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Latest News from BMS World Missison 07/01/10
We arrive fresh into a new year and a new decade, yet for many vulnerable, marginalised and impoverished communities the same problems continue as they did last year and for many years gone by.
Take for example Burmese people displaced from their own land because of fighting and forced to live in camps on the Thai border. There are more than 140,000 of them, with many older people existing there for 25 years.
You can find out more about the plight of refugees by reading an article by BMS worker Pete Maycock, who visited a camp recently and met people like Low-Low, a teacher without a future.
Also new on the website: news on mudslides in Brazil, a feature about health education for women in Nepal and prayer from the BMS Sicily Action Team. There are also details of an exciting job opportunity at BMS' office in Oxfordshire.
Finally, be sure to check out next week's e-mail update when we launch our Team Nicaragua Appeal ahead of the forthcoming Street Child World Cup.
Different year, same border
Click below to read about the desperate situation facing those living inside camps on the Thai-Burma border.
http://www.bmsworldmission.org/432107
50 die in Brazil mudslides
Disaster has hit the south east states of Brazil, killing dozens and displacing thousands. Click below to find out more.
http://www.bmsworldmission.org/432165
Does the baby really look like this inside?
Click below as BMS worker Cynthia Chadwell explains how a women's Bible study in Nepal has led to fascinating discussions - see picture right.
http://www.bmsworldmission.org/432132
Prayer: God at work in Sicily
Click below for reflections from the BMS Action Team, working with a church on the Italian island of Sicily.
http://www.bmsworldmission.org/432103
BMS Prayer Guide
Click below for daily prayers about Nepal until Sunday, with a focus on Tunisia next week. The new issue of the whole Prayer Guide is now available to download online.
http://www.bmsworldmission.org/prayerguide
UK job vacancy
We are looking for the right person to take up a key post organising our short-term programmes for volunteers. Click below for details of this opportunity.
http://www.bmsworldmission.org/431664
Feature photos made available
If you want to use our photos for your church services and other meetings we are now starting to share a selection of them in high-resolution through our new Twitter account. To access images - this week from two of our web stories - follow the link below.
http://www.twitpic.com/photos/BMSWorldMission
by kind permission of BMS World Mission
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