Tayub greets me with a big hug, saying: “You are my family in Malaysia – you are like my big brother! You have shown me kindness and helped me.”Tayub arrived alone in Malaysia as a 15 year old boy. …
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Boat Prayer
Recent news reports tell of boats carrying Rohingya refugees, bound for Malaysia, being refused entry due to the Covid-19 lockdown. The boats are left to drift at sea without sufficient food or water …
Longing for Education – And More
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 …
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 …