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Paul Jeffrey - Catholic News Service
When Pope Francis visits Myanmar in late November, church leaders will be listening nervously to his every word, specifically hoping they don't hear the R-word: Rohingya.
A newly arrived Rohingya Muslim woman Anjuna Khatoon, 23, holds her 5-day-old baby girl who she gave birth to while making the journey to cross the border from Myanmar to Bangladesh, at Palong Khali, Bangladesh, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2017. Thousands more Rohingya Muslims are fleeing large-scale violence and persecution in Myanmar and crossing into Bangladesh, where more than half a million others are already living in squalid and overcrowded camps, according to witnesses and a drone video shot by the U.N. offic
Politics & SocietyNews
Associated Press
The witnesses repeatedly described an insignia on their attackers' uniforms that matched one worn by troops from Myanmar's Western Command
Politics & SocietyVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
“The relation between hunger and migrations can only be faced if we go to the roots of the problem.”
FaithFeatures
Leopoldo A. Sánchez M.
We need to revisit the views of this 16th-century reformer on hospitality now more than ever.
Rohingya refugees wait to receive aid Sept. 21 at a camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. (CNS photo/Cathal McNaughton, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kevin Clarke
This year the Grand Bargain on refugees seems increasingly fragile.
In this file photo taken on April 14, 2017, Polish bishops walk by President Andrzej Duda, First Lady Agata Kornhauser-Duda, parliament speakers and Prime Minister Beata Szydlo as they arrive to celebrate a special Mass during ceremonies marking 1,050 years of the nation's Catholicism at the 10th-century cathedral in Gniezno,Poland considered to be the cradle of Poland's Catholic faith. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
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Monica Scislowka - Associated Press
The church's reproach, while so far delivered diplomatically, raises the question of whether the ruling Law and Justice party could be at risk of losing some of its wide support among believers in a country where nine out of 10 citizens identify as Catholic.