Are missionaries a disease risk to your nation?

 

Many of the Evangelicals in the United States are anti-vaxxers. It is not surprising that some missionaries are anti-vaxxers. 

Protestia, June 22, 2026, "Sent Home: How the IMB’s Vaccine Policy is Forcing Missionaries Off the Field.

https://protestia.com/2026/06/22/sent-home-how-the-imbs-vaccine-policy-is-forcing-missionaries-off-the-field/

He was from Canada, and was part of the world wide anti-vax thinking of Evangelicals. In a crisis a missionary could risk the health of a whole community. 

Reuters, April 15, 2020, "Myanmar charges preacher for defying virus ban on services."

(Reuters) - A Myanmar preacher who posted a sermon online saying Christians were immune to the coronavirus will face charges along with three other people for organising services in defiance of a ban on mass gatherings, local authorities said on Wednesday.

In a sermon posted online in late March, David Lah had told followers: "If you hear the sermon of God, the virus will never come to you, I declare it with the soul of Jesus Christ."

https://www.reuters.com/article/world/myanmar-charges-preacher-for-defying-virus-ban-on-services-idUSKCN21X2Q7/ 

Another article where they mention he came from Canada.


https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/canadian-pastor-charged-in-myanmar-for-defying-covid-19-restriction-on-gatherings-1.5570044

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