Ohio Republican and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan confirmed his support for former President Donald Trump for the 2024 presidential election.

Jordan told Fox News on Friday that former Vice President Mike Pence and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who are both expected to announce a presidential bid soon, are “great guy[s],” but Trump has his full support going into the GOP presidential primary. The House Republican’s comments come as the GOP primary heats up and two weeks after Trump was charged with 34 felony counts for his alleged hush money payments to porn actress Stormy Daniels.

“I just talked to Vice President [Mike] Pence. Great guy … Governor DeSantis, a great guy. When we formed the Freedom Caucus, there were nine of us. He was one of the nine. But I am 100% for President Trump,” Jordan said.

Jordan said that he supports Trump because, during his four years in Washington, D.C., he proved he will stick to his promises.

“No one has demonstrated that they will do what they said and get things done like he did, and he did it with everyone in that town against him,” he said. “And that’s what I still respect about President Trump, and I’m for him all the way.”

Jordan has stood by the former president as Trump faces his criminal trial in Manhattan, launching an inquiry into the unprecedented investigation of an ex-president. Last week, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee subpoenaed former New York County Special Assistant District Attorney Mark Pomerantz, who has pursued criminal charges against Trump. Pomerantz abruptly resigned along with one other prosecutor leading the Trump inquiry in February of last year after Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg reportedly expressed doubts about the case he inherited from his predecessor.

Pomerantz’s public statements about the investigation “strongly suggest that Bragg’s prosecution of President Trump is politically motivated,” according to Jordan.

Bragg sued Jordan earlier this week, seeking to block congressional subpoenas linked to the Manhattan district attorney’s investigation of Trump and accusing Jordan of “obstruction and interference.”

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Trump, who consistently leads polls for the GOP nomination by double digits, now adds Jordan’s name to a growing list of Republicans who have publicly come out in support of him for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. Six senators and at least 40 House members, including Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN), Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), and Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) have all endorsed or expressed that they are behind Trump for 2024.

Trump is currently up against three other declared Republican candidates. Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, and former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson have all announced their campaigns for the White House. DeSantis and Pence, along with Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), are widely expected to jump into the race in the coming weeks or months.

Daniel Chaitin contributed to this report.

A new report has estimated that over 5,000 Nigerian Christians were killed in 2022 while over 3,000 were kidnapped.

The report, put out by the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety), comes as some religious freedom advocates have said that the persecution of Christians in the African nation should be seen as genocide.

“[Intersociety] is emotionally dedicating this special investigative Report to 1,041 slain and disappeared victims of the Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen and other Jihadists’ genocidal attacks carried out across Nigeria in the first 100 days of 2023,” the report says. “The under-listed slain and wounded victims also represent 5,068 others slain or caused to disappear without traces till date by Nigerian Jihadists in 2022.”

The estimates were based on reports from a variety of sources, including media outlets, government reports, nongovernmental organizations statistics, and estimates from diplomats. The report also said that over 1,000 Christians have been killed in 2023.

Intersociety said that the violence was most prevalent in the states of Benue, Kaduna, Plateau, Taraba, Niger, Borno, Yobe, Adamawa, and Kebbi, according to The Christian Post. Violence has long plagued the African country, with the northern part being more Islamic and the southern region more Christian.

The perpetrators are believed to be members of radical Islamic terror groups, including Fulani herdsmen groups, Boko Haram, and ISAWP (Islamic State West Africa Province). According to the report, the Nigerian military is also responsible for some of the killings. Many Nigerian Christians have long asked for the government to do more to stop the killings and have accused them of encouraging the violence.

The report, which was compiled by criminologist Emeka Umeagbalasi, is also critical of Christian leaders in the country. “The dry material quest and lackadaisical attitudes of the Nigerian Christian leaders are also forcing Christian converts to leave the Church in droves to embrace other non-Christian denominations,” the report says. “It must be warned that if extreme care is not taken to rescue the Christendom and the Church, the churches or church buildings in Nigeria will become the present day Turkish church monuments in fifty years time or less than that.”

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The news comes just months after the Biden administration kept Nigeria off of a religious liberty watchlist for the second year in a row. In December, the State Department drew the ire of religious liberty advocates for leaving Nigeria off its list of “Countries of Particular Concern list,” a government watch list for countries that endorse or allow religious violence.