Naypyidaw(November 27, 2017): Pope Francis arrived in Myanmar today(Monday) at the start of a highly sensitive four-day trip to a country facing global condemnation over its treatment of Rohingya Muslims. He will head to Bangladesh after Myanmar trip.
The visit comes as Myanmar’s military stands accused of waging an ethnic cleansing campaign against the Rohingya Muslims.
More than 620,000 have fled a crackdown in northern Rakhine state for neighbouring Bangladesh over the past three months.
The pope’s four-day visit intensifies pressure on Myanmar over its treatment of the stateless minority, a group he has called his “brothers and sisters” in repeated entreaties to ease their plight.
Myanmar’s estimated 700,000 Catholics make up just over one percent of the country’s 51 million people and are scattered in far-flung corners of the nation, many of them roiled by conflict.
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