From : ChristianToday
Persecution hotspots in 2012
Christians are coming under increasing suspicion in North Korea. Practising Christianity is banned in the closed-off communist country and anyone caught with a Bible faces torture, imprisonment and possibly death.
Christians in Iran, where the Christian faith is regarded as a threat to the Islamic revolution, have been arrested, beaten, imprisoned and killed for their faith there. Other forms of harassment include expelling Christians from jobs and universities, phone tapping and using relatives to spy on them.
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