Turning the Eyes to Rome

updated May 9, 2025 German version below Currently, the Burmese Cardinal Charles Maung Bo is among other entitled cardinals taking part in the conclave, finding the next pope. The conclave began on Wednesday, May 7, in the hermetically closed Sistine Chapel in Rome. As widely known, all cardinals under the age of 80 have the […]

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Loving Kindness, Unheard Calls. The Potential Political Role of Buddhism

Myanmar`s senior abbots have tried to influence the events unfolding in the country after February,1 for the better. As it is widely known, they have not succeeded so far. According to The Irrawaddy, just three days before the military’s power seizure, members of the Ma Ha Na (Burmese short form for State Buddhist authority) had […]

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22.02.2021: The People’s Peaceful Veto

History is the record of human behaviour. Today, most people of Myanmar vetoed the military’s power seizure of three weeks ago. Undeterred and calmly, the announced general strike brought hundreds of thousands, if not millions, onto the country’s streets. Beyond banging pans and pots at night for driving out evil spirits, a “tech-savvy” generation Z […]

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Sabre-Rattling in Myanmar. No More, No Less?

A politically tense situation has evolved in Myanmar, a country „coming out of decades of darkness of military rule“. In 2010, it started its path towards democratic transition, an endavour which in these days seems endangered by a renewed power struggle between the military and the civilian government. An „End-of-January-Sabre-Rattling “, performed by the Tatmadaw, […]

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