This is where Baku is. There’s hardly any non-muslims in the country, and the muslims aren’t very devout. Sounds more like somebody wants somebody’s property...again. Otherwise they could just up the tax on the last few Christians around.
They may as well be reading from the Sacred Scrolls on Planet of the Apes.
That said, there is a hatred of Christ there, just like any other part of the world that persecutes him, from the DPRK to almost every single Muslim nation on the planet.