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The congregation of the Myanmar Christian Fellowship is requesting urgent prayer after violence broke out recently in the Northern Kachin State of their home-cou'ntry of Myanmar.

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pleads for prayer for peace in Burma
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BATON ROUGE - The tiny congregation of the Myannar Christian Fellowship has an urgent request for Louisiana Baptists; Please pray for peace in Burma. The 30 or so members of
the Fellowship, which meets

our fellow Christians and the Baptists of Louisiana to pray q-ith us for peace."

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other displaced Burmese around the world n a24 hour fast and prayer for their country. During the Sunday sewice, about 30 members of the Fellowship held hands in a circle and fervently prayed in the Burmese language.

in the "old" sancfuary of Parkview Baptist Church, got word over Father's Dav weekend that violence had broken out in the Northern Kachin State of their home country of
Myanmar.
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LaMa, with tears flowing down his cheeks, read fromPsalm 142,"with my voice I cry out to the Lord; ... no refuge remains for me ... deliver mefrom my persecutors." His Burmese Bible was

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