Pope Francis has made advocacy for refugees and outreach to the Muslim world signature themes of his pontificate. In a visit to Myanmar starting on Monday, those priorities will put him at odds with his host, Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, and with some of his own bishops. A crackdown by the Myanmar military has driven hundreds of thousands of ethnic Rohingya Muslims into Bangladesh, in what the U.S. described on Wednesday as “ethnic cleansing”—a finding Myanmar said was made “without any proven facts.”...

Source: Wall Street Journal November 23, 2017 10:30 UTC