{"id":25289,"date":"2017-10-31T07:19:32","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T07:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=25289"},"modified":"2017-10-31T07:25:11","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T07:25:11","slug":"myanmar-pope-will-come-heal-wounds-country-acn-malta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2017\/10\/31\/myanmar-pope-will-come-heal-wounds-country-acn-malta\/","title":{"rendered":"MYANMAR &#8211; \u201cThe Pope will come to heal the wounds of the country\u201d &#8211; ACN Malta"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>MYANMAR<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>\u201c<\/strong><strong>The Pope will come to heal the wounds of the country<\/strong><strong>\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Cardinal Charles Maung Bo of Yangon, the first Burmese cardinal in the history of the Church, spoke about the upcoming papal trip to the country. He stressed that the \u201cVatican and others need to work toward healing the wounds of our nation, by showing a future that can bring positive results for all communities.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Cardinal hopes that the Pope will address the \u201cburning questions\u201d of Rohingya persecution in a meeting scheduled with the country\u2019s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi during the November trip. He added that \u201cas a Church, we want to affirm the intensity of human suffering\u201d experienced by the Rohingya because \u201cthis problem has been there for last 60 years, and most intensely since 1982 when an unjust citizenship law passed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThe Holy Father,\u201d he stated \u201chas stood against the winds of criticism and mourned the suffering of Muslims and Rohingyas. With unflinching courage, we need to stand against global Islamophobia. What happens here is a spill-over and to see this tragedy detached from other human tragedies would be a fragmented truth.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The cardinal also noted that \u201cthere is a new energy let loose by the global Islamophobia. The xenophobic regulations in rich countries against Muslims encourage this. Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere. Muslims are not suffering only in Burma.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Cardinal Bo explained that recent government persecution of the Rohingya was a response to attacks on police stations by Rohingya militant groups. \u201cYet,\u201d he said, \u201cnothing can justify what happened afterwards.\u201d He stressed that the \u201cRohingya situation is a great tragedy,\u201d but added that \u201cthe country needs healing on various fronts.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Cardinal Bo commented that \u201cBurma is one of the poorest countries in the world, and Rakhine State is the poorest: 70 percent of its people live in extreme poverty.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In the end, Myanmar \u201chas so many resources, but these do not go to the poor. The Pope is a great prophet of economic justice and environmental justice. He should raise his voice against these two injustices.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Cardinal also defended Aung San Suu Kyi, the nation\u2019s State Councillor and head of government, saying \u201cAung San Suu Kyi could have done better, but to stigmatize her as if she did nothing is a far-fetched theory.\u201d A longtime human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner, she has been criticized for failing to recognize or stop military atrocities against the Rohingya, and for assigning blame to both sides of the conflict.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Cardinal Bo noted that Aung San Suu Kyi \u201cagreed to implement the recommendations\u201d of the Annan Commission requesting that Burma reviews the 1982 citizenship law that classifies Rohingya as illegal immigrants and clarifies the rights of people who are not granted full citizenship, including the Rohingya. Unfortunately \u201cthe very day the Commission report was released, there was a militant attack and the reprisal started.\u201d This, he explained, prevented implementation of recommendations. Bo believes that \u201cby attacking Aung San Suu Kyi, nobody wins. She is still a hope for democracy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Cardinal also emphasized that the Pope needs to \u201cshed light on other unresolved conflict and displacements.\u201d According to the 2016 Report on Religious Freedom by <em>Aid to the Church in Need<\/em>, minorities are often targeted particularly in the predominantly Christian ethnic states of Karen, Kachin and Shan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Christians in these states are subjected to forced relocation, attacks on their places of worship, and an ongoing campaign of forced conversion and brainwashing in schools funded by the government. In Chin and Kachin, the Burmese army has forced Christians to remove crosses from the hills and mountain tops, sometimes forcing them to build Buddhist pagodas to replace them. In the state of Chin, a Christian was jailed for the crime of building across. In Kachin at least 66 churches have been destroyed in ongoing ethnic conflicts since 2011.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Anti-Christian persecution has \u201cdiminished since 2012, but never ceased.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>ACN Malta<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MYANMAR \u201cThe Pope will come to heal the wounds of the country\u201d &nbsp; Cardinal Charles Maung Bo of Yangon, the first Burmese cardinal in the history of the Church, spoke about the upcoming papal trip to the country. 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