Christians disappointed over Sunday meeting with Chief Minister

25 October 2013: Christians in Matupi Town, Chin State expressed their disappointment over a recent meeting organized last Sunday by Pu Hung Ngai, Chief Minister of the Chin State government.

They said that he summoned the meeting of ministers, department heads, district administrators, local government officials, and community and religious leaders between 7:30 and 9:45am in the morning.

“Some Christian leaders had to cancel their church programs of leading the congregation and others missed worship services,” said one of the Matupi leaders.

According to the Hakha Post, about 250 people participated in the meeting in which a session for handing over a donation of 1million Kyats by a Burmese company for the Matupi Na Ta La school was included.

Arriving around 4:30pm from Mindat Town, Chief Minister Hung Ngai, accompanied by three ministers, department heads and Mindat District Administrative Officers, visited the Na Ta La school and Women’s Vocational Training School in Matupi.

About 99% of the population in Matupi are Christian.#