MCCCR ROUNTABLE II (5th July in Yangon)

We had just over 20 leaders representing organizations from Philippines, Thailand, Canada, US, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Australia & Malaysia at this meeting. Due to some security concerns, the Leaders from the MCCCR Committee were not able to join us. The chairman (Rev Arthur Ko Lay), vice chairman (Bishop Mawia), project coordinator (Rev Aung Thet Nyunt) and treasurer (Rev Jenson) however did join us for about 30 minutes right at the start of the MCCCR Roundtable II to explain the reasons why they felt they should not join in the meeting. I will explain that briefly here :

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