"The Bible Site" is an outreach effort of Open Doors with Brother Andrew, an international nondenominational Christian mission founded in 1955 by Dutchman Brother Andrew, best known as the title of his best-selling autobiography "God's Smuggler."

Open Doors is a unique ministry to persecuted Christians, the only one with hundreds of staff members worldwide implementing significant projects on the frontlines in 45 nations. Open Doors currently is conducting far-reaching and comprehensive programs in most countries where Christians suffer for their faith in Jesus Christ.

While supplying Bibles and conducting biblical training remains at the core of our global ministry activities, below are examples of what the faithful partnership of our supporters is allowing us to accomplish . . .

In Africa, Open Doors is:

• Personally distributing nearly 100,000 Bibles and Christian materials!
• Individually training nearly 3,600 pastors and Christian leaders!

• Taking God's Word into war-torn countries
• Encouraging Sunday school teachers to inspire a new generation
• Showing Christians how to witness to their Muslim neighbors

In Asia, Open Doors is:

• Personally distributing nearly 2,300,000 Bibles and Christian materials!
• Individually training nearly 20,000 pastors and Christian leaders!

• Giving study Bibles to pastors and illustrated Bibles to children
• Training leaders of intensely persecuted house churches
• Delivering hymnbooks to put a song in believer's hearts

In Latin America, Open Doors is:

• Personally distributing nearly 320,000 Bibles and Christian materials!
• Individually training nearly 6,500 pastors and Christian leaders!

• Giving practical support and love to widows and orphans
• Visiting falsely accused Christians in prison
• Encouraging church leaders under fire

In the Muslim World, Open Doors is:

• Personally distributing nearly 280,000 Bibles and Christian materials!
• Individually training nearly 38,000 pastors and Christian leaders!

In 1955, a young Dutchman called Brother Andrew took a trip to Warsaw, Poland, behind the Iron Curtain. He found he could sneak away from his tour group and meet secretly with Christians. But what he found shook him . . . the church in Poland was very weak, and had few Bibles to read.

A few days later, Andrew sat on a park bench and watched a parade of hundreds of communist youth marching through the streets of Warsaw proclaiming the glories of their revolution.

Looking down at his open Bible, his eyes fell on Revelation 3:2, "Awake, and strengthen what remains and is at the point of death." It was Andrew's call to wake up from his complacency, and begin to help persecuted Christians who lived in some of the world's most difficult areas.

Open Doors was born as Andrew, and others the Lord added to his team, began to smuggle Bibles through the Iron Curtain, bringing encouragement and help to the seemingly forgotten Christians.

Gradually the ministry spread to Asia, then Africa, Latin America, and the Muslim world . . . wherever the church was crying out for help, and where few, if any, were going.

Today, more than 200 million Christians around the world suffer persecution for their faith in Christ. Christians continue to suffer under atheistic regimes in China, Vietnam, Cuba and North Korea. Areas of the former Soviet Union still face restriction, and the growth of Islam is putting great pressure on the church in the Middle East and Africa.

But with the help of our faithful supporters, Open Doors is there to serve the suffering, persecuted church, to let them know they are not alone in the spiritual battle. God's army continues to march forward! Lives and nations are being changed from the inside out through God's Word.

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