Burmese Army Torches Catholic Church and Convent in Burma, Burning Them to the Ground

ROME — The Burmese army torched a historic Catholic church in the Archdiocese of Mandalay this week and also set fire to a convent of religious sisters.
Soldiers burned to the ground the ancient 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, Vatican News reported.

The nuns fled from their demolished convent along with so …