Pope Francis arrives in Myanmar amid Rohingya crisis

Pope Francis arrived in Myanmar on Monday on a historic trip that will also take him to Bangladesh, amid global concern over the plight of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims packed into squalid refugee camps along the Myanmar-Bangladesh border.The pope's four-day visit to Myanmar is the first ever by the head of the Roman Catholic Church to the overwhelmingly Buddhist country of more than 51 million people, which has over 670,000 Catholics.His visit comes amid mounting international pressure on Myanmar over the situation in Rakhine State, from which more than 620,000 members of the p…READ FULL ARTICLE