{"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\/pt\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"Hist\u00f3ria"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\t\tTrinta Anos de Solidariedade\t<\/h1>\n\tA IDOP come\u00e7ou com um simples apelo emergencial \u00e0 ora\u00e7\u00e3o. Trinta anos depois, igrejas em todo o mundo ainda reservam um domingo em novembro para apoiar os fi\u00e9is que sofrem por sua f\u00e9.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

1992<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA Alian\u00e7a Evang\u00e9lica Mundial (agora Alian\u00e7a Evang\u00e9lica Mundial) lan\u00e7a sua Comiss\u00e3o de Liberdade Religiosa em sua Nona Assembleia Geral nas 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\tO bispo Haik Hovsepian Mehr \u00e9 assassinado no Ir\u00e3 ap\u00f3s defender Mehdi Dibaj, um pastor condenado \u00e0 morte por apostasia. A Comiss\u00e3o convoca um Dia de Ora\u00e7\u00e3o de Emerg\u00eancia pelo Ir\u00e3.\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\tA resposta foi t\u00e3o positiva que a Comiss\u00e3o lan\u00e7ou o Dia Internacional de Ora\u00e7\u00e3o pela Igreja Perseguida. Mais de 100 pa\u00edses participaram no primeiro ano.\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\tO IDOP \u00e9 adotado al\u00e9m do \u00e2mbito evang\u00e9lico, sendo tamb\u00e9m praticado por igrejas cat\u00f3licas e tradicionais, bem como por minist\u00e9rios em todo o 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\tUma reflex\u00e3o pessoal\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

Sou profundamente grato a todos que oraram e apoiaram os crist\u00e3os perseguidos por meio da IDOP ao longo dos \u00faltimos trinta anos. Sou igualmente grato \u00e0queles que d\u00e3o continuidade a este trabalho, mantendo viva sua hist\u00f3ria e prop\u00f3sito nos anos vindouros.<\/p>\n

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

Godfrey Yogarajah<\/strong><\/p>\n\tPresidente do Conselho Internacional da Alian\u00e7a Evang\u00e9lica Mundial (WEA)
\nEmbaixador(a) para a Liberdade 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 … Ler mais<\/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\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idop.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idop.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idop.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idop.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/idop.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236,"href":"https:\/\/idop.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96\/revisions\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idop.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}