The following report comes direct from a senior Christian leader in Myanmar where four villages on the Thai border, each with a Christian community, face starvation because the border is closed due to Covid. Other Christian communities are helping them by giving them rice, cooking oil, salt, etc.:
We do not know how to be good citizens and Christians in Myanmar in this difficult time. To obey the military government, or to stand with the people who are anti-government?
Christians in Myanmar are not persecuted by the military government, but are facing the decision whether to obey or disobey their orders. Some of them disobey because they say ‘this military government’ is not real government. They say: ‘All top leaders in the military government are the greatest robbers and thieves in the world. So we do not need to obey any orders they issue.’ But other Christians say: ‘All authorities come from God. So if God did not allow them they could not carry out the coup. We do not know how God will give us lessons to learn from this event.’
