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I have been closely following the Rohingya story since February 2025, hearing through LinkedIn the reports from Rohingya refugees themselves as well as multiple news stories about them. Stories about the suffering of a people who have, for decades, faced some of the worst discrimination the world has seen. They are stories that haven’t reached the western world where the focus has been on other world atrocities. The Rohingya are a forgotten people.

Although genocide in Myanmar, their country of origin, continues even today in 2025, the largest influx of Rohingya fled in 2017, resulting in a refugee camp in Bangladesh—the largest in the world—today numbering more than a million individuals.

Yes, this is a story everyone needs to hear.

Telling you this reminds me of a song I used to sing, and I’m singing it now. “Tell me the Old Story of Jesus and his Love.”

I’ve been telling that story to my Rohingya friends from when I first met them. In the process I’ve seen Jesus’s story reflected in the lives of their people. The Rohingya story I’m telling you now is part of Christ’s story. Can you see it?

marja