{"id":74854,"date":"2019-10-27T22:21:25","date_gmt":"2019-10-27T15:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freeburmarangers.org\/?p=74854"},"modified":"2019-10-27T22:21:25","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T15:21:25","slug":"update-religious-oppression-wa-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/2019\/10\/27\/update-religious-oppression-wa-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on Religious Oppression in Wa State"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"p1\">Update on Religious Oppression in Wa State<\/h1>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>27\u00a0October 2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Wa State, Burma<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-74859\" src=\"https:\/\/www.freeburmarangers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/WaState-01-1024x683.png\" alt=\"WaState-01\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/WaState-01-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/WaState-01-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/WaState-01-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Earlier this month\u00a0we met with a Wa\u00a0friend\u00a0who has been serving as a Wa pastor for 36 years and was with us on our first Wa and first Burma missions in 1993.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He told me of a dream he had where he saw a war in heaven when he was a new believer and decided to follow Jesus when he woke up. He became a pastor and evangelist in Burma and Thailand and helped established hostels in both countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He came by to share about the persecution of Christians in Wa State now. In northern Wa State (which is inside Shan State, Burma), no Christmas is allowed and people are having to worship in secret at home. 200 churches have now been shut down in northern Wa State. Amidst churches being closed and worship prohibited, pastors are being arrested with five pastors currently being held. They\u2019ve been told they will not be released until they renounce their faith.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The main church in Pangsang, the Wa capital, was closed and desecrated. A witch doctor was brought in to throw blood in the church and curse it to drive out the spirit of Jesus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In southern, Wa State, which is along the Thai border and led by Wei Shau Kang, worship is still allowed and there are over 70 churches there now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">We will continue to help this pastor and the Wa people as we can. Right now we help support a Wa seminary and 32 Wa seminary students in Tachilek. We will keep praying about more ways to help and ask you to pray with us for the Wa people. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Thank you and God bless you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Dave Eubank and the Free Burma Rangers<\/span><\/p>\n<script type='text\/javascript'>\nvar post=eval({\"id\":74854,\"title\":\"Update on Religious Oppression in Wa State\",\"subject\":\"FBR: Update on Religious Oppression in Wa State\",\"admin_email\":\"info@freeburmarangers.org\",\"admin_name\":\"FBR\"});\n<\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update on Religious Oppression in Wa State 27\u00a0October 2019 Wa State, Burma Earlier this month\u00a0we met with a Wa\u00a0friend\u00a0who has been serving as a Wa pastor for 36 years and was with us on our first Wa and first Burma &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/2019\/10\/27\/update-religious-oppression-wa-state\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":74859,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reports"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.7.8","language":"my","enabled_languages":["en","my"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"my":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74854"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75010,"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74854\/revisions\/75010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}