Shocking untold truth?

[Daniel G. Gibbens]

Since Feb. 12, Rick Duncan's ending quote reports a curious fact, and in
scanning I haven't seen any follow-up.  I'm curious, and rather than go to
the NY Times, the question is put here, what's the explanation?

> "The shocking untold truth of our time is that more Christians have
> died this century simply for being Christians than in the first
> nineteen centuries after the birth of Christ. They have been
> persecuted and martyred before an unknowing, indifferent world and a
> largely silent Christian community."
>            --A.M. Rosenthal (N.Y. Times, 2/11/97)
>

Dan Gibbens
University of Oklahoma College of Law