humanity together.

Minaj, whose legal name is Onika Tanya Maraj-Petty, was invited to a United Nations conference in New York City after she praised Trump’s attention to the persecution in Nigeria. Experts told the Washington Examiner that the violence in the West African nation goes beyond the persecution of Christians , who make up 48.1% of its population.

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