I'm convinced that the Christians of each nation are given a specific task to defeat, tailored to them by their surroundings.
In the West, we are safe to practice as Christians in a mostly-secular society. Nobody physically threatens us with war or forced conversion. Yet, our enemy is not of the sword, but of the mind. These people are posessed by demons, and they seek to distort and pervert everything holy about our lives. In the West, we have to fight against perversion, liberalism, and the selfish ideologies of the Enemy himself.
In the Near East, christians face an entirely different obstacle. Instead of living in a decaying, sick society, they live in patriarchal, god-fearing nations where the punishment for sodomy is death. However, the god they worship is not our God. So the christians of the Near East face physical threat by the sword of war and heresy, and struggle to assimilate and thrive in the ancient Biblical lands.
In the far East, christians face disgusting polytheism in Hindu and Buddhist countries.
> for those that think Buddhism is not a religion, look deeply into it. most worshippers think ancient spirits manifest inside of the statues that they worship in their temples
Everywhere christians exist, there is a struggle, but it's never the same.