You don't think much of it at first; it's just a sore spot on the bottom of your foot. Once it becomes a raised white bump with a black dot in the middle, you give it a little touch—and it moves! That's when you realize that you've got a tiny parasite living under your skin known in Africa as a jigger, the world's smallest known flea.
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As we've worked over the past decade to serve orphans around the world, we've encountered cultural customs that are sometimes difficult for us to understand and accept. One is the common practice of divorced and widowed mothers in Myanmar marrying men who demand that they relinquish children from their former marriage.
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In the minds of many rural Burmese people, nats are everywhere. I'm not speaking of the insects that we refer to as gnats, but to spirits that allegedly inhabit trees, rocks, mountains and lakes—spirits that are flawed, possess immoral desires, and that need to be regularly appeased by the offerings of fearful worshippers.
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Tial Phawng and her husband, U Sang Hleih, both loved the Lord. U Sang was raised in a Christian family, and he committed himself to the Lord in his youth. Tial gave her heart to Jesus in 1971. Together, they had three children whom they raised in their little home on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar.
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I liked him from the moment we met. Like most Mexicans, he has three names that reveal his lineage. His middle name, Mercado, is his father's last name, and his last name, Hernandez, is his mother's last name.
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Worthless. Unwanted. And Cursed. Those are a few of the labels that, branded deeply into "Sinak's" heart, continually tormented her.
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I'm not a big fan of altar calls. They leave people with the false impression that salvation is granted to anyone who comes forward and repeats a prayer. The truth is, however, that salvation is granted to those who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and repent.
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