Tag: Myanmar

For the last five months, our faith is challenged. How to believe in a God when everything goes against God’s love in the reality?

He was the first missionary to Zang Yaw, the remotest place in Putao parish under the Diocese of Myitkyina, in Myanmar

Myanmar’s efforts to contain the pandemic were dealt a substantial blow when the military orchestrated a coup d’état in February

Cardinal Bo said Myanmar is experiencing “dark moments of challenges” as thousands "are in desperate need for food, medicine and shelter”

Cardinal Bo: "Let the darkness go away. Let the old order of hatred, ruthless power pass away. Let there be a new Myanmar"

The pope also reminded the faithful to “open our hearts to refugees” and to “make their sadness and joys our own”

For decades a symbol of the fight for democracy under previous juntas, Aung San Suu Kyi often wore flowers in her hair

"Let us believe. Let us hope. Let the God of Moses who walked with the Israelites in the desert lead us to the promised land."

Fighting in the eastern part of the country between the military and local militias caused damage to at least eight churches

The United Nations estimates nearly 110,000 people have been displaced in Myanmar's Kayah State by the recent violence