More or Less: Behind the Stats - 100,000 Christian martyrs?

It is claimed an average of 100,000 Christians have died because of their faith every year for the past decade: and that this is an 'unreported catastrophe'. The Vatican has called it a credible number. But is it? Ruth Alexander and Wesley Stephenson report.

Published on Saturday, 2nd November 2013.

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