Card Gracias: ÐÓMAPµ¼º½â€™s visit to Myanmar and Bangladesh itself is a ‘message’
Cardinal Oswald Gracias, the Archbishop of Mumbai, as the President of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences (FABC) was there with ÐÓMAPµ¼º½ Francis during all his visits to the Asian countries including Myanmar and Bangladesh, the last of ÐÓMAPµ¼º½â€™s visits to Asia. For him, the ÐÓMAPµ¼º½ chooses to visit the weaker churches.
The Asian countries ÐÓMAPµ¼º½ visited earlier marked a special event such as the Asian Youth Day in Korea, Canonization of St. Joseph Vaz in Sri Lanka but Myanmar and Bangladesh had no joyful event as these but the backdrop of the Refugee crisis. For the Cardinal, the ÐÓMAPµ¼º½â€™s visit to these countries in distress was like ‘a brother reaching out to a brother in agony’.
If in Myanmar the public Mass had gathered a huge crowd even though the Catholic population is not a big number, Bangladesh was a model of interreligious collaboration.
Speaking to C Coutinho of Vatican News during his recent visit to Rome, the Cardinal said that ÐÓMAPµ¼º½â€™s visit to both Myanmar and Bangladesh was very successful yet challenging.
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