[huldah1776]

do we know how many people are killed in closed nations? how many Saddam Hussein killed? China? NK? INDIA?

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/04/14/christian-persecution-how-many-are-being-killed-where-are-being-killed.html

[BroJoeK]

Thanks for your link:

"Open Doors documented as many as 1,207 Christians who were killed around the globe for faith-related reasons during the 2017 list’s reporting period."

So there are 1,207 documented cases in one year, a huge number if reported the same way we see airplane crashes reported.
But it's not 90,000 and where are those others coming from, North Korea?

"The Christian population in Iraq alone has plummeted from 1.5 million in 2003 to current estimates of 275,000.
In a few years that number could be zero, activists say."

Understood, and in places like North Korea that number is doubtless already virtually zero, in which case the numbers persecuted & killed must also be near zero.
I'm not trying to be cute here, just wondering why these numbers seem so... ah, amorphous?