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Displaced people in Myanmar are seen at a shelter in a makeshift tent camp near a railway track in Amarapura, a township of Mandalay city, April 4, 2025. A 7.7 magnitude earthquake hit Myanmar midday March 28, with the death toll reaching 3,145 as of April 3. Another 4,589 are wounded and 221 are still missing. Burmese Archbishop Marco Tin Win of Mandalay said that the suffering of his people has brought them closer to God and that "today, our people have hope in God's mercy, in the certainty of his love." (OSV News photo/Reuters)

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Archbishop encourages hope as death toll in Myanmar surpasses 3,000

Junno Arocho Esteves|Apr 4, 2025|3 Min Read

A migrant worker from Myanmar reacts while he waits for news about his brother, as search and rescue operations continue in Bangkok, Thailand, April 1, 2025, following a 7.7 magnitude earthquake that hit midday March 28. Rescue workers saved a 63-year-old woman from the rubble of a building in Myanmar’s capital Naypyitaw April 1, but hope was fading of finding many more survivors of the violent earthquake that killed thousands, compounding a humanitarian crisis caused by a civil war. (OSV News photo/Chalinee Thirasupa, Reuters)

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Myanmar death toll surpasses 2,000; cardinal calls for immediate ceasefire amid tragedy

Junno Arocho Esteves|Mar 31, 2025|3 Min Read

A woman is pictured in a file photo praying at a church in Yangon, Myanmar, Nov. 28, 2017. Fides, the news agency of the Dicastery for Evangelization, reported March 5, 2025, that a pastoral center on the grounds of St. Michael's Catholic Church in Nan Hlaing, located in the northern Diocese of Banmaw was targeted and destroyed by two aerial bombs. (OSV News photo/Jorge Silva, Reuters)

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Pastoral center in northern Myanmar among latest Catholic sites bombed by governing military junta

Junno Arocho Esteves|Mar 7, 2025|2 Min Read

A soldier from the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) stands on lookout in 2012. (Simon Roughneen/Shutterstock)

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Catholic priest murdered in the Kachin area of Myanmar

Nirmala Carvalho|Feb 17, 2025|2 Min Read

Pope Francis meets with Aung San Suu Kyi, winner of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize, in the Diplomatic Corps Hall at the Vatican on Nov. 28, 2017. (L’Osservatore Romano/CNA)

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Pope tells fellow Jesuits he'd give refuge to jailed Myanmar leader

Cindy Wooden|Sep 24, 2024|4 Min Read

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Masked gunmen shoot priest during Mass as Myanmar's civil war reaches critical phase

OSV News|Apr 13, 2024|2 Min Read

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Deadly Cyclone Mocha hit Myanmar areas where persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority lives

OSV News|May 16, 2023|5 Min Read

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Some Christians in Myanmar prepare to spend second Christmas in camps

Catholic News Service|Dec 15, 2022|4 Min Read

Pah Kler, a Burmese Catholic catechist who supervises the movement of food and other humanitarian supplies to internally displaced families hiding in the forests of Myanmar, loads food on a boat in Mae Sam Laep, a Thai village on the Salween River, which marks the border between Thailand and Myanmar, Sept. 29, 2022. Boats are loaded here with food and other humanitarian supplies, the first stage of transporting the material to communities of displaced people within Myanmar. (CNS photo/Paul Jeffrey)

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To help those in hiding, catechists from Myanmar deliver food, supplies

Paul Jeffrey|Oct 25, 2022|5 Min Read

A statue of St. Michael the Archangel is seen at the Church of St. Michael in New York City. Hundreds of Catholics in Myanmar celebrated the feast of St. Michael Sept. 29, days after their village was shelled. (CNS Photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)

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Despite fighting, Myanmar Catholics celebrate feast of parish patron saint

Catholic News Service|Sep 30, 2022|2 Min Read

A photo shows debris inside of Mother of God Church in Mobye, Myanmar. Soldiers in Myanmar used the church as a kitchen and laid mines around the building in mid-September, church sources told ucanews.com. (CNS photo/supplied)

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Myanmar's soldiers used church as kitchen, laid land mines

Catholic News Service|Sep 14, 2022|2 Min Read

A man who said his village was burned and relatives killed by Myanmar soldiers comforts his wife as Rohingya refugees arrive by a wooden boat from Myanmar in Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh, Oct. 1, 2017. (CNS photo/Damir Sagolj, Reuters)

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U.N. report: Myanmar junta 'committing systematic crimes against humanity'

Catholic News Service|Aug 10, 2022|3 Min Read

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