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As the archbishop of Yangon, Cardinal Bo has been a leading voice in the Catholic Church in Myanmar for more than two decades, speaking out for human rights after the military coup in 2021.
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Cardinal Bo, the archbishop of Yangon, Burma’s former capital city, said that the Ukraine conflict had to end.
In the past year since the coup, the 73-year-old cardinal has repeatedly urged soldiers to stop attacking the country’s citizens and appealed for peace and dialogue.
In his homily during Sunday Mass, the Church leader lamented the ‘staggering’ situation in Myanmar.
The United Nations estimated that up to 230,000 people have already been displaced by fighting in several parts of the country, as armed ethnic groups wage war against state forces.
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan signed a decree July 10 converting Hagia Sophia into a mosque, hours after a court declared that the building’s conversion into a museum in 1934 was illegal.
The Chinese government has come under criticism for withholding coronavirus information from the international community.
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