. >> wendy: and i'm wendy griffith. open doors u.s.a. has released its annual watch list of the world's 50 worries offenders. most surprising, christians in africa are witnessing a surge in persecution there. mali jumped from unranked to number seven. tanzania, kenya, uganda, and argentina joined the list, and ethiopia climbed from 38 to 15. but north korea is the worst country in the world to be a christian. it topped the chart for the 11 year in a row, followed by saudi arabia, afghanistan, iraq. >> the arab spring, in many ways, has turned into an islamic winter for the christians of the middle easterly. that includes the whole state of north africa. pretty much every place that has an election has elected islamists, and they have made it more difficult for the churches of the middle east, who are pretty significant minorities in a lot of these countries. so that has been a bad thing. >> george: tens of thousands of christians are fleeing the middle east because of persecution, yet this modern day exitous is getting little attention i