Myanmar

For over thirty years, the Pwo Karen people of Myanmar have longed for the Living Word of God to be accessible to them in their own language. They have been persistently asking for Bibles to be printed in their native tongue for just as long. Your support made it possible for Bible League Canada to…

When a typhoon makes landfall in Myanmar, people have few places to hide. Many of those who survive are left with absolutely nothing as the violent storm destroys homes and possessions. Thiha survived a terrible typhoon in 2008, and the devastation changed his life. Made homeless by the typhoon, Thiha was living with friends. One…

It was a day like any other. Tha Tan Shay fed her family a meager breakfast and sent them off to the fields to work. Her husband was ill, and had been for some time. When her children went out to work, their father was alive. When they returned, he was dead. “They asked where…

U Nay Tun, a believer from Myanmar, battled cancer for years, being diagnosed again and again. He was diagnosed with cancer three times before meeting a follower of Christ who shared the Word of God with him. That encounter “changed my life tremendously,” recalls U Nay Tun. When this follower of Christ met with him,…

My name is Nyi Nyi Zaw. I was born into a religious family. My parents are strong Buddhists. I grew up in the town of Myin Chan in Myanmar. When I was young, my parents sent me to a Buddhist monastery to become a monk. I spent 17 years as a monk and learned Buddhist…