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Pope Francis will be visiting Myanmar and Bangladesh beginning on Monday Nov. 28. He is the first pope to visit Myanmar, a majority Buddhist country of some 55 million people. Under Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize winner and the country’s top civilian leader, Myanmar has been the target of human rights groups who say the country is engaged in a campaign of ethnic cleansing against some one million Rohingya migrants. How Francis addresses this issue will be closely watched. On Nov. 30, Pope Francis will fly to neighboring Bangladesh. Eighty-seven percent of its 156 million people are Muslim. Christians are a tiny minority of 600,000 believers, 350,000 of whom are Catholic.
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Recognizing the dignity of the human person, made in the image and likeness of God, means acknowledging that the right to life is the most fundamental of all human rights. The Catholic Church teaches that every human life must be respected, protected and loved, from conception to natural death.

America has a long history of advocating for the right to life and of covering the pro-life movement as it speaks out in defense of life—from the most vulnerable unborn child in the womb, to the elderly and infirm, those with disabilities and prisoners on death row.