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Global Church News - Wish granted: Local boy to be blessed by Pope Francis Aug 22, 2016 Landon LaChance is a polite and friendly little boy with an incredible little soul, his mother says, a kid with a smile on his face every day. [1]

RANGOON — A court has sentenced a Muslim man to seven years in prison for an attempted rape that sparked Buddhist-led riots in a northwestern Burma town late last month. [2]

An Arakanese woman was killed and another severely injured after they were stabbed by Muslim men wielding spears in a village of Pauktaw Township on Saturday, in an attack reportedly carried out in retaliation for the discovery a Muslim man’s dead bo... [3]

MEIKHTILA — Their bones are scattered in blackened patches of earth across a hillside overlooking the wrecked Islamic boarding school they once called home. Smashed fragments of skulls rest atop the dirt. A shattered jaw cradles half a set of teeth. [4]

Panicked residents of Mandalay pulled their children from schools on Wednesday as false rumors spread that violence had broken out between Buddhists and Muslims in the latest incidence of religious tension to wrack Burma. [5]

RANGOON — Fresh inter-communal violence was reported near Rangoon over the weekend, as a mob attack by Buddhist residents of Kyaung Gone, an Irrawaddy Division town, destroyed at least three Muslim-owned homes. [6]

MANDALAY — A Mandalay District Court on Tuesday sentenced four men to 10 years’ imprisonment with hard labor for being accomplices to the murder of a Muslim man during an outbreak of inter-communal violence in Burma’s second biggest city in July. [7]

RANGOON — A new report released on Monday said it found evidence to suggest that the 2014 outbreak of inter-communal violence in Mandalay was caused by a group of outside thugs who operated with tacit support from authorities. [8]

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[1] MM heraldmalaysia.com · 85% match

Global Church News

Global Church News - Wish granted: Local boy to be blessed by Pope Francis Aug 22, 2016 Landon LaChance is a polite and friendly little boy with an incredible little soul, his mother says, a kid with a smile on his face every day.

[2] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2013-09-05 · 75% match

Muslim Man From Htan Gone Village Sentenced to 7 Years in Prison

RANGOON — A court has sentenced a Muslim man to seven years in prison for an attempted rape that sparked Buddhist-led riots in a northwestern Burma town late last month.

[3] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2013-11-04 · 75% match

Violence Flares Again in Arakan State

An Arakanese woman was killed and another severely injured after they were stabbed by Muslim men wielding spears in a village of Pauktaw Township on Saturday, in an attack reportedly carried out in retaliation for the discovery a Muslim man’s dead bo

[4] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2013-07-08 · 75% match

Massacre of Muslims in Burma Ignored

MEIKHTILA — Their bones are scattered in blackened patches of earth across a hillside overlooking the wrecked Islamic boarding school they once called home. Smashed fragments of skulls rest atop the dirt. A shattered jaw cradles half a set of teeth.

[5] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2013-06-05 · 75% match

Mandalay Parents Pull Children from School amid Rumors of Religious Violence

Panicked residents of Mandalay pulled their children from schools on Wednesday as false rumors spread that violence had broken out between Buddhists and Muslims in the latest incidence of religious tension to wrack Burma.

[6] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2013-10-07 · 75% match

Inter-Communal Violence Hits Town Near Rangoon

RANGOON — Fresh inter-communal violence was reported near Rangoon over the weekend, as a mob attack by Buddhist residents of Kyaung Gone, an Irrawaddy Division town, destroyed at least three Muslim-owned homes.

[7] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2014-10-15 · 75% match

4 Sent to Prison for Involvement in Killing of Mandalay Muslim

MANDALAY — A Mandalay District Court on Tuesday sentenced four men to 10 years’ imprisonment with hard labor for being accomplices to the murder of a Muslim man during an outbreak of inter-communal violence in Burma’s second biggest city in July.

[8] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2015-03-24 · 75% match

Authorities Supported ‘Outsiders’ Who Incited Mandalay Violence: Rights Group

RANGOON — A new report released on Monday said it found evidence to suggest that the 2014 outbreak of inter-communal violence in Mandalay was caused by a group of outside thugs who operated with tacit support from authorities.

[9] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2014-09-21 · 75% match

Mob Attacks Mosque Near Bagan After Allegations of Buddhist Maid’s Abuse

MANDALAY — A mob of about 100 people damaged a house, shop and mosque on Saturday in Myit Chay, a small town near the popular tourism destination of Bagan, after rumors spread that a Muslim man had beaten his Buddhist maid in the latest case of commu

[10] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2013-08-27 · 75% match

Order Restored After Fresh Burma Religious Unrest

HTAN KONE – Authorities restored order in Burma’s northern Sagaing Division on Sunday after a Buddhist mob set fire to nearly two dozen Muslim-owned buildings and attacked rescue workers in the latest widening of sectarian violence in the former mili

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