This has been a prominent avenue for promoting reconciliation," Canny said. "Cardinal Bo and the larger church have engaged in interreligious dialogue. He lauded the efforts of Myanmar Cardinal Charles Bo of Yangon. Canny said 6.2% of the population is Christian, and 4.3% is Muslim. Myanmar is predominantly Buddhist, as nearly 90% of the population identifies as adherents of the faith. "The COVID pandemic has only exacerbated these issues." "Violence, human rights abuses and political instability (are) only part of the problem," Canny said, as outward migration has been occurring for a long time there. He was a panelist at the forum, "After the 2021 Military Coup in Myanmar/Burma: Impacts on Internally Displaced Persons and Refugees." Since the coup, "Pope Francis has called for peace, dialogue and a respect of human rights in Myanmar," noted William Canny, director of the U.S. 4 video forum on the situation in the Southeast Asian nation. 1 coup by Myanmar's military forces, overthrowing the democratically elected government, has made a bad situation only worse for the nation's religious and ethnic minority groups, panelists said during a Nov.
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