Tag: Myanmar

POWERFUL Cyclone Mocha has hit the coastlines of Bangladesh and Myanmar after intensifying into the equivalent of a category-five storm, ...

SOME 90,000 Myanmarese refugees live in nine camps on the Thai side of the border. At the height of displacement ...

THE Catholic Church in Asia stands at the crossroads of history amid poverty, climate change, political conflicts, disagreements and economic ...

MYANMAR’s Catholic prelate, Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, has warned the military in his country is cracking down hard on dissident ...

By Catholic News Agency GOVERNMENT soldiers ransacked and burned a Catholic church in a village in eastern Myanmar Wednesday, sources ...

THE Myanmar military is accused of burning down an historic Catholic village during a raid. At least 320 of an ...

SOME 40 soldiers forcibly took control of a Catholic cathedral in Myanmar’s northern city of Mandalay prior to a Lenten ...

CARDINAL Charles Bo of Yangon has sought the intercession of Mary for protection, healing and mercy for conflict-torn Myanmar, locked ...

By CNS and Mark Bowling IN March this year the photos and video of a 45-year-old nun on her knees ...

CELEBRATING a Mass for peace in Myanmar, Pope Francis has urged the country's Catholics to "keep the faith." "To keep ...

Call for peace: Anti-coup protesters stand at a barricade as they clash with security forces on Bayint Naung Bridge in ...

Sister of Francis Xavier nun, Nu Thawng, begs Myanmar police not to shoot civilian protesters. Source: Twitter A solitary, distressed ...

Myanmar mourns: A funeral procession for Thet Naing Win, one of two people shot dead when police in Mandalay tried ...

Nuns show the three-finger salute outside the Chinese Embassy in Yangon, Myanmar, as they protest against the military coup and ...

Takeover: Soldiers look on they stand inside city hall after they seized control of the building in Yangon, Myanmar’s former ...

Visitor: Cardinal Charles Bo of Yangon, Myanmar. Photo: CNS CARDINAL Charles Bo, the Archbishop of Yangon, has praised Australian efforts ...

Rebuilding: A boy sits amid debris after a fire destroyed shelters at a camp for people displaced by violence in ...

On the move: Young people help move stock through floodwaters in Kalay diocese in the northern part of Chin state.Photo: ...