{"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\/fr\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"Histoire"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\t\tTrente ans de solidarit\u00e9\t<\/h1>\n\tIDOP a d\u00e9but\u00e9 par un simple appel \u00e0 la pri\u00e8re en situation d'urgence. Trente ans plus tard, des \u00e9glises du monde entier consacrent encore un dimanche de novembre \u00e0 la pri\u00e8re de soutien aux croyants qui souffrent pour leur foi.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

1992<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLa F\u00e9d\u00e9ration \u00e9vang\u00e9lique mondiale (devenue depuis l'Alliance \u00e9vang\u00e9lique mondiale) lance sa Commission sur la libert\u00e9 religieuse lors de sa neuvi\u00e8me assembl\u00e9e g\u00e9n\u00e9rale aux Philippines.\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\tL'\u00e9v\u00eaque Haik Hovsepian Mehr est assassin\u00e9 en Iran apr\u00e8s avoir pris la d\u00e9fense de Mehdi Dibaj, un pasteur condamn\u00e9 \u00e0 mort pour apostasie. La Commission d\u00e9cr\u00e8te une journ\u00e9e de pri\u00e8re d'urgence pour l'Iran.\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\tL\u2019\u00e9lan de solidarit\u00e9 est tel que la Commission instaure la Journ\u00e9e internationale de pri\u00e8re pour l\u2019\u00c9glise pers\u00e9cut\u00e9e. Plus de 100 pays y participent d\u00e8s la premi\u00e8re ann\u00e9e.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

Depuis 1996<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tL'IDOP est adopt\u00e9e au-del\u00e0 de la famille \u00e9vang\u00e9lique par les \u00e9glises catholiques et traditionnelles, ainsi que par des minist\u00e8res du monde entier.\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\tUne r\u00e9flexion personnelle\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

Je suis profond\u00e9ment reconnaissant envers tous ceux qui ont pri\u00e9 pour les chr\u00e9tiens pers\u00e9cut\u00e9s et les ont soutenus par l'interm\u00e9diaire d'IDOP au cours des trente derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es. Je suis tout aussi reconnaissant envers ceux qui poursuivent cette \u0153uvre, perp\u00e9tuant ainsi son histoire et sa mission pour les ann\u00e9es \u00e0 venir.<\/p>\n

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

Godfrey Yogarajah<\/strong><\/p>\n\tPr\u00e9sident du Conseil international de l'Alliance \u00e9vang\u00e9lique mondiale (AEM)
\nAmbassadeur pour la libert\u00e9 religieuse, 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 … Lire plus<\/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\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idop.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idop.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idop.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idop.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/idop.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236,"href":"https:\/\/idop.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96\/revisions\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idop.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}