• Burma comes closer

    Burma is never far away from the world news – even with our ‘first world’s’ egecentrism, the constant and cruel violations of the human rights there by the country’s military junta bring it to our TV screens regularly enough. Just the other week, in the Baptist World Alliance Annual Gathering, we were praying for the situation now that Aung San Suu Kyi, has been once again sentenced for house arrest in an attempt to trample her movement of peaceful resistance. But then a week or so ago, we’ve got a call – from the Czech Ministry of the Interior! (You can imagine various thoughts running through the Rector’s mind!) Pan…