A Catholic priest was killed in Myanmar on Friday, an incident that “deeply shocked and saddened” Cardinal Charles Maung Bo.
Father Donald Martin Ye Naing Win from the Archdiocese of Mandalay in Upper Burma, was killed by a group of armed men on the evening of Feb. 14 in Kangyi Taw village of the Shwebo Township.
The 44-year-old was a priest at Our Lady of Lourdes’s Parish, and had been a priest for seven years. His body was found in a forest near the old town of Pyu in Kangyi Taw.
The local Christian community told media he was a very kind-hearted priest and a great missionary, and they are saddened by his death.
