INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER
FOR THE PERSECUTED CHURCH

November 1, 2026

Every year, Churches across Canada come together on IDOP Sunday to lift up the persecuted Church. This November 1, we hope your church will join us in prayer for our brothers and sisters who follow Jesus where faith costs the most. 

You can devote your entire Sunday service to the persecuted church using the IDOP toolkit, or you can simply take some time for prayer, or a video – whatever it looks like in your church, thank you for standing together with your persecuted brothers and sisters!

Make sure to join Open Doors for the 2026 IDOP event at 7pm EST/4pm PST on November 1! Watch last year's event here:

The 2026 IDOP Toolkit

Every year IDOP Canada produces a resource kit to help church groups to pray for persecuted Christians. The kit is released each year in September. It includes:

  • A video that can be shown during your service
  • Sermon outlines
  • Social media graphics and write-ups
  • Children’s Resource
  • And more…

The IDOP resource kit is a valuable tool to help your church connect with there persecuted family around the world. 

Check back soon for the 2026 Toolkit!

Give a gift

When you give a gift, you are showing your persecuted family around the world that they are not alone. Your support provides Bibles, resources, training, relief, and more.

This Giving Tuesday, you can support struggling christians in NIgeria

Ongoing attacks have left hundreds dead and thousands displaced—many of them followers of Jesus.

Open Doors partners are working with local believers to help. Your gift today can help provide urgent aid to families who have lost everything in the attacks

A Giving Tuesday gift of $80 can provide vital emergency relief for a Christian family in Nigeria.

An emergency relief pack includes food, medicine, and clothes.

Give a Gift today

This Giving Tuesday, support struggling Christians in Nigeria

Ongoing attacks have left hundreds dead and thousands displaced—many of them followers of Jesus.

Open Doors partners are working with local believers to help. Your gift today can help provide urgent aid to families who have lost everything in the attacks

A Giving Tuesday gift of $80 can provide vital emergency relief for a Christian family in Nigeria.

An emergency relief pack includes food, medicine, and clothes.

Give a gift today

YOUR YEAR-END GIFT WILL BE MATCHED!

Persecution is growing, and so are the needs of persecuted believers. More Christians need Bibles, discipleship, trauma counselling, and relief aid as they face violence, displacement, and loss. 

Your support will empower persecuted believers through Bibles, training, relief aid, trauma counselling, and more. 

And thanks to a generous donor, your gift will be matched up to $120,000 so that every dollar has double the impact!

Give a Year-end gift

Your year-end gift will be matched!

Persecution is growing, and so are the needs of persecuted believers. More Christians need Bibles, discipleship, trauma counselling, and relief aid as they face violence, displacement, and loss. 

Your support will empower persecuted believers through Bibles, training, relief aid, trauma counselling, and more. 

And thanks to a generous donor, your gift will be matched up to $120,000 so that every dollar has double the impact!

Give a year-end gift