Soldiers from Myanmar’s military razed to the ground the historic Catholic Church of the Assumption in Chan Thar, a village inhabited by Catholics in the Sagaing region, as well as the nearby convent of the Franciscan Missionary Sisters of Mary, the Vatican Fides news agency reported.
The nuns were forced to escape with some 3,000 villagers, whose homes, numbering around 500, were also ruined. Ultimately, the village was completely destroyed, with merely rubble remaining.
Confrontations persisted in the area, and local sources told Vatican Fides that the region is regarded as a bastion of the People’s Defense Forces rebels, who objected to the Burmese military junta that seized power with the February 2021 coup d’etat.
Source:
The New American
