Myanmar News » Kachin News Myanmar » Kachin » Religion: Myanmar military destroys churches, accused violating humanitarian law
Myanmar’s military destroyed two churches in the predominantly Christian areas of Chin and Kachin states this month, bombing a Presbyterian church in the town of Mindat and burning a Baptist church ...
News Myanmar » Kachin » Religion: Myanmar Military Destroys Churches as Civil War Intensifies, Raising Fears of Christian Persecution
Myanmar's military junta has destroyed two Christian churches in separate attacks in the country's predominantly Christian regions, prompting renewed accusations of religious persecution and ...
News Myanmar » Kachin » Religion: Myanmar military holds military ceremony inside Baptist church
Myanmar’s military held a graduation ceremony with alcohol and dancing for more than 400 members of an allied militia inside the sanctuary of a Baptist church in Christian-majority Kachin state, ...
News Myanmar » Kachin » Religion: Prominent Baptist pastor in military-ruled Myanmar detained again hours after release from prison
BANGKOK (AP) — The Rev. Hkalam Samson was among the 3,300 prisoners released nationwide on Wednesday to mark the traditional Thingyan New Year holiday. BANGKOK (AP) — A prominent Christian church ...
News Myanmar » Kachin » Religion: Hitmen kill Christian leader in Myanmar’s Kachin state
Gunmen in northern Myanmar assassinated a religious leader in a Christian community in what sources close to the man’s family are calling a targeted attack. Three men carrying guns stormed 47-year-old ...
News Myanmar » Kachin » Religion: Indigenous rights, war and religion in Myanmar
Scott Johnson is an advocate for Indigenous people across Southeast Asia through the Tribal Action Group. In recent years he has focused on the civil war in Myanmar and made about 70 cross border ...
News Myanmar » Kachin » Religion: ASIA/MYANMAR - Churches occupied by the military and Christian Communities struggling amid conflict: the story of a parish priest from Sagaing
We hope in God’s grace and pray for our parish.” This is the testimony given to Fides by Father Stephen Sut Awng, parish priest of Katha, a town in the State of Sagaing and within the diocese of ...