field workers

At dusk in Cameroon, Christians gather their belongings and leave their houses behind. They walk silently up the nearby mountains to sleep there. The area contains snakes and other dangerous animals, but they are less dangerous than the Boko Haram extremists who might come in the night and...

"In Iran, if you become a Christian, your family may want nothing to do with you," says Ali to one of our fieldworkers. The heartbreak of that statement is clear in his voice. When Ali and his wife Zahra became Christians, they joined a network of underground house churches and grew in their...

When we share the stories of persecuted Christians, we often get updates from our field workers on situations we have covered in the past. Last year, brothers and sisters in Libya asked you to join them in prayer for the Union Church in Tripoli, which was facing possible eviction from its...

Shamim age 30 lives in Bangladesh, and works as one of Open Doors' adult literacy teachers. He and his family are former muslims who began to follow Jesus in a region that is heavily anti-Christian. On August 23 at 10.30pm, Shamim's cousins attacked him, leaving him severely injured. He is now...