The chairman of the Rawang Literature and Culture Committee (RLCC) filed a lawsuit against them for leading a prayer service in the Nawngmun township on the 3rd of March.

According to UCA News, they are facing charges because of a penal code which criminalizes causing fear, spreading false news, and agitating for criminal offenses against government employees. They were praying for peace and that the fighting between the Burmese military and the pro-democracy forces in Kachin state, which has intensified in the last month, would cease.

A Kachin-based media reports that the pastors, who are elderly and in poor health, were sent to a prison on the 29th of June to await their court hearing on the 12th of July. Their imprisonment was met with an outcry from Christians in the country. Many are using social media to publish prayers and pleas for their release.

Source: persecution.org