Nigeria

Terrorism by the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) stretched into Taraba state, Nigeria for the first time on April 19, killing six Christians, sources said.

Fulani herdsmen and others on Tuesday night (April 26) attacked four villages in Kaduna state, Nigeria, killing 18 Christians and burning down 92 houses, sources said.

Armed terrorists on Thursday night (March 31) raided a predominantly Christian suburb of Kaduna city in northern Nigeria, killing three Christians and wounding three others, sources said.

A Roman Catholic priest was among 45 Christians abducted by Fulani herdsmen and other terrorists who raided at least six villages in Niger state, Nigeria last weekend (March 26-27).

Fulani herdsmen on Thursday (March 24) killed an estimated 50 Christians and abducted a Catholic priest in attacks on communities in an area of Kaduna state, Nigeria, area sources said.

More than 100 suspected Fulani herdsmen and Islamic extremist terrorists on Sunday night (March 20) killed 32 civilians, two soldiers and possibly abducted a woman in an attack on a predominantly Christian town in Nigeria, sources said.

Suspected Fulani herdsmen on Thursday (March 17) kidnapped 46 Christians and a number of their children in an attack in Kaduna state, Nigeria, sources said.

A church security guard was killed in the kidnapping of a Roman Catholic priest at about 1 a.m. on Tuesday (March 8) in Kaduna state, Nigeria, sources said.

According to Joe Parkinson and Drew Hinshaw, the story of the kidnapped Christian Chibok school girls holds a surprising but important lesson for Africa’s most populous nation:

“At times it could be easy [to] adopt the facile hope that Nigeria’s problems might be resolved by gradually secularizing its more than 210 million people. Yet we found a different perspective in a group of young women who had faced unimaginable hardship and survived. Their faith provided twin anchors of identity and hope during a period when their captors were trying to erase both.… [it] became the language of their resistance.”

Suspected Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists on Friday, February 25, killed three Christians in an attack on northeast Nigeria’s Chibok area, residents said.