The eternal life, right here, right now

April 5, 2026 — 5:30am

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Once a week I volunteer to help migrants learn English at a Melbourne university. At my campus, 70 per cent of the students are Christian minorities from Myanmar, persecuted by the military junta for both their ethnicity and their faith.

Most have harrowing stories of repeatedly hiding in the jungle or underground while troops rampaged through their villages. They fled across the border to Thailand, Malaysia or India, and waited 10 to 15 years in refugee camps, their lives in limbo, to........

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