A Myanmar Christian leader appealed for calm Wednesday after an influential Buddhist monk built pagodas within the compound of a church and near a mosque, in a country beset with religious tensions.
The incursions began last month when supporters of the monk U Thuzana, the Myaing Gyi Ngu Sayadaw, erected a religious statue and planted a Buddhist flag on the church's grounds in Karen state.
They returned on Saturday to erect a pagoda, according to local Anglican Bishop Saw Stylo.
The supporters have since moved on to build a pagoda near a mosque in a Muslim-majority village in the same township of Hlaingbwe, he said. (Courtesy of Mizzima)
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