5 years ago, my friend sat in her family home in a village in Rakhine state. Several years earlier her father and older brother had left for Malaysia where they had secured work. Now, with their …
Stories (blog)
COVID-19 Prayer Focus
Father, You are majestic. You are the one true God who created all things. You reign over all. We join with the angels proclaiming: “Holy, Holy, Holy”. We cry out – spare the Rohingya from more …
Prayer Causes Earthquakes
Rohingyas are experiencing new freedoms. Wait, did I just say Rohingya and freedom in the same sentence? Surely I can’t mean the people group who were pushed out of the land of their birth in Myanmar, …
Longing For a Better Future
Growing up in Myanmar was very difficult for Amin*[name changed for safety reasons]. With no freedom of movement or possibilities for a job, he longed for a better future. In October of 2012, at the …
A Place for You
"Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if …
Education To Go
"I could not study in Myanmar because since 2012 we Rohingya are not allowed to attend universities any more. It is my dream to study physics. Now I'm in a refugee camp in Bangladesh. Before I came I …