Brother Andrew’s Open Doors at 70: Smuggling Bibles and seeing miracles

Lydia Houghton  |  UK & Ireland
Date posted:  18 Jul 2025
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Brother Andrew’s Open Doors at 70: Smuggling  Bibles and seeing miracles

Brother Andrew. Source: Open Doors, colour restored

Smuggling Bibles to believers in communist countries – that’s how Open Doors UK & Ireland began. 70 years on, the organisation has become an international ministry working for the good of the persecuted church.

In 1955, Dutch missionary Brother Andrew set off for Poland with a suitcase containing his Bible and hundreds of tracts entitled “The Way of Salvation”. Behind the Iron Curtain (the divide between Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe and the West during the Cold War) he discovered churches desperately in need of Bibles, support, and prayer.

Now, today, Bible-smuggling continues. Daniel (name changed for security reasons) has now been smuggling Bibles in the Muslim world for 25 years. Daniel has seen more miracles, but none are more beautiful than seeing Muslims embracing Jesus Christ, he says. As Brother Andrew often prayed during his own missions, God continues to “make seeing eyes blind”.

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