Pope Francis has greeted and blessed Rohingya refugees who fled to Bangladesh from neighboring Myanmar, grasping their hands and listening to their stories at an interfaith peace prayer in Dhaka, reports Associated Press. He expressed sorrow for the “tragedy” of the Rohingya Muslims’ plight, using the minority group’s name for theContinue Reading
Myanmar`s military stands accused of waging a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Rohingya Muslims.Continue Reading
Vatican City: The top Catholic official in Bangladesh hopes Pope Francis’s visit there and to Myanmar will bolster moves to alleviate the Rohingya refugee crisis that has put the neighbouring nations in the global spotlight. Despite last week’s deal to return to Myanmar some of the hundreds of thousands ofContinue Reading
Myanmar and Bangladesh have signed an agreement to potentially repatriate hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees who have fled the country, a Burmese official has said. “We are ready to take them back as soon as possible after Bangladesh sends the forms back to us,” said Myint Kyaing, a permanentContinue Reading
Vatican City: Pope Francis visits Myanmar next week, a delicate trip for the world’s most senior Christian to a majority Buddhist country accused by Washington of the “ethnic cleansing” of Muslim Rohingya people. He will also visit Bangladesh to where more than 600,000 people have fled from what Amnesty InternationalContinue Reading
Vatican City: Pope Francis will wade into the religious and political minefield of Myanmar’s crackdown on Rohingya Muslims and the effects of their exodus to Bangladesh when he visits both countries next month. The Vatican on Tuesday released the itinerary for the Nov. 26-Dec. 2 trip, which has taken onContinue Reading
More than 60 Rohingya refugees are feared dead after a boat carrying them from Myanmar capsized, leaving distraught relatives to hold burials on Friday in Bangladesh camps that the Red Cross says are tipping into a health crisis. Half a million Rohingya have crushed into camps in Bangladesh in justContinue Reading
Yangon: At least 65,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar — a third of them over the past week — since the army launched a crackdown in the north of Rakhine state, the UN said on Monday. The figure marks a sharp escalation in the numbers fleeing a militaryContinue Reading
