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.

According to The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) 2022 annual report, the Burmese military is closely associated with Buddhist nationalism which has led to a rise in the persecution of Christian communities.

Twenty-one Christian farmers were killed by Fulani militants in four different villages of Kauru local government in Kaduna State. The attackers came around 4:00pm local time on April 26. “The militants killed Irigwe Christians and burnt houses and a church,” Ezekiel Bini—a tribal leader—told ICC.

A congregation of 100 Christians in Uttar Pradesh’s Fathepur District were threatened by a Hindu mob who surrounded the church and locked the doors. The police arrested them after the mob’s leader, Himanshu Dikshit, complained that the church was working to convert Hindus to the Christian faith. While most of the congregation has been freed from the locked church, 36 remain in jail on forced conversion charges.

Eight Christians were kidnapped by Fulani Militants on Good Friday in Jos, Plateau State. Four were released after paying a $2,000 ransom. A woman among them related to an ICC staffer said that she was raped several times by two leaders of the Fulani Militants. “The militant told us, after receiving the ransom money, that they got money to kill more Christians,” she said.

The headteacher of a private Islamic school in eastern Uganda suffered third-degree burns and was fired after staff members heard him praying as a Christian, he said.

Fulani militants killed 14 Christians, including women and children, in Nigeria’s Benue State on Monday night. The attack happened around midnight in the Tarka Local Government Area, close to the state capital of Makurdi.