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Open Doors advocacy team wins parliamentary award

3rd May 20191st May 2019 Josie McFarlane 166 Views 0 Comment 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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“They have seen hell”

18th April 201915th April 2019 Josie McFarlane 658 Views 0 Comment 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 281 Views 0 Comment 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 363 Views 0 Comment 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 344 Views 0 Comment #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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China rises 16 place in Open Doors World Watch List

16th January 201914th January 2019 Josie McFarlane 339 Views 0 Comment China, christian, community, crime, Faith, Open Doors, persecution, Poverty, Watch list

Asia is the new hotbed of persecution for Christians according the Open Doors World Watch List 2019. Persecution in Asia

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

8th January 20199th January 2019 Josie McFarlane 346 Views 0 Comment 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 406 Views 0 Comment #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 547 Views 0 Comment 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 422 Views 0 Comment 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 909 Views 0 Comment 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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A nine-year-old Christian girl, Anjali Masih, was reportedly gang-raped and killed

14th August 201815th August 2018 Becky Wybrow 903 Views 0 Comment 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 7827 Views 0 Comment 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