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February 05, 2013 News & Features » Cover Story

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How refugees from the Chin state of Burma helped resurrect a historic Richmond church, one family at a time.

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At a jungle outpost on the edge of Burma, Samuel Lian, 15, boarded a small fishing boat with his 12-year-old brother. Their guide instructed them to lie down and covered them with a thick, black tarp. It was 2007 and the…

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