Saturday, February 03, 2007

Burma's Christians Need Our Prayers

Chuck Colson/AH (Feb. 3rd, 2007)

Recently, a chilling secret document from Burma (also called Myanmar) was leaked to a UK-based newspaper. The document contained a detailed strategy for "wiping out" Christianity in the Southeast Asian country.

Human rights groups, as well as some celebrities, had been trying in the last year, to turn the eyes of the UN, and the world, toward the escalating ethnic cleansing going on in Burma, attributed mostly to the ruling Junta regime, and militant Buddhist monks.

While Junta denies ownership of the leaked document titled: Program to Destroy the Christian Religion in Burma, they do not refute its contents, which begin with the line, "there shall be no home where the Christian religion is practiced." And, according to a report by Chuck Colson for Breakpoint, carried byThe Christian Post, 300 Buddhist monks were recently "sent to forcibly convert the populace."

Colson calls on Christians in the West, and all around the world, to familiarize themselves with the grave persecutions against their brothers-and-sisters-in-Christ, in Burma. First; pray, says Colson, then as you become aware of the situation, educate and motivate other Christians to do likewise.

According to Colson, the U.S. has no influence on the Junta government, however China does. "We must make it clear that 'doing business' with China doesn't include turning a blind eye to genocide," says Colson, suggesting a boycott of goods from China in hopes of moving them into action against the persecution in Myanmar.

Colson adds, "Even if our options are limited, we owe it to our brethren to try."

Source: Christian Post

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