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Bishop to visit internally displaced in Myanmar
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MANDALAY (UCAN): Bishop Raymond Sumlut Gam of Banmaw, in Myanmar’s troubled Kachin State, has planned Christmas visits to camps for people displaced by violent clashes between rebels and government forces. |
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Catholic church attacked in Kachin
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MANDALAY (UCAN): Witnesses reported that the Holy Family Catholic Church and a nearby house in Kamaing Kawng Ra village in Hpakant township, Kachin State, were attacked by Myanmese military amid sporadic fighting with Kachin rebels. |
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Myanmar’s forgotten civil war goes on
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MANDALAY (UCAN): A largely forgotten civil war has been raging in Kachin State, Myamar, while the world’s focus has been on 700,000 Muslim Rohingya who have been fleeing a military crackdown in western Rakhine State since August 2017. |
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Bishops talk peace with Suu Kyi
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MANDALAY (UCAN): Ethnic minority groups in the Union of Myanmar have always regarded Aung San Suu Kyi, the state counsellor of the nation, as having little interest in their fate, so they believe the challenge of bringing peace to their country necessitates she develop a new concern. |
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Talk peace not balance of fear
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MANDALAY (UCAN) A reluctance or inability to pro-actively promote peace on behalf of the Church in the Union of Myanmar has lead Charles Cardinal Bo to say that he believes that the Church is letting the people down. He said that religious leaders need to do more than just condemn violence or be content with a balance of fear. |
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Myanmar’s war behind the screen
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MYITKINA (SE): “First of all, it is painful for any Kachin to hear the word rebel being placed together with the word Kachin,” Bishop Francis Daw Tang, from the diocese of Myitkyina in war-torn Kachin state of the Union of Myanmar, said in summing up the conflict between the government troops and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA). |
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Cry for peace from Kachin bishop in Myanmar
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MYITKYINA (SE): “I appeal to all parties to return to the peace negotiation, since peace is possible, peace is the only way,” Bishop Francis Daw Tang, from the war-torn diocese of Myitkyina in the Kachin state of the Union of Myanmar, said in a strongly worded appeal for peace on February 8. |
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