DOHI - Door of Hope International

06/11/2026

You can find the interview on our website's homepage.

06/10/2026

Quote from Dr. Haralan Popov

06/09/2026

06/05/2026

MY WORK AS A PRISON PASTOR: "During my years of imprisonment, I’d used every occasion I possibly could to serve as a prison pastor to the men. Since I had been removed from my pulpit, I was determined my pulpit would be wherever I was." Dr. Haralan Popov led the largest Protestant church in 1940s Bulgaria before being falsely accused by the communist regime and imprisoned for 13 years. You can read more about him and DOHI's ministry in his autobiography, Tortured for His Faith. Order online on our website: dohi.org

06/04/2026

Dr. Haralan Popov’s wife, Ruth, a Swedish missionary, followed her newlywed husband to Bulgaria in 1937. The arrest of her husband left Ruth to care for two small children alone in a strange land. She was marked as “the wife of a spy” and therefore not to be employed or helped. She was also forbidden to leave Bulgaria. After three difficult years, through the help of the Swedish government, she finally received permission to return to her homeland with her two children, Rhoda and Paul.

Heartbroken to have left her husband behind, Ruth dedicated herself to helping Haralan and the other imprisoned Bulgarian pastors. Upon her arrival in Stockholm, Sweden, Ruth began ministering in churches across Scandinavia and Great Britain. She spoke about her husband’s imprisonment and torture and of the plight and needs of Christians behind the Iron Curtain.

Ruth encouraged Christians to organize prayer groups and petitions on behalf of her husband Haralan and other imprisoned pastors and Christians.

05/28/2026

Summer is a wonderful time forchildren to learn about Jesus’ constant love. As a result, they come to understand that they are not alone, no matter where they live or what they face. Read about all our ministries on our website.

05/27/2026

Even after his release from prison on September 24, 1961, the communist government told Haralan he would never be allowed to leave Bulgaria. But God worked a miracle, and Haralan was reunited with his family in 1963. He immediately focused all his energy to inform the world of the plight of persecuted Christians and to bring God’s Word into communist countries where Bibles had been confiscated and burned.

Haralan’s vision was clear, to be “A Voice and a Helping Hand” to the Persecuted Church.

Pastor Haralan Popov’s amazing testimony of Christian courage is recorded in his autobiography, I Was a Communist Prisoner and in the bestseller, Tortured For His Faith.

05/26/2026

Watch our brief teaser film based on Tortured for His Faith on our website or You Tube Channel. See links in the comment section below. Thanks!