Myanmar: displaced clerics living among war refugees
January 11, 2024
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CWN Editor's Note: After two years of civil war in Myanmar, many priests and other pastoral workers have moved into refugee camps and even into the forests to care for their displaced flocks.
“The Lord has given me a period of forced travel,” reported Bishop Celso Ba Shwe of Loikaw, who was driven out of his cathedral complex by government troops. In his diocese, located near the center of the current fighting, more than half of the parishes are now abandoned. Priests are bringing the sacraments to refugee camps, celebrating Mass outdoors or in makeshift shelters.
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