The Fourth Circuit has adopted an expansive reading of asylum claims based on religious persecution. The Fourth Circuit found that the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) had erred in finding that there was no nexus between a death threat received by the asylum applicant and the protected ground of her religion. Instead, the Fourth Circuit adopted a broad interpretation of the nexus requirement, finding that that the applicant’s Christian Pentecostal religion was “one central reason” for the death threat that she endured by gang members in El Salvador, even though the threat was not motivated by a desire to hinder or impede her religious practice.