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Promoting what is going on to the news and rallying on the Burmese embassies. Most of all, [it would help] for Christians to pray for the country and especially the Christians in Burma. Your praying and your identifying yourself with the struggle we are going through would mean so much for us.

What could people be praying for?

Right now, there's chaos. The prices are rising, and most Christians are very poor. They are struggling to buy basic necessities. It has been a great challenge that the pastors go through. They have obligations not only to provide for their families but to care for their flocks. When the prices are going up, it's very hard. It's really the pastors who are suffering most in terms of needing basic necessities.

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The New York Times and BBC News have collected their coverage of the protests and crackdown in Myanmar.

Other Christianity Today articles on Myanmar and the Burmese people include:

'Destroy the Christian Religion' | Campaign against Christians presses problem with refugee resettlement. (March 14, 2007)

The Town that Loves Refugees | Christians in Utica, New York are resettling the world one displaced soul at a time. (February 15, 2007)

Red-Light Rescue | The 'business' of helping the sexually exploited help themselves. (December 19, 2006)

Homeland Security's Catch-22 for Exiles | 'Ridiculous' interpretation of law bars thousands. (May 1, 2006)

Burma's Almost Forgotten | Christians find themselves battered by the world's longest civil war and a brutally repressive regime. (March 1, 2004)

Compassion Confusion | We should serve the needy even when it has bad political consequences. (Aug. 28, 2001)

The Homeless Church of Myanmar | In, after decades of cruel military regimes, democratic elections were held in Myanmar, and the National League for Democracy party won with over 80 percent of the vote. The military ignored 1990 the election results, seized control, and has set up the illegitimate (and wrongly named) State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) government. (Oct. 5, 1998)

Ethnic Politics Suppresses Outreach | The stunning success of Christian outreach among some ethnic minorities in Asia has fueled religious resentment and repression. (May 19, 1997)

Christian History & Biography has an issue on Adoniram Judson, a missionary to the Burmese.

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