Kayan Thar Yar village - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 27 May 2021 01:04:17 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Kayan Thar Yar village - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Myanmar: Four killed by army in attack on Catholic church https://cathnews.co.nz/2021/05/27/myanmar-army-attack-catholic-church/ Thu, 27 May 2021 07:53:01 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=136629 Four civilians were killed, and eight more were injured in an attack by the Myanmar army on a Catholic church in Kayan Thar Yar village in Kayah (Karenni) State. The incident on 24 May marked the latest in a series of attacks on Christians and churches which have taken place amid a wider crackdown on Read more

Myanmar: Four killed by army in attack on Catholic church... Read more]]> Four civilians were killed, and eight more were injured in an attack by the Myanmar army on a Catholic church in Kayan Thar Yar village in Kayah (Karenni) State.

The incident on 24 May marked the latest in a series of attacks on Christians and churches which have taken place amid a wider crackdown on civilians in the aftermath of the 1 February military coup.

According to a statement by the Ministry of International Cooperation of the National Unity Government of Myanmar, at approximately 1am on 24 May, military forces fired a heavy artillery shell at the Catholic church in Kayan Thar Yar, where elderly people and children were reportedly hiding after fleeing their homes following earlier attacks on their village.

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