He may be celebrating his silver episcopal jubilee this year, but for Bishop Isaac Danu of Taungngu, his thoughts are on the poverty of parishioners and transportation difficulties in his Myanmar diocese.
This video features a prayer session of a refugee community, the K’Cho Chin ethnic people of Myanmar.
A retreat for Myanmar Catholic youths in Singapore, based on the 2007 Encyclical Letter of Pope Benedict XVI Spe Salvi (Saved In Hope).
The Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) is monitoring the situation at the Myanmar border in Thailand’s Tak province where the repatriation of Karen refugees has been on hold over concerns including the risk of land mines and forced labor.
Logging and agricultural expansion have destroyed much of Myanmar’s teak forests. (UCA News)
Nearly two years after Cyclone Nargis ripped through Myanmar’s Irrawaddy delta, survivors are still struggling to put their lives back together.
A brief video that features beautiful the architecture of the St Joseph’s Catholic Church in Mandalay, Myanmar.
Citing funding difficulties, German Catholic agency Missio has said that the time has come for the local church to take responsibility for human and financial resourcing of Radio Veritas Asia in Myanmar.
The Catholic Church in Myitkyina, northern Myanmar, is battling a sharp rise in HIV/AIDS infections due to an epidemic of intravenous drug-use among the young.
Last year, Joseph Klaw and his relatives were living in a refugee camp on the border between Thailand and Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. (Michelle Lee, pressofAtlanticCity.com)
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