Did You Know?

• Ethnic Karen were some of the first converts to Christianity in the Burma mission pioneered by Adoniram and Ann Judson in 1814.


• Karen have been a persecuted ethnic group in Burma for years. Estimates are that anywhere from 500,000 to one million Karen are in hiding and internally displaced in Burma.


• Over 155,000 refugees – mainly Karen – live in camps along the border of Burma in Thailand.


• The U.S. Government has been active in resettling up to 19,000 Karen, Chin and other refugees from these camps.
  from American Baptist International Ministries Update, Nov/Dec, 2008