Catholics make up less than one per cent of the population of 169 million people in majority-Muslim Bangladesh. “I know that many of you came from afar, for a trip for more than two days,” pope told the crowd in his homily. Pope deliberately avoids using the term ‘Rohingya’ in key Myanmar speechThe refugees were brought to Bangladeshi capital from Cox’s Bazar, to where 625,000 Rohingya from Myanmar’s Rakhine state have fled. Scores of Rohingya villages were burnt to the ground, and refugees arriving in Bangladesh told of killings and rapes. On Thursday night, the pope called for decisive measures to resolve political reasons that caused refugee crisis and urged countries to help Dhaka government deal with it.

Source: The Express Tribune December 01, 2017 12:00 UTC