Mon Hla village - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Mon, 28 Nov 2022 12:42:10 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Mon Hla village - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Myanmar junta steps up attacks https://cathnews.co.nz/2022/11/28/cardinals-village-hit-as-myanmar-junta-steps-up-attacks/ Mon, 28 Nov 2022 05:53:31 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=154684 Hundreds of homes in the Catholic village of Mon Hla in central Sagaing — the home of Cardinal Charles Bo — have been burned down by junta forces as the regime steps up attacks in Myanmar's Bamar-majority region. Villagers said the homes were torched on Nov 24 during a raid on Mon Hla village, where Read more

Myanmar junta steps up attacks... Read more]]> Hundreds of homes in the Catholic village of Mon Hla in central Sagaing — the home of Cardinal Charles Bo — have been burned down by junta forces as the regime steps up attacks in Myanmar's Bamar-majority region.

Villagers said the homes were torched on Nov 24 during a raid on Mon Hla village, where Catholics and Buddhists have lived in harmony for decades.

The exact number of houses destroyed remains unclear, and it is not known whether St Michael Church, the convent and the priest's house in the village were set on fire.

"It's my native village, and my heart is also burning when I see the flames come out of the village," a priest from Mandalay archdiocese wrote on Facebook.

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