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World Service,27 Jul 2017,13 mins

Burmese Refugees Who Saved a US Church

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In 2008, the All Saints Episcopal church in Smyrna, a small town in a rural part of Tennessee in the United States, was on its last legs. Most of the parishioners had left, and the building was falling apart. But then a group of Karen refugees fleeing the civil war in Myanmar arrived in the community - and the church's fortunes were transformed. Photo: Ye Win (L) and vicar Michael Spurlock (R)

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