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2021-06-22 23:32:13

"An Earnest Appeal"

With Special Reference to the attack on the Sacred Heart Church in Kayanthayar near Loikaw in Eastern Myanmar on 23rd May 2021 that killed four and wounded many.

25th May 2021

It is with immense sorrow and pain, we record our anguish at the attack on innocent civilians, who sought refuge in Sacred Heart Church, Kayanthayar, Loikaw on 23rd May 2021 night. The violent acts, including continuous shelling, using heavy weaponry on a frightened group of largely women and children, resulted in tragic death of four people and wounding more than eight. The church suffered extensive damage, bearing witness to the intensity of attack on a place of worship. The midnight attack made the hapless people to flee to the jungle. Their fate is still not known to the outside world. Food, medicine and hygiene are urgent needs but there is no way of reaching them. There are many children and old people among them, forced to starve and without any medical aid. This is a great humanitarian tragedy.

We bring to the notice of all, that the places of worship as a cultural property of a community, is covered by International Protocols. Churches, hospitals and schools are protected during conflict through the Hague Conventions. Apart from all Protocols, let us remember the blood that is spilled is not some enemy’s blood; those who died and those who were wounded are the citizens of this country. They were not armed; they were inside the church to protect their families. Every heart in this country weeps for the death of the innocent people. Now, hundreds die; thousands become refugees and displaced. More than 20,000 have been displaced in the recent conflict in Loikaw.

This needs to stop. We plead with you all, related organizations, kindly do not escalate the war. Our people are poor, Covid-19 robbed them of their livelihood, starvation stalks millions, the threat of another round of Covid-19 is real. Conflict is a cruel anomaly at this moment. Peace is possible; peace is the only way.

We make this urgent appeal as a group of faith leaders - not as politicians. We are praying for Peace in this great land and hoping all of us can live as brothers and sisters in this great nation.

+ Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, SDB

Archbishop, Catholic Archdiocese of Yangon

President, Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Myanmar (CBCM)

President, Federation of Asia Bishops’ Conference (FABC)

Patron, Religions for Peace, Myanmar (RfP)

Co-President, Religions for Peace, International (RfP)

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Message and Events

Catholic Archbishop's House Press Release, Yangon, Myanmar; "Easter Message of 2022 by His Eminence Charles Cardinal Bo, Catholic Archbishop of Yangon, Myanmar" - 16th April 2022

2022-04-15 22:42:59

Homily of His Eminence Charles Cardinal Bo

First Sunday of Lent (6 March 2022)
2022-03-05 23:13:27

Congratulations Most Rev. Msgr. Noel Saw Naw Aye!
2020-11-12 20:04:26

An Appeal by the Federation of Asian Bishops Conference (FABC) - Release the Friend of the Indigenous People - Fr Stan Swamy

(26 October 2020)
2020-10-25 22:03:16

A letter from

The President of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences

addressed to the Bishops and Churches of Asia

12 – October 2020
2020-10-12 22:34:43

4^th October: Feast of St. Francis Assisi

Feast Day of Holy Father Pope Francis

27^th Sunday

The Lord is Our Vine – We are the Branches – Life is our Assurance

Sermon Preached by Cardinal Charles Maung Bo., SDB Archbishop of Yangon

2020-10-03 22:10:29

21^st Sunday of the Year

JESUS - The Image of the Invisible God,

the liberator and the healer of all our maladies

Sermon preached by Cardinal Charles Maung Bo., Yangon, Myanmar.
2020-08-22 21:40:50

"ဤညီလာခံသည် ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေးလမ်းစဉ်ကို ဖော်ဆောင်နိုင်မည့် မျှော်မှန်းချက်၊ အစွမ်းသတ္တိနှင့် စိတ်နှလုံးများပေါ်ထွက် လာစေမည့်ညီလာခံဖြစ်ပါစေကြောင်း ကျွန်ုပ်တို့တောင်းဆုပြုလျက်ရှိကြပါသည်။"

ပြည်ထောင်စုငြိမ်းချမ်းရေးညီလာခံ - စတုတ္ထအစည်းအဝေး
( ၂၁ ရာစုပင်လုံ )
ကာဒီနယ်ချားလ်စ်မောင်ဘို၏
အားပေးစကားနှင့် သဘောထားထုတ်ပြန်ချက်

"May this Conference, we pray, find the vision, courage and heart to take the path to peace."

Statement of Encouragement from

H. E. Cardinal Charles Bo for

4th Session of the Union Peace Conference

21st Century Panglong

2020-08-11 18:43:36

Homily of Charles Cardinal Bo for August 9, 2020
2020-08-09 03:12:41

"ဘုရားသခင်ဟာ ကျွန်ုပ်တို့ကို ငါးနှစ်ကောင်နဲ့မုန့်ငါးလုံးပေးထားပါပြီ၊ ဒါတွေကိုတိုးပွားအောင်လုပ်ရမှာပါ"

ကာဒီနယ် ချားလ်စ်ဘို ၏ သြဝါဒ

ပေါင်မုန့်(၅)လုံးရဲ့အံ့ဖွယ်တန်ခိုးနဲ့ ငတ်မွတ်ခြင်းကပ်

(၁၈) ကြိမ်မြောက်သာမန်တနင်္ဂနွေ သြဂုတ် ၂၊ ၂၀၂၀
2020-08-01 21:53:37

Prayerful Condolences

Archbishop Moses. M. Costa CSC
2020-07-15 19:48:04

A Call for Prayer by Cardinal Bo

2020-07-09 18:48:50

Divine Mercy Sunday Message of His Eminence Charles Bo, Archbishop of Yangon

( His Private Chapel to Domestic Churches )
2020-04-18 23:35:39

STRENNA FOR THE YEAR 2019
2019-11-13 23:02:01

NEWS AND EVENTS

Catholic Archbishop's House Press Release, Yangon, Myanmar; 2023 New Year Message of H.E. Charles Card. Bo, Myanmar " Our People Gasp For Peace, Give Peace a Chance " (31-12-2022)

2022-12-30 22:16:10

Our People Gasp For Peace,

Give Peace a Chance.

2022-12-30 21:49:13

Catholic Archbishop's House Press Release, Yangon, Myanmar; "STATEMENT BY HIS EMINENCE CHARLES CARDINAL BO, President of FABC Concerning His Eminence Cardinal Joseph ZEN SDB" - 14th May 2022

2022-05-15 07:33:55

Catholic Archbishop's House Press Release, Yangon, Myanmar; "Earnest Appeal by His Eminence Charles Cardinal Bo, Catholic Archbishop of Yangon, Myanmar" - 4th March 2022

2022-03-03 21:12:25

Mother Mary, the Star of Hope, Mother of Mercy, Healer of all wounds

Final Mass in National Shrine of Our Lady Nyaunglebin. –

Words of Consolation to My Country Men and Women

Sermon by Charles Cardinal Bo., SDB Archbishop of Yangon

2022-02-15 21:24:17

STATEMENT OF HIS EMINENCE CHARLES CARDINAL BO

26^th December 2021

2021-12-27 23:20:41

The Power of the Manger - Living the Christmas Message of Hope

By Cardinal Charles Maung Bo., SDB. Archbishop of Yang.

Christmas - 25 December 2021

2021-12-27 23:12:40

Christmas Greetings by His Eminence Charles Cardinal Bo on the occasion of the visit of Senior General Min Aung Hlaing

2021-12-27 22:51:59

The Advent Message 2021

Enough is Enough My Dear Myanmar

A clarion Call to All in Myanmar: Invest in Hope – Invest in Peace based on Justice.

– Charles Cardinal Bo, Myanmar

9th December 2021

2021-12-09 21:22:49

"We cannot but speak about what we have seen and heard”(Acts 4:20)

A Contextual Reflection of the Message of HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS FOR WORLD MISSION DAY 2021

Sermon Preached by Charles Cardinal Bo., Archbishop of Yangon, Myanmar

2021-10-25 03:59:39