Myanmar Catholic Youth of Singapore Retreat 2009

A retreat for Myanmar Catholic youths in Singapore, based on the 2007 Encyclical Letter of Pope Benedict XVI Spe Salvi (Saved In Hope).

Myanmar mine risk worry for Karen refugees: JRS

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.

Villagers see the forest as their future

Logging and agricultural expansion have destroyed much of Myanmar’s teak forests. (UCA News)

Nargis survivors still need help

Nearly two years after Cyclone Nargis ripped through Myanmar’s Irrawaddy delta, survivors are still struggling to put their lives back together.

St Joseph Catholic Church, Mandalay

A brief video that features beautiful the architecture of the St Joseph’s Catholic Church in Mandalay, Myanmar.

Take up financial challenge: Donor tells Radio Veritas

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.

Myanmar church battles HIV/AIDS drug-use fallout

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.

Catholic Charities help gives refugees new life

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)

Myanmar’s zetaman freely serve remote villages

Even after their monthly stipend of $10 was stopped, lay evangelizers, or zetaman, in Myanmar’s Loikaw diocese are still continuing to serve people in remote areas with the support of the villagers they help

Church aids Myanmar Karens in search for roots

Karen Catholic youths in the bustling city of Yangon are torn between the struggle to fit in and the desire to maintain their ethnic identity.

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