After ABHMS hosted a meeting of the Burma Refugee Commission in August, American Baptist leaders sent letters expressing concern for the safety of two Baptist Kachin leaders who returned home to Myanmar.
ABHMS hosted a
graduation ceremony last month for students of the Children's Defense Fund Freedom School of Philadelphia's Somerset Academy Early Learning Center, a partner of ABHMS Rizpah's Children's ministry.
Standing in continued
solidarity with American Baptist Churches of Puerto Rico, ABHMS supported the organization's recent statement that addressed political upheaval caused by harmful comments by the now former governor.
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