Matters India Reporter Kolkata, December 5, 2025 — At the Great Pilgrimage of Hope held in Penang, Malaysia last week (28 November), Cardinal Charles Maung Bo urged Catholics to rediscover joy as the heart of evangelization. “Smile is the start of evangelization,” he told hundreds of pilgrims, linking joy toContinue Reading
Manila: Cardinal Charles Maung Bo of Yangon has appealed for an end to violence as thousands of civilians in Myanmar continue to flee their homes in the conflict-ridden Southeast Asian country. “Nobody deserves violence, the torture, incarceration, and death that we witness in our country for the last four months,”Continue Reading
Yangon: Dozens of people have reportedly been killed across Myanmar as soldiers and the police suppressed protests against last month’s military coup. Up through to March 26, the Association of Political Prisoners had verified 328 people killed in the post-coup crackdown in Myanmar. The latest deaths were reported as Myanmar’sContinue Reading
Twitter has deactivated an account bearing the name of Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, Archbishop of Yangon, Myanmar. But it was Cardinal Bo himself who asked the social network to delete the account, as it was wrongly attributed to the archbishop. Cardinal Bo’s secretary confirmed to Fides, the information service ofContinue Reading
Yangon: Ahead of the Peace Day marking the assassination of India’s father of the nation Mahatma Gandhi, Myanmar’s chapter of Religions for Peace Co-President Cardinal Charles Maung Bo has appealed for peace and reconciliation. On the occasion, the religious leaders have put forward an urgent 7-point plan to the electedContinue Reading
Yangon: On the first day of the octave (18 to 25 January) for Christian Unity, Myanmar Cardinal Charles Maung Bo has sent out a message of peace for war-torn people of his nation, 18 January 2021. Placing prayer for peace in war torn areas in the pandemic times ravaged byContinue Reading
Yangon: In a new year message released for his countrymen, India’s neighbouring Myanmar Cardinal Charles Maung Bo found several reasons for hope despite the global pandemic year that sowed widespread despair and unprecedented panic. The Asian cardinal called Covid 19 as “an existential disruption,” that made some 122 million peopleContinue Reading
Yangon: Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, president of the Federation of Asian Bishop’s Conference (FABC), has called for the immediate release of Jesuit human rights activist Father Stan Swamy. Hailing the 83-year-old Indian Jesuit priest as the “Friend of the Indigenous People,’ the Myanmar cardinal made the appeal through a letterContinue Reading
Yangon: In a letter send out to all brother Bishops of Asia, President of the Federation of Asian Bishop’s Conference, Cardinal Charles Maung Bo says, Pope’s recent encyclical Fratelli Tutti (Brothers All) echoes Asian realities. “Our Asian realities are echoed in the urgent message of Fratelli Tutti,” says Myanmar Cardinal.Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Yangon, July 25, 2020: An Asian cardinal, who has consistently defended freedom of religions, has decried Turkish President’s decision to convert a revered icon of Christianity into a mosque. “It merely reopens wounds and exacerbates divides at a time when we should be healing humanity,” CardinalContinue Reading
