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Prayer is critical for military-ruled Myanmar after Cyclone Nargis blasted the country’s western coast on Saturday, May 3, 2008, killing 23,000 people and leaving more than 42,000 others missing. Nearly half the country’s population, some 24 million people, have been affected by the storm. Since the cyclone hit, the military junta, which has kept the impoverished nation isolated for five decades to maintain its iron-fisted control, has been criticized for restricting access to foreign officials and organizations to the country, and aid groups were struggling to deliver relief goods. According to the World Evangelical Alliance Religious Liberty Commission, the junta has escalated its efforts—as its official policy states—to “destroy the Christian religion in Burma.” The junta also represses and persecutes the mostly Christian ethnic minorities and is waging a genocidal war against the ethnic Karen in the east.

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Emergency Prayer Alert-Myanmar (Burma)

Death toll from nation’s worst cyclone ever may reach 100,000

WIN PRAYER ALERT

Prayer is critical for military-ruled Myanmar after Cyclone Nargis blasted the country’s western coast onSaturday, May 3, 2008, killing 23,000 people and leaving more than 42,000 others missing.

A top U.S. diplomat in Myanmar said this week that the toll from the cyclone and its aftermath may reach 100,000, the Associated Press (AP) reported. Nearly half the country’s population, some 24 million people, has been affected by the storm.

Since the cyclone hit, the military junta, which has kept the impoverished nation isolated for five decades to maintain its iron-fisted control, has been criticized for restricting access to foreign officials and organizations to the country, and aid groups were struggling to deliver relief goods.

The cyclone came a week before a key referendum on a proposed constitution backed by the junta, the AP reported. State radio said the May 10, 2008 vote would be delayed until May 24, 2008  in 40 of 45 townships in the Yangon area and seven in the Irrawaddy delta. But it indicated the balloting would proceed in other areas as scheduled.

Operation World estimated that Burma is now 8.7 percent Christian, while 70 percent of the Burmese population is Buddhist.

According to the World Evangelical Alliance Religious Liberty Commission, the junta has escalated its efforts—as its official policy states—to “destroy the Christian religion in Burma.” The junta also represses and persecutes the mostly Christian ethnic minorities and is waging a genocidal war against the ethnic Karen in the east.

According to Window International Network’s Praying Through The Window 9 prayer calendar, the day of prayer for Myanmar is on day 22.

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