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The ambassadors of France and Germany paid a visit to Archbishop Marco Tin Win of Mandalay on August 21.

Cardinal Charles Maung Bo of Yangon appealed for peace and dialogue as Myanmar’s warring ethnic armed groups hold meetings later this month.

Three Dominican brothers from Myanmar — Stephen Saw Lej Kapaw Htoo, Marko Thoe Reh, and Francis Bu Ling — made their solemn profession at St. Joseph’s House in Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, on August 8.

The Archdiocese of Mandalay in Myanmar held a one-day workshop on how to write project proposals for sector and commission leaders last month.

The Karen National Union (KNU) in Myanmar has called for an international investigation into the killing of an ethnic Karen woman allegedly by government soldiers in Mutraw District, Karen State.

Archbishop Mark Tin Win of the Archdiocese of Mandalay has “entrusted” the archdiocese to the Our Lady of the Rosary.

Bishop John Hsane Hgyi, Catholic bishop of Pathein, paid a visit to quarantine centers located inside the Pathein University compound in Ayeyarwady Region in Myanmar on July 16.

Myanmar has failed to undertake meaningful reforms to bring its many rights-violating laws into compliance with international standards, Human Rights Watch said July 20 in a submission to the United Nations Human Rights (HRW) Council for Myanmar’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in January 2021.

On this grim day of sadness, we offer this nation to the protection of the Lord and pray that those who continue to sow seeds of hatred and disunity be “collected in bundles and consigned to the fire of history” as the master in the parable did.

The Catholic Diocese of Myitkyina in the northern part of Myanmar has distributed food aid to poor families and those badly affected by the coronavirus pandemic in 25 parishes.

A Catholic priest working in the Diocese of Pathein in Myanmar urged teachers to work for the promotion of Karen literature in schools.

Religious leaders in Myanmar appealed to the people for unity, “respect for one another” and to “seek the good of all” amid the raging conflict in the country's western Rakhine and Chin states.

It was originally an Anglican church in colonial times and was decorated with red brick in Gothic architecture style.

Leaders of Christian groups in Myanmar held an ecumenical prayer service on July 8 for the victims of the landslide that killed almost 200 people at a jade mine in the country’s northern Kachin State.

Myanmar’s top Catholic prelate blamed “greed” and “injustice” for the landslide that killed almost 200 people at a jade mine in the country’s northern Kachin State on July 2.

Here is the story of a young boy who volunteered to work in a quarantine center the Archdiocese of Yangon in Myanmar. His name is Emmanuel David from Fatima Church.

In this challenging situation of death or survival in the face of an anti-social virus, who dares to play with a dangerous visitor?

Bishop Philip Lasap Za Hawng, prelate of Lashio diocese in Myanmar’s Shan State, handed over to his successor, Coadjutor Bishop Lucas Jeimphaug Dau Ze, the pastoral responsibility over the diocese in simple ceremonies on June 24.

Violence against children during the armed conflict in Myanmar’s central Rakhine State has been on a sharp rise, despite urgent calls from the UN Secretary General for a global ceasefire to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic.

Myanmar confirmed its commitment to address child labor by ratifying the International Labor Organization’s Minimum Age Convention on June 8, days ahead of the observance of World Day Against Child Labor on June 12.