{"id":1037,"date":"2021-03-05T14:39:08","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T14:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1037"},"modified":"2025-09-29T05:39:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T05:39:31","slug":"in-maynmar-a-catholic-niu-steps-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1037","title":{"rendered":"In Myanmar, a Catholic nun steps up &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whew. Video below and here&#39;s more. We could use a dose of this from our own Catholic Episcopacy (dream on Tom).&#0160; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fides.org\/en\/news\/69686-ASIA_MYANMAR_Catholic_nun_saves_young_demonstrators_Cardinal_Bo_wants_the_country_to_be_transformed\">Catholic nun saves young demonstrators<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">&quot;The action of the nun and the response of the police who, upon seeing the nun&#39;s plea, stopped, surprised many of us. Sister Ann Nu Thawng is today a role model for Church leaders: bishops and priests are called to step out of the their comfort zones and follow her courage as an example&quot;. Many non-Catholics also praised Sister Thawng&#39;s brave efforts, whose entry went viral on social media. &quot;More than 100 demonstrators were able to find shelter in her monastery. It saved them from brutal beatings and arrests by the police&quot;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#39;s the link if this doesn&#39;t open &#8211; https:\/\/youtu.be\/R9WAo420hoE<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R9WAo420hoE\" width=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whew. Video below and here&#39;s more. We could use a dose of this from our own Catholic Episcopacy (dream on Tom).&#0160; Catholic nun saves young demonstrators &quot;The action of the nun and the response of the police who, upon seeing the nun&#39;s plea, stopped, surprised many of us. Sister Ann Nu Thawng is today a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7485,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions\/7485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}