Source: Christian Aid Mission, January 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since the February 1, 2021 military coup that plunged the country of Myanmar into chaos, hundreds of civilians have been killed in random violence even as COVID-19 raged. Among victims of the virus were many Christian workers. A native ministry leader said that from May to August alone, 413 Christian evangelists and other workers with various ministry organizations died from the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One of the native missionaries nearly died from COVID-19 in July, and since then he and his wife have planted a church, the leader said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHe and his wife brought non-Christians and conducted salvation Bible training at his house five times in October and November,\u201d the leader said. \u201cHe baptized 23 people, and they all joined the church.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Another local missionary who works among devout Buddhists invited non-Christians to his house every weekend for dinner, where he taught them about Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIn the month of November, he reached 48 people with the Good News, and 14 of them accepted Jesus Christ as their personal Savior and Lord. Halleluiah!\u201d the leader said. \u201cHe said that if he\u2019s not telling the Good News, he is not able to sleep or eat.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Such gospel advance took place at a time when pandemic lockdowns and military conflict made going out of one\u2019s house unthinkable in many areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read the full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n See also The Tearful Struggle to Heal Battered Burma<\/a> (also from CAM, via Mission Network News).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Christian Aid Mission, January 2022 Since the February 1, 2021 military coup that plunged the country of Myanmar into chaos, hundreds of civilians have been killed in random violence even as COVID-19 raged. Among victims of the virus were many Christian workers. A native ministry leader said that from May to August alone, 413 … Continue reading Myanmar: A Message of Salvation Shines in Darkest Hours<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10796,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10795\/revisions\/10796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}