WASHINGTON — Several Baptist World Alliance (BWA) groups are providing help after a Baptist church collapsed in a village in Myanmar following a severe earthquake March 24.
The Baptist church in Kyakuni, a mostly Lahu village in eastern Shan state, near the border with Thailand, collapsed after the 6.8 magnitude quake, leaving 25 dead and 57 injured. The relief and development arm of the BWA sent a grant of $10,000 and the Asia Pacific Baptist Federation, a regional fellowship of BWA, sent $5,000.
The Myanmar Baptist Convention mobilized approximately $11,000 from local churches for emergency relief.
There was extensive damage to roads and bridges and communication was disrupted. Thirty-one churches and monasteries, 11 schools and one hospital sustained severe damage.
An undetermined number of people died as a result of the quake, but some estimates put the death toll at more than 150.
The earthquake was felt as far away as Bangkok in Thailand and Hanoi in Vietnam.
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