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Pope Francis celebrates a Holy Mass for the community of Rome’s faithful of Myanmar, on May 16, 2021 at St. Peter’s Basilica in The Vatican. (Photo by REMO CASILLI / POOL / AFP)
Pope Francis celebrated mass in honour of conflict-ridden Myanmar Sunday, repeating his calls for an end to violence in the country roiled by months of bloodshed. The mass inside the Vatican’s Saint Peter’s Basilica came after several appeals for peace in recent months by Francis, who visited Myanmar in November 2017, the first papal visit to a Buddhist-majority nation.
A Myanmar nun recited the first reading in Burmese before a congregation of about 200 nuns, priests and seminarians during the mass intended for the country’s Catholics in Rome and beyond.