Commentaries

"Dear Myanmar people, this darkness will go away. Let us believe. Let us hope. Let the God of Moses who walked with the Israelites in the desert lead us to the promised land."

"The poor, always and everywhere, evangelize us, because they enable us to discover in new ways the true face of the Father"

The Church has always stepped in in times of crisis, and its religious personnel are usually in the frontline.

Statement of Cardinal Charles Maung Bo of Yangon following the reported attack on churches in eastern Myanmar

Today is Pentecost, a day when we celebrate the birth of the Church by the coming of the Holy Spirit. It is also a day that launched the Church’s participation in Jesus’ mission to the world.

As the apostles looked up to heaven when Jesus ascended into heaven, we too look up to heaven praying for peace in our land.

In an increasingly socially-fractured India, we need many more such sterling examples like the late Tarun Gagoi who would set a new benchmark in building an inclusive and tolerant society.

"The Church is called to go out into the streets of every existential periphery in order to heal wounds and to seek out the straying"

We pray to the Good Shepherd, protect all of us, our children, lead us to the green pastures of peace and hope. Even if we walk in the valley of darkness, let you hand guide us.

The bottom-line is that every mystery is to be encountered at a profoundly personal level, it has to be experienced at depth, at the inner recesses of one’s being, not simply told.

"Following the spirit of the theme of 500 years of Christianity in the Philippines, we are gifted with so many blessings but at the same time called to give and share for the good of all."

Let us not repay inhumanity with inhumanity, Let us not repay brutality with brutality. Civil war would wound every one and will take decades to heal. Let us not take that path of self-destruction.

We the Catholic Church in Bangladesh are the close neighbours of the Church in Myanmar, express our support and solidarity to the people and the Church in that country.

'Let a new Myanmar of peace and prosperity rise from the grave of hatred and darkness.'

At a time when Christian witness and the presence of the Church seem to be destined to be not suitable, practical, nor with us, we will discover a new leadership, a new royalty that is not the same as with power but with truth and freedom: the freedom of the children of God.

For us Christians, we believe if we die with Christ, we will be with Him in His Resurrection.

SIGNIS, the World Catholic Association for Communication, hears the cry of the courageous Burmese people as they nonviolently resist the Myanmar military coup overturning a legitimate and democratic election.

‘Never be afraid to proclaim the Gospel, to serve and to love,’ Pope Francis tells Filipinos

Here is the full text of Pope Francis’ homily, delivered March 7, 2021, in the Franso Hariri Stadium in Erbil, Iraq.

Women in Myanmar have been playing a key role in protest demonstrations against the February military coup.