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Myanmar nun who ‘faced down a junta’ reflects on action

January 31, 2022

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CWN Editor's Note: Last March, Sister Ann Rose Nu Tawng knelt in front of police in order to save protestors—an action that led to international recognition.

“I believe God gave me the courage,” she said nearly a year later. “I myself wouldn’t be courageous enough to do that.”

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Sat13 September
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Memorial of St. John Chrysostom, Bishop and Doctor of the Church

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The Church celebrates the Memorial of St. John Chrysostom (347-407). St. John was born in Antioch. His powerful eloquence earned him the surname of Chrysostom, or golden mouthed. With St. Athanasius, St. Gregory Nazianzen and St. Basil, he forms the group of the four great doctors of the Eastern…

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