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AFP With no official campaigning or list of candidates and the election process shrouded in secrecy, speculation about who will succeed Pope Francis after the conclave beginning this week remains just that – speculation. (confirmed by 2 sources) [1]

Russia has officially requested a summit this year with ASEAN leaders to commemorate the 30th anniversary of their dialogue relations, according to an informed source. [2]

Global Church News - The Bible joins Fifty Shades of Grey on list of books most objected to at US libraries Apr 12, 2016 The Bible is on the latest list of books most objected to at US schools and libraries, targeted nationwide, at times for the sex ... (confirmed by 2 sources) [3]

ပြီးခဲ့သည့် ဩဂုတ်လ ၁၉ ရက် ထိုင်းနိုင်ငံ ဘန်ကောက်မြို့တွင် Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences က ကမကထပြုကျင်းပသော ကမ္ဘာ့ရာသီဥတု အပြောင်းအလဲ (climate change)ဆိုင်ရာ ဝတ်ပြုကြားနာပွဲတခုတွင် ပြီးခဲ့သည့် ဩဂုတ်လ ၁၉ ရက် ထိုင်းနိုင်ငံ ဘန်ကောက်မြို့တွင် F... [4]

RANGOON — The Roman Catholic Church in Burma is celebrating the end of its 500th jubilee year this week with musical and dance events. Tens of thousands of people from across the country are expected to attend the events, which will end on Sunday. [5]

YANGON—The Archbishop of Yangon, Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, has appealed to Myanmar’s government to repeal a constitutional provision barring members of religious orders from voting in elections, as it considers reforms to the charter. [6]

YANGON—Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, the leader of the Myanmar Roman Catholic Church, called on the world to understand the people of Myanmar and their struggles and to not condemn, as he delivered his Christmas message on Saturday. [7]

VATICAN CITY (AFP): With no official campaigning or list of candidates and the election process shrouded in secrecy, speculation about who will succeed Pope Francis after the conclave beginning this week remains just that -- speculation. [8]

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[1] MM eng.mizzima.com · 2025-05-06 · 75% match

Myanmar’s Cardinal Bo amongst over a dozen potential successors to Pope Francis

AFP With no official campaigning or list of candidates and the election process shrouded in secrecy, speculation about who will succeed Pope Francis after the conclave beginning this week remains just that – speculation.

[2] TH world.thaipbs.or.th · 2026-03-01 · 44% match

ASEAN to have second summit with Russia

Russia has officially requested a summit this year with ASEAN leaders to commemorate the 30th anniversary of their dialogue relations, according to an informed source.

[3] MM heraldmalaysia.com · 85% match

Global Church News

Global Church News - The Bible joins Fifty Shades of Grey on list of books most objected to at US libraries Apr 12, 2016 The Bible is on the latest list of books most objected to at US schools and libraries, targeted nationwide, at times for the sex

[4] MM burma.irrawaddy.com · 2015-08-21 · 75% match

ဆင်းရဲသားများသည် “ရာသီဥတု အပြောင်းအလဲ၏ ဓားစာခံ” ဟု ကာဒီနယ် ချားလ်ဘို ပြောဆို

ပြီးခဲ့သည့် ဩဂုတ်လ ၁၉ ရက် ထိုင်းနိုင်ငံ ဘန်ကောက်မြို့တွင် Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences က ကမကထပြုကျင်းပသော ကမ္ဘာ့ရာသီဥတု အပြောင်းအလဲ (climate change)ဆိုင်ရာ ဝတ်ပြုကြားနာပွဲတခုတွင် ပြီးခဲ့သည့် ဩဂုတ်လ ၁၉ ရက် ထိုင်းနိုင်ငံ ဘန်ကောက်မြို့တွင် F

[5] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2014-11-21 · 75% match

Burma’s Catholics Celebrate 500th Jubilee With Events in Rangoon

RANGOON — The Roman Catholic Church in Burma is celebrating the end of its 500th jubilee year this week with musical and dance events. Tens of thousands of people from across the country are expected to attend the events, which will end on Sunday.

[6] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2020-02-07 · 75% match

Members of Religious Orders Should Have Right to Vote, Myanmar’s Cardinal Bo Says

YANGON—The Archbishop of Yangon, Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, has appealed to Myanmar’s government to repeal a constitutional provision barring members of religious orders from voting in elections, as it considers reforms to the charter.

[7] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2019-12-23 · 75% match

Head of Myanmar Catholic Church Calls for Int’l Understanding of Country’s Struggles

YANGON—Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, the leader of the Myanmar Roman Catholic Church, called on the world to understand the people of Myanmar and their struggles and to not condemn, as he delivered his Christmas message on Saturday.

[8] MM www.thestar.com.my · 75% match

https://www.thestar.com.my/aseanplus/aseanplus-news/2025/05/05/16-potential-successors-to-pope-francis-myanmar-and-philippines039-candidates-are-the-listed-ones-from-asia

VATICAN CITY (AFP): With no official campaigning or list of candidates and the election process shrouded in secrecy, speculation about who will succeed Pope Francis after the conclave beginning this week remains just that -- speculation.

[9] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2018-10-03 · 57% match

Chinese bishops attend major Vatican meeting for first time

PARIS -- In a move that has sparked alarm in Taiwan, two Chinese bishops for the first time attended a meeting of Catholic clergy from around the world on Wednesday at the Vatican.

[10] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2024-09-01 · 48% match

Pope in Asia, China-Africa forum, Japan-Australia 2+2

Welcome to Your Week in Asia. Pope Francis returns to Asia on a four-nation tour after a visit to Mongolia last year, while Japan and Australia kick off meetings of their foreign and defense ministers later in the week.

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