November 4 kicked off the 2018 International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church (IDOP) event which implores Christians around the world to prayer for their persecuted brothers and sisters in Christ.
The event, which takes place on the first and second Sundays in November each year – this year being the 4 and 11 – was started in 1996 by the World Evangelical Alliance’s Religious Liberty Commission.
According to Open Doors USA, the purpose of the IDOP is for “Christians throughout the free world [to] band together in solidarity with believers who live out their faith in the face of harassment, attacks, false imprisonment and even death.”
Every year the event has a theme. This year’s theme is called “Listen to Their Cry,” and aims to give persecuted Christians a platform to share their stories.
In a video commemorating the day, the WEA does just that by sharing statements from Christians in countries such as North Korea, Nigeria, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan where hundreds, if not thousands of Christians are persecuted annually.
A Christian from Afghanistan is quoted in the video as saying, “I am so afraid; I believe in Jesus now, and my wife also but I still go to the mosque to pray five times a day.”
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