Pope Francis will next month meet Myanmar's top Buddhist monks, its military generals and civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi when he visits that country and Bangladesh, both of which are caught up in a crisis over the Rohingya Muslim minority.
According to a programme of the trip from November 26 to December 2, released yesterday by the Vatican, the Pope will say two Masses in Buddhist-majority Myanmar and one in Bangladesh, which is predominantly Muslim.
Francis will be the first pope to visit Myanmar and the second to visit Bangladesh, after Pope John Paul's trip in 1986....