"Religion and the large religious communities in Indonesia have been key factors in more people getting involved and helping out over the past five years.", CAF Report 2022.
For over 25 years, the Sisters of St. Francis Xavier (SFX) community in Putao served the girls from rural villages that had difficulties attending schools.
“Whenever I faced difficulties during those 25 years, I sacrificed them and prayed to God,” says U Soe Naing, a catechist in the Archdiocese of Mandalay, Myanmar.
A young and active Catholic teacher, Robert Saw Ye Thiha, in the Diocese of Pathein in the Ayeyarwaddy Region of Myanmar, was killed at his house on October 17. He was 34.
A professional singer in Myanmar felt that something was lacking in her life. She asked herself what God wanted her to do. She thought that it was not her vocation to be a successful singer.
Joseph Win Hlaing Oo walked a hard journey to establish the so-called first private Catholic university, Joseph Education University, for the welfare of the lay Catholics and the country’s development to offer accessible, reliable, and global higher education in Myanmar.
Myanmar Church Leader, Cardinal Charles Bo, welcomed Msgr. Andrea Ferrante, Chargé d’affaires of Vatican to Myanmar, and his companion Msgr. Daniel Tumiel on October 9, at the parish feast of St. Francis Assisi in Yangon, Myanmar.
After two years of hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the annual retreat of the catechists of Yangon Archdiocese in Myanmar was held from October 2 to 6, 2022.
For 15 years, John Naw Lawn, a 67-year-old Catholic priest from Myitkyina Diocese, Myanmar, immersed himself in the mission of the Holy Childhood Association.
Sr. Rosalind Arokiaswami, a missionary in Myanmar with the Sisters of the Infant Jesus, recounts the decisive moment in her faith journey when she decided "to be ready to give my life for people, especially the poor."
