News & Info Links

The websites listed below are excellent places to get current news on what is happening with Burma and more information about various ministries that are seeking God for change in this troubled country.  All the links will open a new window.

Willl you commit to pray regularly for Burma?  Be counted as a part of our Billion Persons for Burma campaign.

www.prayforburma.org

Christians Concerned for Burma (CCB) works to support the people of Burma through prayer, sharing the love of Jesus Christ, advocacy and action.

Vision: To be a part of God's Kingdom in Burma, to see people in a relationship with Jesus Christ, and to support political freedom, justice, liberty and reconciliation in Burma.

Mission: To encourage people to pray and act for Burma, to share the good news of Jesus Christ and to help those in need.
To facilitate the annual Global Day of Prayer for Burma the second Sunday of March every year. The CCB encourages people all over the world pray and act for the Burma.

www.freeburmarangers.org

A multi-ethnic humanitarian service movement providing medical assistance, hope, love and the gospel to displaced people under attack in the war zones.  Ethnic teams are trained, supplied and sent into the areas under attack to provide emergency assistance and human rights documentation. They treat malaria, pneumonia, dysentery and malnutrition. They deliver babies.  They are general practitioners for families on the run.

The teams also operate a communication and information network inside Burma that provides real time information from areas under attack.

www.irrawaddy.org

The Irrawaddy magazine and its website cover Burma and Southeast Asia, providing in-depth news, information and analysis to international readers. The Irrawaddy is published by Irrawaddy Publishing Group (IPG), an independent, nonprofit media organization. IPG was established in 1993 by Burmese journalists living in exile and is not affiliated with any political organization or government.

www.worldaidinc.org

World Aid was founded in 1989.  In late 1992, because of the growing crisis in Burma, World Aid mobilized to work in a growing capacity with internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Burma and with refugees along the Thai/Burma border.

While the majority of support provided to this region through non-governmental organizations (NGOs) goes to the refugee population residing in organized but unofficial refugee camps in Thailand, the largest and most difficult problem is that of the internally displaced persons (IDPs) still living inside Burma.  This population has seen their villages and homes destroyed, livestock killed and stolen, rice fields destroyed and mined, rice barns burned, and cooking pots destroyed.  Family members have been raped, murdered and taken away for forced labor. These people are World Aid's primary concern. They seek to serve them through advocacy, medical relief, emergency supplies and educational assistance.

www.compasio.org

Compasio was formed in 2006 to focus the issue of women and children at risk in Thailand. Their ministry is focused on the Burmese migrant community and tribal groups living along the Thai-Burmese border, who are among the poorest and highest at-risk people groups of Thailand.  Seeing a need, feeling compassion and acting with practical love on behalf of those who are poor, needy and at risk, this is the heart of Compasio.

See---Feel---Act

www.partnersworld.org

Vision  Free, full lives for the children of Burma.
Hope  Reconciled communities living in peace.
Mission:  Through holistic action, to demonstrate God’s love to children and communities made vulnerable by war in Burma.
Methods:  Assist those, especially children, affected by war and now living in hide sites in Burma’s conflict zones, and refugee camps and migrant communities along the Thai-Burma border.

Provide emergency relief including food, clothing, rubber boots, water, medicine, shelter, and vital survival supplies.

Provide sustainable long-term solutions by building health clinics, providing health care training, supplementing war zone education systems and hosting agricultural training.

Helping internally displaced, refugee and orphaned children; providing nutritional, medical, educational and spiritual care.

Advocacy  Educate, publish and develop partnerships. Empower people, leaders and communities to do the same.  If you see some brother or sister in need and have the means to do something about it but turn a cold shoulder and do nothing, what happens to God's love? It disappears. And you made it disappear ... let's not just talk about love; let's practice real love. This is the only way we'll know we're living truly, living in God's reality.  (I John 3:16-18, The Message)

www.khrg.org

The Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG) is a local, independent group documenting the human rights situation in rural Burma by working directly with rural villagers who are suffering abuses such as forced labor, systematic destruction of villages and crops, forced relocation, extortion, looting, arbitrary detention, torture, sexual assault and summary executions. The vast majority of these abuses are committed by soldiers and officials of the State Peace & Development Council (SPDC), Burma's ruling military junta.  KHRG members work in areas where it is possible to avoid SPDC forces, gathering photos and other evidence and interviewing villagers, the internally displaced, and refugees. Their aim is to help villagers in rural Burma to get their story to the outside world by translating their stories and testimonies for worldwide distribution, accompanied by supporting photos and documentary evidence of the human rights situation in rural areas. They also conduct workshops and other support activities in Karen villages to help villagers further develop their strategies for claiming human rights at local level.

www.maetaoclinic.org

The Mae Tao Clinic (MTC), founded and directed by Dr. Cynthia Maung, provides free health care for refugees, migrant workers, and other individuals who cross the border from Burma to Thailand. People of all ethnicities and religions are welcome at the Clinic. Its origins go back to the student pro-democracy movement in Burma in 1988 and the brutal repression by the Burmese regime of that movement.

Since 1989 MTC has grown from one small house to a large complex of simple buildings that provide a wide variety of health services to different groups of people. Today it serves a target population of approximately 150,000 on the Thai-Burma border. About 50% of those who come to MTC for medical attention are migrant workers in the Mae Sot area; the other 50% travel cross-border from Burma for care.

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allburmamonksalliance.org

A religious and social service provider organization staffed by and composed of Burmese Buddhist monks from the 2007 Saffron Revolution.  They currently are supporting and providing assistance to refugee monks inside and outside of Burma.

The A.B.M.A was formed by a group of senior monks as a response to the severe economic and social problems existing in Burma in 2007.  The A.B.M.A. leaders are recognized as the primary organizers and coordinators of the activities of the so-called Saffron Revolution in September, 2007.  As a result of their activities in September 2007, thousands of monks and individual citizens were arrested and tortured. Some remain in prison.  Some went into hiding inside Burma, and others left Burma as refugees.  The A.B.M.A has established an assistance network for these internal and external refugees, both monks and civilian democracy activists.

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