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China rises 16 place in Open Doors World Watch List

16th January 201914th January 2019 Josie McFarlane 191 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 223 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 295 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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Editors' Picks News

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

9th December 201810th December 2018 Josie McFarlane 392 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 295 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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Trapped behind fence

Eritrean teenager imprisoned for his evangelical faith

21st August 201821st August 2018 Josie McFarlane 760 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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International News

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

14th August 201815th August 2018 Becky Wybrow 688 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 5853 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

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