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Open Doors CEO Says Americans Pastors Are ‘Not Teaching a Theology of Persecution’

3rd July 20192nd July 2019 Josie McFarlane 349 Views 0 Comments American Pastors, christian, Church news, Open Doors, Teachings, Theology of Persecution

As violence against Christians continues to increase worldwide, the CEO of Open Doors USA, David Curry, says American pastors are

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Open Doors advocacy team wins parliamentary award

3rd May 20191st May 2019 Josie McFarlane 316 Views 0 Comments award, charity, christian, community, Faith, government, Open Doors, parliament

The awards recognises campaigning charities that lead their field in communicating with parliamentarians. Open Doors’ CEO, Henrietta Blyth said, “We’re

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Marcia Dixon 

“They have seen hell”

18th April 201915th April 2019 Josie McFarlane 2365 Views 0 Comments Africa, Boko Haram, charity, Chibok girls, children, christian, community, Faith, Kidnapped, Open Doors

Five years since the 14 April 2014 abduction of approximately 230 girls by Boko Haram in Chibok, Nigeria, parents whose

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Teenage Boko Haram escapee learns to love her ‘Boko Haram baby’

4th April 20194th April 2019 Josie McFarlane 443 Views 0 Comments baby, Boko Haram, charity, Child, christian, community, Faith, help, Open Doors, Support, teen mother

Esther was 16 when Boko Haram extremists attacked her village in Borno state, Nigeria. Esther and her father tried to

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Open Doors launches ‘See. Change. campaign on International Women’s Day

8th March 20198th March 2019 Josie McFarlane 530 Views 0 Comments campaign, charity, christian, community, Faith, International Women’s Day news, Open Doors, See Change Campaign

Christian women who live in countries on the World Watch List are doubly vulnerable because of both their faith and

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Two years on from the abduction of Malaysian pastor Open Doors urges action

16th February 201914th February 2019 Josie McFarlane 479 Views 0 Comments #Pastor, #World news, abducted, black, charity, christian, church, Church news, community, Faith, Open Doors

On 13 February 2017, Raymond Koh was abducted with military precision that implied a coordinated attack by trained individuals. In

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Open Doors welcomes Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s review into persecuted Christians’ plight

8th January 20199th January 2019 Josie McFarlane 488 Views 0 Comments aid, christian, community, Faith, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, Open Doors, persecuted Christians’ plight, Refugee, the Indonesian earthquake

The anti-persecution Charity, Open Doors UK & Ireland, has welcomed the announcement by Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt that he has

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Help needed for Syria’s traumatised Children.

23rd December 201818th December 2018 Josie McFarlane 516 Views 0 Comments #Syria, Centres of Hope, children, Christians, church, community, effects of the war, Faith, Open Doors

This winter Open Doors is appealing for help for families who are still traumatised, lacking basic food and medicines and

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Churches sing for Syrian Christians facing another hard winter as the crisis continues

9th December 201825th March 2019 Josie McFarlane 689 Views 0 Comments charity, Christ, christian, Christmas, churches, community, Faith, God, Islamic extremists, mission, Open Doors, Poverty, pray, Syrian Christians, war

As the crisis in Syria drags towards its eighth year, Open Doors is asking supporters to Sing for Syria and

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Open Doors partners: Helping women in India to lift themselves out of poverty.

19th September 201818th September 2018 Josie McFarlane 581 Views 0 Comments christian, Communism, community, Faith, God, Hindu, India business, Moaist, Naxalite, Open Doors

Through partners, Open Doors has set up sewing schools in remote villages in central India where persecuted women can learn

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Eritrean teenager imprisoned for his evangelical faith

21st August 201821st August 2018 Josie McFarlane 1067 Views 0 Comments 2018, Americans, beaten, christian, Christianity, crime, Eritrea, escape, Ethiopia, Evangelical Christian, Freedom, God, good government, government property, imprisoned, independence, indoctrination, Islamic faith, military prison, military training camp, national service, never forsaken us, Open Doors, peace deal, police, police station, Prime Minister, prison, punished, ruling party, security, shoot to kill, shooting to kill, smugglers, Spirit, suffering, war, Watch list

Matthew* was caught by police and sentenced to a military prison while he was still a teenager, because he is

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International News 

A nine-year-old Christian girl, Anjali Masih, was reportedly gang-raped and killed

14th August 201815th August 2018 Becky Wybrow 1638 Views 0 Comments Anjali Masih, christian, community, Faith, featureful, gang-raped, Henrietta Blyth, Hindu background, Hinduism, impunity, local pastor, lured, murder, Muslims, Open Doors, persecution, Radical Hindu, raical Hindu groups, religious persecution, strangled, telephone wire, three men

Anjali Masih was playing with her friends when three men lured her away with the promise of a guava. Anjali

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Over 100 Christians sent to ‘re-education’ camps in Xinjiang, China

5th February 201810th August 2018 Josie McFarlane 9179 Views 0 Comments anti-terror, authorities, China, Christianity, Christians, church, communist ideology, crackdown, discimination, ethnic minority, God, militant Islamists, mind-transformation centres, monitored, Muslim, Muslims in China, Open Doors, re-education camp, separatist groups, surveillance, surveillance cameras, Three Self Churches, Tibetan Buddhist, Uyghur, Wall Street Journal, Xinjiang province

More than 100 Christians have been sent to ‘re-education’ camps in China’s north-western Xinjiang province over the past few months

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