A pastor who was kidnapped and thought to have been dead for more than a year was reunited Monday with his family, according to a Christian mission organization. Myanmar Pastor Tun N., who allegedly refused to join the insurgent Arakan Army in their cause to overthrow
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The United Wa State Army (UWSA) in control of the Wa Special Region in Myanmar (Burma), bordering China’s Yunnan province, has allowed at least 50 churches to reopen. Local church leaders issued a plea for prayer when the China-backed, communist influenced separatist
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07/31/2019 Myanmar (International Christian Concern) – The government-appointed council, Myanmar’s highest Buddhist body declared a hardline monk organization an illegal association and ordered the nationwide removal of all its signage, three weeks after their leader, ultranationalist monk U Wirathu was issued
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Barnabas Fund contacts report that Pastor Thar Tun was kidnapped from his home in Rakhine state, Myanmar (Burma) on 13 February by Buddhist militants thought to be members of the Arakan Army (AA). Pastor Tun, 56, who has five children, is the
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Pastors detained by an armed group in Myanmar’s Shan state were released on 5 October, but only on condition they stop praying in church. Soldiers from the United Wa State Army shut down and destroyed churches in September and detained a
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In August 2017, over 600 000 Rohingya fled over the border into Bangladesh following an increase of violence against the group. The history of persecution against the Rohingya is complicated and not quickly dissected. To put it briefly, the Myanmar government
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Sunday, 12th February, marked Red Hand Day, also known as the International Day against the Use of Child Soldiers, and the charity World Vision used the day to urge the UK government to make protection for the world’s 250,000 child
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Since October last year, Myanmar’s security forces have been committing mass killings and gang rapes of Rohingya Muslims and burning down villages in a campaign that likely amounts to crimes against humanity and possibly ethnic cleansing, according to the United
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The whereabouts of two Kachin pastors who disappeared on Christmas Eve in the northern Shan State town of Mong Ko, Myanmar (Burma), remains unknown, after they were summoned by the army. The two pastors had helped journalists from report on
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Aid workers are reporting that hundreds of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar crossed the border into Bangladesh over the weekend, seeking shelter from escalating violence in the northwest that has killed at least 86 people and displaced around 30,000. An official,
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