Myanmar Union Adventist Seminary property with paddy fields and gardening areas. It is situated on the route of Yangon-Pathein waterway. It is accredited college by Adventist Accrediting Association, Maryland, USA and is the only college of Myanmar Union Mission, Myanmar. Myanmar Union Adventist Seminary/College (MUAS), formerly Known as the Union Bible Seminary, started as a small Seventh-day Adventist Mission School in 1938 at Myaung Mya to provide Christian education for young people of Myanmar. In 1960, under the direction of Elder W. W. Christensen, progenitor of Seminary program, 15 denominational workers, mostly under high school graduates, enrolled for a two-year training course. They were
Freedom of religion in Myanmar member of the Phawkkan Evangelical Church. Yeh Zaw had earlier written a letter to the regime leader urging him to end the persecution of his church that Rangoon authorities closed earlier in 2006, banning members from worshipping there. Police charged him with travelling without an identity card. In 2005 local authorities in the Chin State capital of Hakha notified Baptist leaders that they would be forced to relocate an active, historic cemetery from church property to a remote location outside of town. Religious leaders reported that authorities continued to forcefully relocate cemeteries in many parts of the country. In the