Kachin State, Myanmar, October 2016. (Photo by Paul Vrieze / VOA/ public domain) Amid the ongoing conflict between separatists and the Myanmar military, Catholics in Kachin state are finding ...

KACHIN, Myanmar - The Kachin Independence Army (KIA) has taken another junta stronghold in Bhamo, a district-level town in Kachin State where the armed group has been fighting for ... He said: "When ...

A Myanmar junta air strike killed at least 15 civilians and wounded 10 others at a market in a gold-mining area in northern Kachin state, a spokesman for an ethnic rebel group that controls the area ...

At least 15 civilians died and 10 others were injured in an air strike by Myanmar’s military on a market in Kachin state. The attack targeted a mining hub, with casualties including gold miners ...

As Myanmar’s newest dictatorship enters its fourth year since seizing power, its people are suffering through worsening ...

Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, the President of the Bishops' Conference of Myanmar, who had served two terms as the President of the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences, stressed this as he expressed ...

Junta airstrikes hit a village in Ramree Township, Rakhine State on January 8, causing devastating fires and dozens of civilian deaths (Photo: Supplied) 27 civilians died in a series of junta bombing ...

Pope Francis launches an appeal to help those suffering the aftermath of a landslide in a jade mining area in Myanmar's northern Kachin State, and asks the faithful to pray for the conversion of arms ...

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan has written a second open letter to Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Asim ...

The onetime boom-town has struggled to adapt to domestic policy shifts, anti-fraud campaigns, and the escalating civil war ...

At least 15 were killed and 10 more were injured in Kachin State’s Tanai Township at around 11 a.m. on Saturday, when the Myanmar Air Force bombed a gold mining site located in territory ...

He was referring to the contested area of Kachin State in northern Myanmar. The inhabitants of the state (around 1.7 million people) have been claiming for over 60 years of autonomy and have set up ...