{"id":96,"date":"2026-10-14T11:33:58","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T11:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idop.worldea.org\/?page_id=96"},"modified":"2026-10-15T10:59:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T10:59:55","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/idop.org\/es\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"Historia"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\t\tTreinta a\u00f1os de solidaridad\t<\/h1>\n\tIDOP comenz\u00f3 con un simple llamado urgente a la oraci\u00f3n. Treinta a\u00f1os despu\u00e9s, iglesias de todo el mundo siguen dedicando un domingo de noviembre para acompa\u00f1ar a los creyentes que sufren por su fe.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

1992<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLa Fraternidad Evang\u00e9lica Mundial (ahora Alianza Evang\u00e9lica Mundial) lanza su Comisi\u00f3n de Libertad Religiosa en su Novena Asamblea General en Filipinas.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

1994<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEl obispo Haik Hovsepian Mehr fue asesinado en Ir\u00e1n tras alzar la voz en defensa de Mehdi Dibaj, un pastor condenado a muerte por apostas\u00eda. La Comisi\u00f3n convoc\u00f3 una jornada de oraci\u00f3n de emergencia por Ir\u00e1n.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

1996<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLa respuesta es tan grande que la Comisi\u00f3n lanza el D\u00eda Internacional de Oraci\u00f3n por la Iglesia Perseguida. M\u00e1s de 100 pa\u00edses participan en el primer a\u00f1o.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

Desde 1996<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIDOP se difunde m\u00e1s all\u00e1 del \u00e1mbito evang\u00e9lico, llegando a iglesias cat\u00f3licas y tradicionales, as\u00ed como a ministerios de todo el mundo.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

2026<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIDOP marks 30 years with the theme “Do you know our suffering?”\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n

\n\t\t\tUna reflexi\u00f3n personal\t<\/h2>\n\t

My own history with the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church (IDOP) goes back to the founding of the WEA Religious Liberty Commission (RLC). In 1988, the World Evangelical Alliance (then the World Evangelical Fellowship) commissioned Brian O’Connell and Mike Morris to survey the global evangelical community on religious liberty and to draft a plan for a permanent commission. That four-year process culminated in a three-day consultation on persecution, held in the Philippines immediately before WEA’s 1992 General Assembly in Manila. By most accounts, it was the first global evangelical consultation devoted specifically to persecution. It was there that the Commission was formally established, and I was one of the commissioners appointed to carry it forward, alongside Brian O’Connell, Mike Morris, John Langlois, Paul Negrut of Romania, and Menes Abdul Noor of Egypt.<\/p>\n

Two years later, in January 1994, Bishop Haik Hovsepian Mehr, superintendent of the Assemblies of God churches in Iran, was murdered for his outspoken defence of Mehdi Dibaj, a pastor imprisoned and sentenced to death on charges of apostasy. Newly appointed as the Commission’s Executive Director that same month, Brian O’Connell led the RLC in calling an emergency global “Day of Prayer for Iran”. The response from churches around the world was so overwhelming that, in 1996, the RLC formally launched the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church, setting aside the first Sunday in November in the church calendar (a second Sunday was added later). More than 100 countries took part in that very first year.<\/p>\n

It is also worth noting that, from around January 1996, a US-based coalition – including the Institute on Religion and Democracy, the National Association of Evangelicals, the Southern Baptist Convention, and others – was independently working towards a similar idea. Working through WEA’s North American office, the coalition helped promote the observance among mainline denominations, and its members’ accounts credit it with building much of IDOP’s early reach in the United States. This work developed alongside the RLC’s launch, which was the originating initiative and global in scope.<\/p>\n

Leadership of the Commission passed from Brian O’Connell to Johan Candelin of Finland later in 1996, and I had the privilege of succeeding Johan in 2007. Across those years and since, I have watched IDOP grow from a single emergency campaign into an observance embraced by churches, denominations, and ministries across the world – evangelical, Catholic, and mainline alike – all answering the same call to remember and pray.<\/p>\n

Thirty years on, the particulars have changed: the countries most in the headlines, the tools we use to communicate, and the sheer scale of what we now know about the persecuted Church. But the conviction behind IDOP has not changed at all. No member of Christ’s body suffers alone. What began as a response to one bishop’s martyrdom in Iran has become a sustained, global expression of exactly what Paul asked of Timothy and taught the Corinthians: to know one another’s suffering and to carry it together.<\/p>\n

Agradezco profundamente a todos los que han orado por los cristianos perseguidos y los han apoyado a trav\u00e9s de IDOP durante los \u00faltimos treinta a\u00f1os. Asimismo, agradezco a quienes contin\u00faan con esta labor, manteniendo viva su historia y su prop\u00f3sito en los a\u00f1os venideros.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\"godfrey\n\t<\/figure>\n\t

Godfrey Yogarajah<\/strong><\/p>\n\tPresidente del Consejo Internacional de la Alianza Evang\u00e9lica Mundial (WEA)
\nEmbajador para la Libertad Religiosa, WEA
\nFounding Commissioner (1992) and former Executive Director (2007-2021), WEA Religious Liberty Commission","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thirty Years of Solidarity IDOP began with a single emergency call to prayer. Thirty years later, churches across the world still set aside a Sunday each November to stand with believers who suffer for their faith. 1992 The World Evangelical Fellowship (now the World Evangelical Alliance) launches its Religious Liberty Commission at its Ninth General … Leer m\u00e1s<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-96","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idop.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idop.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idop.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idop.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idop.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/idop.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236,"href":"https:\/\/idop.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96\/revisions\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idop.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}