During the Christmas period when many people are switched off from the news, up to 200 Christians were killed in a series of terror attacks over two days on villages in the north-central Plateau state in Nigeria.
221 homes were burned, local reports say, as were churches, and in addition to those who were killed, more than 300 people were left injured. The attackers, armed with guns and machetes, hacked many of their victims to death, Intersociety, a Nigerian organisation which seeks to tackle religious persecution, says.