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Open Doors was founded in 1955 by Andrew, a Dutchman more widely known as Brother Andrew when he decided to smuggle his own brand of bibles to Christians he felt were being discriminated against in the then-Soviet Poland. In 2003, Christian Today reported that Open Doors have delivered 4 million Bibles and scriptural documents to persecuted Christians and trained 22,000 pastors and church leaders in that year.

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  • Open Doors was founded in 1955 by Andrew, a Dutchman more widely known as Brother Andrew when he decided to smuggle his own brand of bibles to Christians he felt were being discriminated against in the then-Soviet Poland. In 2003, Christian Today reported that Open Doors have delivered 4 million Bibles and scriptural documents to persecuted Christians and trained 22,000 pastors and church leaders in that year.
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  • Open Doors was founded in 1955 by Andrew, a Dutchman more widely known as Brother Andrew when he decided to smuggle his own brand of bibles to Christians he felt were being discriminated against in the then-Soviet Poland. Brother Andrew continued this work in smuggling bibles to Christians in many of the Soviet countries and in 1957 was given a blue Volkswagen Beetle which he used to deliver to countries inside the Communist bloc. With this new car he was able to carry more literature. The work of Open Doors was expanding through the extension of its network throughout Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. n 1981, they delivered one million contraband Chinese bibles in one night to a beach in the village of Gezhou in China on a mission they named Project Pearl. In 1988, Open Doors used Glasnost as an opportunity to openly provide one million Russian Bibles to the Russian Orthodox Church, at a cost of $2.5 million. Open Doors partnered with the United Bible Societies to complete the task in just over one year. In 2003, Christian Today reported that Open Doors have delivered 4 million Bibles and scriptural documents to persecuted Christians and trained 22,000 pastors and church leaders in that year. As of August, 2007, Open Doors had offices in 27 countries. In 2008 Open Doors USA delivered 3.9 million pieces of literature such as Bibles and training materials to people in various countries and regions where religious persecution are said to occur. These including Central Asia, Vietnam, the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa and Egypt.
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