Passion and Pain

Since 1999, the US Secretary of State has designated Burma a country of particular concern under the International Religious Freedom Act for particularly severe violations of religious freedom.

Prayer Points: * Please pray for the protection and deliverance of Christians and other religious and ethnic minorities in Burma/Myanmar; that they will be strengthened in their faith and comforted in their suffering; that God in His mercy will spare them from further unspeakable horror, and raise up intercessors and advocates to lighten their heavy burdens. * Please pray for an end to the systematic persecution of Christians by Burma‘s brutal military regime; to the massive forced internal displacement and subhuman living conditions of the displaced; to the destruction of Christian churches and villages, and the military using Christians as forced labor, and for an end to the forced conversion of Christian children to Buddhism. * Please pray for an end to the barbaric torture, rape, and murder of Christian villagers

by Burmese military troops; that the Government of Burma will abandon its genocidal strategy, and begin to respect and protect the human rights and religious freedom of its minority citizens. * Please pray for those who are working with the Karen and other ethnic minorities, that they are given all possible support by Western nations and by Thailand which has recently taken hostile steps towards the refugees on its border. Pray too that those in the West who have commercial interests in Burma, especially in its oil use those interests to the benefit of its people, and not in even tacit support of Burma‘s brutal military regime.