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Cardinal Charles Maung Bo of Yangon expressed gratitude to the international community for the “global solidarity” as Myanmar continues to battle the coronavirus pandemic.

Like Jesus Christ, forced to flee. Welcoming, protecting, promoting and integrating internally displaced persons — Pope Francis

A film by Father John La Raw, a Catholic priest from Myanmar and former coordinator of Radio Veritas Asia’s Kachin Service, will soon be shown in 67 countries in Asia and Africa.

As a response to the challenge of the coronavirus pandemic in Myanmar, a major Catholic seminary in Yangon has been turned into a quarantine facility.

There are many "saintly" people around us if we look very carefully. Some really sacrifice their lives for the good of others.

Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, archbishop of Yangon, called on the people in Myanmar to “make a discerned choice” and “vote for peace” in the country’s coming national elections.

The flowering of robust democracy is the only hope for curing this nation, bleeding with fraternal conflict.

The Archdiocese of Mandalay has reopened churches for religious celebrations following months of strict quarantine measures imposed by the government due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Bishop John Hsane Hgyi of Pathein in Myanmar released on August 26 new guidelines that aim to prevent a “second wave” of the coronavirus pandemic in his diocese.

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.