How We Help

For 70 years, Open Doors has operated on a simple but revolutionary principle: when your family is suffering, you don't just send help from a distance. You show up. You stay. You build relationships that last decades, not just until the crisis passes. This is what makes Open Doors different. While others provide aid or advocacy alone, we provide presence—the faithful, long-term relationships that transform both the helper and the helped. Through our global network in over 70 countries, you're not just supporting distant strangers; you're connecting with brothers and sisters who become part of your spiritual family.

Our model isn't about charity. It's about kinship. It's about living out the biblical truth that "when one part of the body suffers, every part suffers with it" (1 Corinthians 12:26). Through Open Doors, you join a global movement where faith strengthens faith, where your prayers cross oceans and where hope multiplies in the darkest places.

What it looks like: Open Doors works in more than 70 countries, supplying Bibles, training church leaders, providing practical support and emergency relief, and supporting Christians who suffer persecution and discrimination for their faith. Our national bases in 25 countries work to raise awareness of global persecution, mobilizing prayer, support, and action among Christians!

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Distributing Bibles and Christian resources

Despite increased security control and restrictions, Open Doors provides contextualized Christian materials in minority languages. Last year, Open Doors distributed more than one million Bibles and books worldwide.

Training Christians and church leaders

In the last year, Open Doors trained more than 3.3 million persecuted Christians across the world. Trainings include leadership and discipleship courses, trauma care and persecution survival seminars.

Supporting victims of violence and disaster

Every year, Open Doors helps hundreds of thousands of persecuted Christians with emergency relief, community development, education, and medical care.

Speaking out in advocacy

From the White House to the UK Parliament, from the EU to the UN, Open Doors brings the voice of persecuted Christians to the ears of the most powerful people in the world.

Raising awareness and encouraging prayer

“Our prayers can go where we cannot.” Brother Andrew, founder of Open Doors. Across the world, we mobilize prayer support for Christians suffering persecution and discrimination for their faith. We encourage the global Church to stand with them in prayer so that they know they are not alone.