In a recent series of attacks over the course of three days, 26 Christians have been killed or kidnapped in Nigeria.

Fulani Muslim militants were behind the north-central Nigeria attacks, CBN News reports.

The attacks occurred April 23 to 25. More than 1,000 people were driven from their homes during raids on five villages in the Kaduna state.

13 Christians were killed in the attacks. 13 more believers have been kidnapped.

The Kikwari and Kijeni communities in Kajuru County were invaded on April 25 around 3:00 p.m., says Southern Kaduna People's Union spokesman Luka Binniyat.

Binniyat says armed herdsmen stormed Kikwrari village and shot three people before taking livestock and food.

"As the overpowered Christians made bids to escape, some were rounded up and herded into the vast forest," Binniyat says.

"To date, no one has any information about their conditions."

Binniyat says more than 1,000 displaced villagers are trying to find lodging with family members in other villages, a difficult feat, given the COVID-19 lockdowns throughout the country.

Binniyat has asked both federal and state governments to rescue the believers who were kidnapped and to take action against their attackers.

"We want the government to do something urgently because Christians are being killed or abducted almost on a daily basis," Peter Aboki, president of the Gbagyi Development Union in Kaduna state adds.

These areas where Christians have been attacked and forced to flee are not safe for Christians to return. Aboki calls them "no-go areas" due to the "deadly activities of herdsmen."

The Fulani herdsmen are a group that herds cattle over vast areas. They are semi-nomadic and live in Nigeria's central regions. The majority of herdsmen are Muslim.

On the 2020 Wolrd Watch List released by Open Doors, Nigeria is ranked as the 12th worst country for persecution of Christians in the world.

Christian Solidarity International issued a genocide warning for Nigeria earlier this year, asking the United Nations Security Council to take action against the "rising tide of violence directed against Nigerian Christians and others classified as 'infidels' by Islamist militants."