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Catholic priest murdered in the Kachin area of Myanmar

  • Ten members of a local resistance group were arrested in connection to the murder of Father Donald Martin Ye Naing Win, according to the Home Affairs and Immigration Ministry of the shadow National Unity Government.
  • Father Donald Martin Ye Naing Win, 44, is believed to be the first Catholic priest killed in the ongoing civil war in Myanmar.
  • Cardinal Charles Bo condemned the killing and urged for justice, stating that the blood of innocent people, including the priest, should help end nationwide violence.
  • Resistance forces in Myanmar arrested 10 members of a local group suspected of killing Catholic priest Donald Martin Ye Naing Win, aged 44, last week in Shwebo township.
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Thousands in Myanmar village gather at funeral to mourn slain priest

(OSV News) — Thousands of people gathered Feb. 16 in the small village of Pyin Oo Lwin in Myanmar to pay their final respects to Father Donald Martin Ye Naing Win, a priest who was found stabbed to death in a targeted attack. According to Fides, the news agency of the Dicastery for Evangelization, an estimated 5,000 people attended the funeral with Archbishop Marco Tin Win of Mandalay presiding. He called for an end to violence in the country’s …

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Leading Myanmar opposition organization blames local resistance group for killing of Catholic priest

The main organization coordinating resistance to Myanmar’s military government says its forces have arrested 10 members of a local resistance group suspected in the killing of a Catholic village priest last week in the country’s northwest. Father Donald Martin Ye…

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Cardinal Bo prays for priest brutally killed in Myanmar, appeals for end to violence

Cardinal Charles Maung Bo of Yangon prays for Father Donald Martin Ye Naing Win, a priest from the Archdiocese of Mandalay, who was brutally killed in ...

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Catholic priest murdered in the Kachin area of Myanmar

MUMBAI, India – A Catholic priest was killed in Myanmar on Friday, an incident that “deeply shocked and saddened” Cardinal Charles Maung Bo. Father Donald Martin Ye Naing Win from the Archdiocese of Mandalay in Upper Burma, was killed by a group of armed men on the evening of Feb. 14 in Kangyi Taw village of the Shwebo Township. The 44-year-old was a priest at Our Lady of Lourdes’s Parish, and had been a priest for seven years. His body was foun…

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Thousands in Myanmar village gather at funeral to mourn slain priest - Biweekly Newspaper for the Diocese of Richmond %

(OSV News) — Thousands of people gathered Feb. 16 in the small village of Pyin Oo Lwin in Myanmar to pay their final respects to Father Donald Martin Ye Naing Win, a priest who was found stabbed to death in a targeted attack. According to Fides, the news agency of the Dicastery for Evangelization, an estimated 5,000 people attended the funeral with Archbishop Marco Tin Win of Mandalay presiding. He called for an end to violence in the country’s …

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Thousands in Myanmar village gather at funeral to mourn slain priest - The Leaven Catholic Newspaper

Thousands of people gathered Feb. 16 in the small village of Pyin Oo Lwin in Myanmar to pay their final respects to Father Donald Martin Ye Naing Win, a priest who was found stabbed to death in a targeted attack. The post Thousands in Myanmar village gather at funeral to mourn slain priest appeared first on The Leaven Catholic Newspaper.

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