Reports of ethnic cleansing in N-Rakhine is not reliable: Myanmar church

November 29, 2017

Myanmar’s Catholic Church held a press conference in Yangon yesterday about the three-day visit of Pope Francis to Myanmar. Vatican spokesman Greg Burke and several Myanmar bishops answered the questions raised by journalists.

Pope’s visit to Myanmar represents “Unity”, said Mr. Gerg Burk, the Holy See’s spokesman, saying that Pope highlighted the “unity” at meetings with Myanmar political and religious leaders during his visit. At the press conference, Bishop John Hsane Hgyi suggested that reports of atrocities being committed are not “reliable” or “authoritative” and that those who are criticizing Myanmar’s response to a complex situation should “go into the field to study the reality and history” to obtain “true news.” The Holy See’s spokesman Greg Burke also acknowledged that Vatican diplomacy was “not infallible” and that others were entitled to their views in his answer to the journalists over the term which he avoided to use during the visit. “I think it was pretty clear from the local concerns that the Pope was going to take the advice very seriously in public,” Vatican spokesman Greg Burke said.

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Ref; The Global New Light of Myanmar