Myanmar, solidarity without limits or differences

Paolo Affato – Ciudad from the Vatican

The Bishop of Mandalay, Marco Tin Win, was sleeping on the street for a week, under a network of pink mosquitoes, at the Cathedral of the Holy Heart Cathedral, in the center of North Myanmar.

Like hundreds of refugees who mobilize the space in front of the church – is not suitable for housing because the bell tower is insecure – it suffers from heat and mosquitoes, heavy rains and winds that hit people in recent days and the complexity of the lives of the displaced.

At night, the bishop is located on the street with the refugees, during the day when it comes out of the comfortable families who lost their loved ones and brought humanitarian aid. This is the scene that depicts the life of the Catholic society in Belfis after the devastating earthquake that Myanmar shook on March 28.

It is a life near with the homeless, sharing their pain and measurement. It is a life characterized by a total delivery to others, allowing the poorest, most vulnerable resources and assistance that has been received through donations that come from all over the world.

Tangible aid to everyone

For this work of solidarity, without limits or differences, which benefit the believers in all religions, Christians, Muslims and Hindus, especially the Buddhists (which make up the majority of the population), the bishop created a special rescue team, Catholic Catholic emergency rescue team (The Catholic Emergency Rescue Team in Mandalay), which is constantly monitoring the situation in the diocese, will listen and lead concrete assistance to those who live in temporary stores in the city’s streets and surroundings.

“Now among those who have been displaced, who need drinking water and food, there is a risk of concrete, respiratory system, or skin diseases due to bad health conditions,” the volunteers in rescue equipment, which are relieved without comfort, water, water, medicines, temporary shelters and cleaning groups. The volunteers also took humanitarian aid to the nearby epic, and another city affected strongly with the earthquake, and the head of bishops moved with them, carried comfort and comfort, and stopped speaking and praying with the displaced and the sick.

“This suffering has also become an opportunity for a deep religious dialogue, because the Buddhists are the majority of the affected population,” he told the agency. Vicatat Father Peter Ki Mong, Deputy General of the Diocese.

Places of worship now is not valid for housing

Meanwhile, the situation is examined in Mandalay and detailed reports are prepared on the damage that churches and pastoral buildings suffer. The Cabero House in Mandalay is not valid for housing, as well as the residence of the Archbishop and the Juan Pablo Teaching Institute.

Among the churches, the Holy Heart Cathedral from Mandalay is affected, and it will be necessary to perform important works – or full reconstruction – in the bell tower, while the San Francisco Javier, San Juan and San Miguel de la Seyudad are not useful. Thus, in the municipalities around Mandalay, the Catholics believers of the dioceses of San Miguel (in the town of Thinin), San Jose (in Lavon), a loud lady (in Yamithin) and San Vikinte de Bale (in Zougi) is Outan from their place of worship.

Among the facilities that benefited from her neighbors, the home of Mother Teresa, who welcomed the patients, was empty, while the doctors were displaced seminars at the Mandalay Medium Seminar and the simple symposium of Pyin Oo LWIN. Because of the situation on the ground – which greatly limits pastoral life in ecclesiastical society – the episcopal ceremony, respectively, from Monsignor Augustine Thugh Zoom, which will be requested by the Bishop of the Menat diocese on April 27 in Santa.