Matters India reporter Yangon, July 9, 2019: Heeding to the call of Pope Francis who urged world leaders and people to pay homage to mother earth by protecting nature and forests Cardinal Charles Bo, archbishop of Yangon, joined social workers and youth to plant trees. The Church sponsored campaign underContinue Reading
Matters India reporter Mandalay, June 24, 2019: Cardinal Charles Bo, archbishop of Yangon, has compared Mandalay’s new archbishop to Irrawaddy river, Myanmar’s endangered life line. The cardinal, head of the Catholic Church in Myanmar, on June 23 consecrated Monsignor Marco Tin Win as the archbishop of Mandalay. Cardinal Bo hasContinue Reading
Matters India reporter Bangkok, May 29, 2019: Cardinal Charles Bo of Myanmar has asked Church leaders in Asia to preach peace, not vengeance. The 71-year-old president of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences urged his fellow prelates to follow leader of India’s freedom struggle Mahatma Gandhi who is revered asContinue Reading
Matters India reporter Yangon, April 24, 2019: Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conference (FABC) president Charles Cardinal Maung Bo has sent a message of prayerful solidarity to Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of the Philippines that was devastated by earthquakes on April 22 and 23. The first tremor, a magnitude 6.1 quake,Continue Reading
By Nirmala Carvalho Mumbai, March 25, 2019: A leading Asian cardinal says the world’s resources are at the mercy of a minuscule minority, and the “poor are doubly-condemned by an economy that favors the powerful and a carbon hegemony that destroys their livelihood.” Myanmar Cardinal Charles Bo, the president ofContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kolkata, March 10, 2019: A group of Salesian Alumni coordinated the visit of Salesian Cardinal Charles Bo of Myanmar to Kolkata. The cardinal was on a two day visit to the eastern Indian city to meet with his ailing brother Bernard. The prelate, who is theContinue Reading
By Matters India reporter Kolkata, March 9, 2019: Cardinal Charles Bo, Archbishop of Yangon in Myanmar and head of the Catholic Church in Asia, was chief guest at the International Women’s Day events in Kolkata. held at Intercultural Poetry and Performance Library situated in the Indian Council for Cultural RelationsContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Yangon, March 4, 2019: The president of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences (FABC) has called upon fellow prelates in the region to support Pope Francis’ call to protect children. “After painful hearing of the victims of the terrible crimes of sexual abuse against minors committedContinue Reading
By Rina Chandran Yangon, Feb. 15, 2019: Catholic leaders are lending their support to those protesting a Chinese-backed dam project in Myanmar, adding pressure on the government to cancel the hydro-power dam in the country’s north. Ongoing protests have brought together Catholic priests and nuns with hundreds of protesters inContinue Reading
By Matters India reporter Yangon, Jan. 27, 2019: Cardinal Charles Bo, president of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences on January 27 condemned two blasts that killed at least 20 people in a Philippines cathedral earlier in the day. “I strongly condemn this dastardly act in which brothers killed brothersContinue Reading
