[[Can you provide a few links to stories about people getting arrested for publicly declaring their faith?]]
There are many- just google something like “People arrested for witnessing”
I get an email from Don at http://www.thesourcedaily.com/ and am always seeing articles about Christians being arrested for witnessing in public, for homeschooling parents being arrested and harrassed, for preachers being banned from publically professing their faith etc. There are many sites that keep track of Christian issues such as this. As well you can look up the law firm that represents Christians who are persecuted in this country- Can’t remember hte name but google “Law firm that represent Christians free of charge” or somethign similar- their caseloads are full of such cases.
If you are always get links to such information it should not be too much of a bother for you to share those links with us.