There are places where Christians disappear just because they are Christian. People of different belief systems see the Religion of Love as a threat. Nothing is more alluring in life than love. Nothing is more powerful than love. The Gospel story is that love is so powerful it defeats even death. So people who worship idols or want worshiped themselves still persecute Christians to this day.
Even in places of relative freedom of religion, the powers at the top are thoroughly corrupted to many degrees. You can’t really get elected unless you take bribes or your campaign will not be seen from a marketing standpoint. Since basically everyone is bribed, and main stream media runs as extensions of political think tanks, policy is put in play that is bad for the people while they say why it is good for you. High rent, housing prices and homelessness even among our veterans are one of many things that are a result of such policy. Others say the deliberate gutting of the middle class so the country is more feudalistic is another thing. So even in the US, the guys at the top aren’t even good guys and gals though they want to be seen as such. Are we better? We try to be, but until you remove bribery from elected officials and places like the FCC, things will probably get worse.
The corrupt leaders we see in so many other countries are willing to let their people die, in order to secure more power. With the guns/butter slider, there are places like Yemen and North Korea where they starve their people on purpose to keep them under control. All this corruption of high places where leaders are okay with anyone dying to get them more money, power and the illusion of respect makes you think… Would a guy like Jesus all about goodness and love make it in many places in the world today? A guy like Jesus today might still be executed today. So 2000 years ago when things were more brutal… it is very believable that they crucified the Son of God.