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Text Box: Home More Countries Contact Us Site Map Text Box: Conditions Are Still Grim In Myanmar  Myanmar experienced devastation from a 12 hour cyclone that ravaged through Yangon on May 2, 2008. A state of emergency was declared across much of the country following the storm with 150 mile an hour winds dumping 20 inches of rain in that region. 1.3 million people died and 2.6 million are homeless; and most have been without much food, cooking utensils, emergency aids, and clean drinking water. 15 to 20 % of those people are still living in temporary plastic shelters. Foreign aid has not yet reached many areas that are far from the towns. In Jesus’ Name Ministries has been helping hundreds of precious pastors, congregations, and Bible students in this area for several years that are now devastated by this deadly natural disaster. Our main contact, brother A. (name protected) and his family who live in Myanmar, were all fine by the grace of God, but their ministry buildings and home have been damaged. Brother A. visited the cyclone struck area shortly after it happened and says it will take 8—10 years for rehabilitation and reconstruction. He said it was worse than he had heard on television. The people who now live in the refugee camps are being forced to return to the areas where they lived. They are saying, “How can we return to our places where the remains of the bodies of our relatives are still there? All of our houses have been totally destroyed. We could not start working in our rice fields, we do not have seeds for our fields, and all of our cows and buffalos have died …” Food prices had risen steeply before the cyclone, $12—$13 dollars for an 88 lb. bag of rice, making it very difficult for most to purchase even basic foods needed for survival. Food prices have risen to $36—$37 dollars for the same size bag since the disaster struck. Life seems hopeless to most people affected by this tragedy. You can Help Make your checks payable to In Jesus’ Name Ministries, and in the memo field of your check, write Myanmar / cyclone, and we will make sure 100% of your gift goes to help our Myanmar brethren. This is how we know what love is; Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. I John 3:16-18 There have been some disturbing reports coming out of Myanmar. According to a U.K. newspaper, Telegraph, a “secret” document titled “Programme to Destroy the Christian Religion in Burma,” which gives “point by point instructions on how to drive Christians out of the state,” has been leaked and is now circulating around Myanmar. The first line boasts, “There shall be no home where the Christian religion is practiced.” This is very distressing for us, wondering what they will do if a home is found where Christianity is practiced? Will they jail them? Torture them? Or kill them? What will they do to them? A second disturbing report, possibly even more so than the first, comes from Voice of the Martyrs. According to this report, the government of Myanmar has asked for a list of the names of every single Christian in Myanmar, including children, families, assemblies, homes where Christianity is practiced, church pastors, church leaders and church members. The government has also announced an “official” time of worship, making it illegal to congregate or hold worship services outside the set time. Is this bringing anything to mind? Nazi Germany, perhaps? The Rwandan Genocide? It is a very disturbing thought! God only knows what the Myanmar government will do in order to purify its state of the Christian religion and all its believers. Our brothers and sisters in Myanmar desperately need our prayers and our help so they can continue to work “as long as it is day,” for “night is coming when no man can work.” (John 9:4) Please consider helping these brave Christians in their time of great need, and uncertain future. Burma is a source (starting point) country for men, women, and children trafficked (illegally traded) to East and southeast Asia for sexual exploitation, domestic service, and forced commercial labor; a significant number of victims are economic migrants who wind up in forced or bonded labor and forced prostitution; to a lesser extent, Burma is a country of transit and destination for women trafficked from China for sexual exploitation; internal trafficking of persons occurs primarily for labor in industrial zones and agricultural estates; internal trafficking of women and girls for sexual exploitation occurs from villages to urban centers and other areas; the military junta’s (military group seizing political power) economic mismanagement, human rights abuses, and policy of using forced labor are driving factors behind Burma’s large trafficking problem. Burma does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and is not making significant efforts to do so. People living with HIV/AIDS is estimated at — 330,000 in 2003. The risk of major infectious diseases is very high. Some of the common diseases are diarrhea, hepatitis A, typhoid fever; and dengue fever and malaria are high risks in some areas. Burma, a resource-rich country, suffers from pervasive government controls, inefficient economic policies , and rural poverty. They are 4% Christian and 89% Buddhist. (CIA World Fact Book) Top

Population  est. —47,373,958  (2007)

“Dead bodies were everywhere” is what our contact in Myanmar said he encountered after the cyclone struck.  Pastor A. and his team have brought supplies into this very needy area, but the funds are not near enough to meet all of the needs.  While meeting some of the basic needs of the Myanmar people, the Gospel is also shared with the love of Jesus Christ to the many homeless people. (If you enlarge this picture, you can see the many bodies that died in the cyclone.)

Listen to beautiful Christian Myanmar praise and worship.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEAyQfguAZY       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQagpSsVqTA 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cKXx2YSqKw&feature=related  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf4WPYb9LXY&feature=related       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpSuvv-1M2w&feature=related

The next praise and worship songs are in English…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwaNqhS6N2g&feature=related   

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Dyk3ECLKWw