The head of the Episcopal Commission on Migrants and Itinerant People of the Philippine bishops’ conference called on Filipinos in Myanmar to take care as political tension continues to rise in the country.
Countries in Southeast Asia gave a tepid response to a coup in Myanmar on Monday, with no nation coming forward to condemn the military’s seizure of power, amid a general erosion of democracy in the region.
About 2,000 people from 12 villages in Myanmar called for an end to conflict in their areas during a demonstration in Doo Tha Htu District, Mon State, on January 24.
Education offers children a ladder out of poverty and a path to a promising future. But millions of children and adolescents around the world do not have the opportunity to enter or complete school.
A peace group in Myanmar called for a stop to what it described as “intensifying artillery attacks” by the Myanmar Tatmadaw or Myanmar Army in Papun and Nyaunglebin districts in the northern Karen State.
To become men of goodwill, you have to peacefully coexist with all the people in the country. That means, no manipulation of natural resources and eradicating the drug trade that ruins young people’s lives.
Jesuit seminarians in Taunggyi, Myanmar, welcomed the new year by spending time with orphans and persons with disabilities at the Infant Jesus' Home in Shan State.
Let us dream together for a day when peace based on economic and environmental justice prevails in Myanmar, the day when all the refugees, internally displaced people will return home as full citizens.
