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Engraving of an empty suspension footbridge over a river in the Chin Hills, black ink on aged paper, one crimson cloth knotted to the near post.

Eighty Prisoners of War Broke Out of a Resistance Jail in Tedim on Sunday Night. On Monday Afternoon the Assistant Pastor of Lamzang Was Shot Three Times at the Kapte Bridge. His Convention's Letter Quoted Matthew 25:21 and Did Not Say How He Died.

Dal Thawn Tuang, assistant pastor of Lamzang Baptist Church in Chin State, was shot three times at the Kapte bridge on September 14. The institute that confirmed his death says the military killed him. The Burmese press says escaped prisoners of war did.

A small group standing in a circle at dusk, heads bowed, one lantern lit, a lighthouse on the horizon

The Prayer Board, week of September 20

Post a request. Pray for someone else's. Members only, first names, one request per comment.

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I Have Initialed Boxes I Did Not Read to Get Something I Wanted. Oregon Asked a Widow With Five Children to Initial One She Did Not Believe Before It Would Let Her Love a Sixth. On September 9 the State Signed Instead. Read Paragraph Five.

Oregon told a widowed mother of five she could adopt no child unless she agreed to words she did not believe. On September 9 the state signed a two page order. Paragraph five is the part worth reading.

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They Waited for the Bus Door to Open at Dungus Junction. Nine Died on the Road to Jos, Four More Are Named in Mangu, and the Conductor, Four Days Into the Job, Hid While They Emptied His Pockets.

Nine died when gunmen fired on a bus at Dungus Junction, Kuru, on Sunday night. Four more are named in Mangu. The conductor, four days into the job, hid while they took his phone.

Everyone Will Call This the Graham Family's Ambassador. Read the Statute. The Chair Has Been Empty for Twenty Months, Xi Lands in Eight Days, and the Job Was Never to Free Prisoners. It Was to Make Sure Someone in the Room Asks.

Everyone Will Call This the Graham Family's Ambassador. Read the Statute. The Chair Has Been Empty for Twenty Months, Xi Lands in Eight Days, and the Job Was Never to Free Prisoners. It Was to Make Sure Someone in the Room Asks.

Cissie Graham Lynch is nominated to an office empty since January 2025. The statute says what it can and cannot do, and Xi Jinping arrives before any vote.

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Thirty Police Came for a Reading Group in Chengdu on Friday Afternoon. They Took Eleven People, Most of Them Past Sixty, One of Them With a Single Lung. The Charge, When It Came, Was Ten Days for Preaching.

Eleven Early Rain members, most past sixty, taken from a Friday reading group in Chengdu. Nine out by Saturday. Two elders got ten days, no judge, for preaching.

I Have Sat Through Funerals Where the Fight Was Over the Hymns. In a Village in Chhattisgarh the Fight Was Over Whose God Got the Body, and It Ended With Ganga Water on the Living.

I Have Sat Through Funerals Where the Fight Was Over the Hymns. In a Village in Chhattisgarh the Fight Was Over Whose God Got the Body, and It Ended With Ganga Water on the Living.

The worst argument I have witnessed at a funeral was about a hymn. One side of the family wanted the old one, the other side wanted the new one, and the pastor, wiser than any of us, had both played and let the organ absorb the grievance. Nobody's