After Christmas attacks on Christians, Nigerian bishops raise concerns of Islamist agenda—and government complicity

As many as 295 people were killed in a series of apparently coordinated raids on some 30 villages in Nigeria’s Plateau State that began on Dec. 23 and continued through Christmas Day.

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