NEW DELHI, January 9 (CDN) — Attacks on Christians in Burma continued into the Christmas season in Kachin state as Burmese Army troops killed a civilian and destroyed church property despite President Thein Sein’s order to stop the war against insurgents. A Baptist ....
NEW DELHI, December 5 (CDN) — As U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Burma’s capital, Naypyidaw, last week in a show of support for authorities’ ostensible reforms and to discuss minority rights, government troops killed civilians and burned houses in a ....
NEW DELHI, October 28 (CDN) — A recent attack on Christians and church buildings by Burmese soldiers in Kachin state showed that Christian civilians are targeted in the military offensive against insurgents. “Targeting of Christians is not unusual in Burma’s conflict zones,” ....
DUBLIN, January 19 (CDN) — Burmese soldiers are systematically using forced labor, torture and rape to persecute majority-Christian residents of Chin state in western Burma, according to a report released today. Entitled, “Life Under the Junta: Evidence of Crimes ....
CHIANG MAI, Thailand, December 8 (CDN) — Civilians in two ethnic minority states with large Christian populations fear their lives will be in danger as skirmishes between rebels and a Burmese junta bent on instilling Buddhist nationalism threaten to escalate into war. “It is ....
DUBLIN, November 18 (CDN) — Officials in Mergui Region, Burma, ordered a Baptist church to cease holding worship services after the pastor refused to wear an election campaign T-shirt supporting the military government’s Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP). The ....
CHIANG MAI, Thailand, October 22 (CDN) — With Burma’s first election in over 20 years just two weeks away, Christians in ethnic minority states fear that afterward the military regime will try to “cleanse” the areas of Christianity, sources said. The Burmese junta is showing restraint to ....
CHIANG MAI, Thailand, January 20 (CDN) — As Burma’s military junta gears up for its first parliamentary election in two decades this year, observers fear attacks on the Christian minority could intensify. Mungpi Suangtak, assistant editor of a New Delhi-based news agency run by exiled ....
DUBLIN, February 20 (CDN) — A Human Rights Watch (HRW) report released in January details serious and ongoing abuses against the Chin people, a minority group in Burma’s northwest who claim to be 90 percent Christian. HRW’s research echoes a 2004 report by the Chin Human ....
February 20 (CDN) — DUBLIN, February 20 (Compass Direct News) – A Human Rights Watch (HRW) report released in January details serious and ongoing abuses against the Chin people, a minority group in Burma’s northwest who claim to be 90 percent Christian. HRW’s research ....
DUBLIN, January 21 (CDN) — Burmese authorities last week increased restrictions on Christian activity in the capital city of Rangoon and surrounding areas, including the closure of several churches, Compass sources confirmed yesterday. Orders issued on Jan. 5 had already ....
January 21 (CDN) — DUBLIN, January 21 (Compass Direct News) – Burmese authorities last week increased restrictions on Christian activity in the capital city of Rangoon and surrounding areas, including the closure of several churches, Compass sources confirmed ....
September 12 (CDN) — (Compass) — Due to increasing tension in Myanmar (formerly Burma), the Thai government has banned all foreign NGOs from refugee camps along its border with Myanmar. Christian refugees in particular are affected by the ban, as church-run schools and ....
April 21 (CDN) — (Compass) - A female Baptist pastor was arrested on February 13 in Haka, in western Myanmar. Accused of harboring Chin separatists, Pastor Gracie -- an ethnic Chin -- was removed by soldiers from the Rinpi Baptist Church and taken to the Haka army ....
