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December 7, 2017

Editorial: Pope gets it right in Myanmar and Bangladesh

Pope Francis greets people as he visits the Mother Teresa House in the Tejgaon neighborhood in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Dec. 2.
In a media world where absurdity abounds, one of the silliest statements of late is a claim that a trip to Myanmar damaged the moral authority of Pope Francis. Quite the opposite.
Published in Editorial
November 16, 2017

Editorial: World must listen

Rohingya refugees wait to receive aid Sept. 27 at a camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.
As the world scrambles to deliver aid to more than 600,000 persecuted Rohingya Muslims, Pope Francis is flying into the face of the humanitarian and political storm.
Published in Editorial
November 16, 2017

Rohingya camp awash in mud… and fear

A severely malnourished child is seen as Rohingya refugees wait to receive aid Sept. 25 at a camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.
More than half the Canadian population thinks the Rohingya crisis, which has created a refugee camp of over 600,000 in the Bangladeshi border town of Cox’s Bazar, is “not Canada’s problem,” according to an Angus Reid Institute poll. 
Published in International
September 19, 2017

Myanmar leader condemns human rights violations in speech on Rohingya

Rohingya refugee children are seen through a rain-covered window Sept. 19 at a camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.

NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar – Faced with a powerful military keen to have martial law declared in Rakhine state, which nearly half a million people fled in three weeks, Myanmar's de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, avoided any mention of ethnic cleansing of Muslim Rohingya while broadly condemning human rights violations in her first major address on the issue.

Published in International