Church in Myanmar

Arson and airstrikes destroyed more than 60 churches, including Buddhist temples in Myanmar, since the military junta rose to power after deposing democratically elected leaders in February 2021.

17 civilians including minors were killed and more than 30 people were injured in an airstrike on Myanmar churches in villages on January 7, 2024.

Pope Francis appointed Fr. Henry Eikhlein as bishop of the Diocese of Pathein, Myanmar.

As junta airstrikes terrorize Myanmar, church officials have organized prayer brigades and religious gatherings to intercede for peace.

​​​​​​​Bishop John dreams of a Myanmar wherein people are able to live peacefully, despite different faith and religions, and share and enjoy the feast days, or celebrations of the all faiths.

Myanmar’s newly appointed Bishop John Saw Yaw Han of Keng Tung Diocese promised the Catholics to work together with clergy, religious, and the faithful in his video message on November 11.

Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, SDB, gave out a clarion call to all in Myanmar to invest in hope, peace based on Justice.

A Myanmar priest opens up to describe what hope would look like for people under dictatorship for almost seven decades. The priest hopes for something unknown to bring us joy amid the recent military coup. Like Mother Mary, the Myanmar people do not know the future. But young priest invites fellow pilgrims to hold hands and move towards what we are hoping for and accept the situation like Mary. The author looks for great things to happen in Myanmar with just hope the month of December brings.

A new Cathedral church in the diocese of Phekhone in Shan State, Myanmar, was hit for the third time by artillery shells of the military soldiers on November 9.

Myanmar people have come together to serve the future generation as schools are permanently closed due to a military coup on February 1, 2021 amid a raging Covid-19 pandemic.

Three Kachin Baptist pastors facing a lawsuit for organizing prayers for peace were among more than 5,000 prisoners freed in Myanmar under a general amnesty granted to more than 5,000 political prisoners.

The Catholic church, a religious structure in the Diocese of Loikaw in Myanmar, was attacked by the junta soldiers on October 13.

In a report, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expresses concern that Myanmar's crisis could develop into a large-scale disaster.

Nearly 1,000 people in Chin state seek refuge from the military's indiscriminate attacks on civilian homes

Myanmar junta forces have reportedly occupied churches and destroyed stocks of food aid for refugees during clashes with ethnic armed forces and militias.

Members of the clergy in the Diocese of Pathein in Myanmar attended an online seminar on health care on September 4.

The Cathedral parish in the Diocese of Pathein in Myanmar distributed food supplies — rice, onions, oil, salt, eggs — to poor parishioners on August 22.

Father Girish Santiago, a Jesuit missionary priest now working in Myanmar, shares with us an excerpt of his book on learning the local language

Archbishop Emeritus Matthias U Shwe of the Diocese of Taunggyi in Myanmar died on August 12 in the town of Taunggyi in Shan state. He was 78.

It has become a tradition for young Catholics in Myanmar to honor their parents every year during the feast of St. Joachim and St. Anne, the parents of Mary, on July 26.