Burma on my mind
a blurb and some highlights from what i consider to tbe an important article
####link#### http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2004/003/7.52.html
####intro#### Burma’s Almost Forgotten Christians find themselves battered by the world’s longest civil war and a brutally repressive regime. By Benedict Rogers | posted 03/05/2004
On the Burmese side of the Moei River, the reality of the Burma Army attack was there for all to see. Where just a few weeks before had stood a thriving community with a church, school, houses, and clinic, there was now little more than ashes.
The pastor came and sat next to me as we looked at the burned-out ruins of his church: a few charred bamboo pillars and some pews. A beam that once held up the roof now formed a cross, symbol of the people’s suffering.
####highlight#### The nearly 4 million Christians in Burma are among the 250 million members of the worldwide persecuted church. The U.S. State Department has ranked Burma as one of the six worst violators of religious freedom.
But the persecution is tied up with politics. The Karen, Karenni, Chin, and Kachin ethnic minority groups, struggling for freedom from a brutal Burmese regime, include substantial Christian populations.
In an effort to terrorize the ethnic groups into submission, the Burma Army uses religion as a weapon of war.
###highlight#### Pastor Simon composes meditations that speak of his people’s suffering-and hope:
They call us a displaced people, But praise God; we are not misplaced. They say they see no hope for our future, But praise God; our future is as bright as the promises of God. They say they see the life of our people is a misery, But praise God; our life is a mystery. For what they say is what they see, And what they see is temporal. But ours is the eternal. All because we put ourselves In the hands of the God we trust.
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