So tell us about Yemen
I don't know anything about Maldives...or even where exactly it is.
From what I know about North Korea, is the US had a hand in dividing the country North and South. Before that it was just Korea. Imagine if your country got divided North and South or East and West, and all the Christians could only live in one part?!
Also what happened with India and Pakistan which was partitioned into Hindu and Moslem majorities, but I don't know where the Christian believers went. The British did that. I don't know really why, something to do with colonialism, which did not always go hand-in-hand with missionaries.
Yemen once had a meaningful Jewish and Christian presence before Islam, but over centuries Christianity disappeared under political pressure, Islamic dominance, and social restrictions.
Today Yemen is one of the hardest places on earth for believers: open Christian practice is illegal, conversion is forbidden, and the few Christians who exist live underground or as foreign workers.
The country’s long civil war and tribal structure only deepen the danger for anyone outside the dominant religious identity.
The Maldives is a tiny island nation southwest of India, officially 100% Muslim by constitutional requirement.
Citizens cannot legally convert, evangelize, or publicly practice Christianity, and only foreign workers can be Christians at all.
It is one of the most restrictive environments in the world for religious freedom, with the government enforcing Islamic identity as a condition of citizenship.
Before 1945, Korea was a single nation — and the north was actually the region where Christianity thrived most, with Pyongyang once called “the Jerusalem of the East.”
After WWII, the Soviets occupied the north and the Americans the south, dividing the peninsula at the 38th parallel; the Korean War cemented the split.
Under the communist regime, Christians in the north were executed, imprisoned, or forced underground, turning what was once a Christian stronghold into one of the most dangerous places for believers in the world.
When the British left in 1947, they partitioned the region into Hindu‑majority India and Muslim‑majority Pakistan, based on demographics and political pressure rather than Christian presence.
Christians were a small minority scattered across both regions, so they remained where they lived rather than receiving a separate state.
Most Christians stayed in India, some in Pakistan, and a smaller number in what became Bangladesh — showing that colonial borders often left Christian minorities squeezed between larger religious blocs.