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Published on: 03-01-2021
From February 7 to 13, Jimmy Shwe, a pastor and coordinator of the Karen Seventh-day Adventist Church outreach under the Adventist Refugee and Immigrant Ministries in the North American Division, guided the division’s more than 50 Karen congregations in a bilingual week of “United Prayer.” The Karen are an ethnic group from Myanmar (also known as Burma), many of whom fled due to religious and ethnic persecution by the government.
Each evening at 5:00 p.m. PST, between 80 and 130 Karen pastors, Bible workers, and church members joined a special Zoom meeting and prayed together. A few Karen families from Europe, Australia, and Myanmar also participated. The meetings were presented in the Karen language and included a special English prayer portion.