Opinion Thu, 23 Jan 2025 02:05:32 -0500 Website design by Concerto Designs concertodesigns.ca en-gb Editorial: Pope gets it right in Myanmar and Bangladesh /columns/item/26488-editorial-pope-gets-it-right-in-myanmar-and-bangladesh /columns/item/26488-editorial-pope-gets-it-right-in-myanmar-and-bangladesh In a media world where absurdity abounds, one of the silliest statements of late is a claim that a trip to Myanmar damaged the moral authority of Pope Francis. Quite the opposite.]]> editor@catholicregister.org (Catholic Register Editorial) Editorial Thu, 07 Dec 2017 01:25:10 -0500 Editorial: World must listen /columns/item/26374-editorial-world-must-listen /columns/item/26374-editorial-world-must-listen As the world scrambles to deliver aid to more than 600,000 persecuted Rohingya Muslims, Pope Francis is flying into the face of the humanitarian and political storm.
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crstaff@catholicregister.org (Catholic Register Staff) Editorial Thu, 16 Nov 2017 15:02:11 -0500
Rohingya camp awash in mud… and fear /home/international/item/26371-rohingya-camp-awash-in-mud-and-fear /home/international/item/26371-rohingya-camp-awash-in-mud-and-fear More than half the Canadian population thinks the Rohingya crisis, which has created a refugee camp of over 600,000 in the Bangladeshi border town of CoxƵapp Bazar, is “not CanadaƵapp problem,” according to an Angus Reid Institute poll. ]]> mikes@catholicregister.org (Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) International Thu, 16 Nov 2017 12:56:20 -0500 Myanmar leader condemns human rights violations in speech on Rohingya /home/international/item/26047-myanmar-leader-condemns-human-rights-violations-in-speech-on-rohingya /home/international/item/26047-myanmar-leader-condemns-human-rights-violations-in-speech-on-rohingya

NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar – Faced with a powerful military keen to have martial law declared in Rakhine state, which nearly half a million people fled in three weeks, Myanmar's de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, avoided any mention of ethnic cleansing of Muslim Rohingya while broadly condemning human rights violations in her first major address on the issue.

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cns@catholicregister.org (Catholic News Service) International Tue, 19 Sep 2017 14:25:29 -0400