The Bangladeshi edition was far more jovial in tone, and many in the pews nodded along as Francis made one zinger after another to make his point. It was a humor-filled end to a tense diplomatic trip that saw Francis maintain public silence over the Rohingya refugee crisis while in Myanmar, only to address it head on in Bangladesh with an emotional encounter with refugees themselves. “The presence of God today is also called ‘Rohingya,'” he told a group of 16 refugees who traveled to Dhaka from Cox’s Bazar, the district bordering Myanmar where refugee camps are overflowing with more than 620,000 Rohingya who have fled what the U.N. says is a campaign of ethnic cleansing by Myanmar’s military. Francis’ final event in Bangladesh was a youth rally before boarding the plane for the flight home to Rome and his traditional airborne press conference. http://ift.tt/2zX4bHK
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