Nigerian Christians experienced deadly suspected jihadist attacks in at least five states on Easter Sunday, the holiest day on the Christian calendar – involving direct attacks on Easter services, mass abductions, and indiscriminate firing on local victims.
The attacks followed a massacre that killed at least 30 people on Palm Sunday, the Sunday before Easter that marks the opening of Holy Week, in Plateau state, one of the deadliest places in Nigeria to practice the Christian faith.
Human rights experts routinely rank Nigeria the deadliest place in the world to practice Christianity as a result of the large annual death tolls of Christians in targeted attacks. The perpetrators are typically members of a variety of Muslim terrorist organizations, most prominently the Islamic State, Boko Haram, and the genocidal Fulani terrorists of the Middle Belt. Nigerian Christians often protest that, despite the clear identity of their assailants, the federal
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