The worst part of the State Department's new report on international religious freedom isn't the stories it tells, but the ones it doesn't. In some of the darkest corners of the world, a lot of people aren't even captured in the statistics. They just vanish -- victims of a brutal war that's been waging for centuries on faith.
The West has seen flashes of the cruelty in places like North Korea, where the simple act of bowing your head could be all the evidence the government needs to ship you to prison camp. There, refugees warn, you'll be beaten -- sometimes to death -- or die from something as simple as diarrhea because there's no access to medicine. It's a country where Christians trust no one. Kim Jong Un's spies are everywhere, trained to "uncover religious people." Even a secret prayer meeting could be a trap, organized by state officials to catch believers. Some Chinese pastors are even recruited and paid to turn in North Korean believers.
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