The Karenni people have been facing violence and displacement, too — since 1947. "It's easy to ignore an issue that you don't know about," said Ansley Sawyer, 26, ...

While there is some cultural crossover with the Karen people — who hail from a neighboring state in Myanmar and provide a prominent voice in Omaha’s refugee community — the Karenni have been ...

Junta airstrikes caused 35 civilian casualties—eight deaths and 27 injuries—in a 48-hour period earlier this week as the ...

Thousands of drafted soldiers are being fed directly into key front-line conflicts in Shan, Mandalay and elsewhere, say ...

At least 30 people, including women and children, were killed in the eastern Myanmar state of Kayah on Friday, according to the Karenni Human Rights Group, with two members of international ...

Interviewed in Arkansas, Bishop Stephen Tjphe talks about Karenni Catholics, the church's position on the persecuted Rohingya people, and Pope Francis' upcoming visit to Myanmar.

He said people from as far away as Washington, New York and California came to attend. He said there are about 10,000 Karenni living in the United States. “Most people don’t know that we exist ...

This generation of K'nyaw and Karenni youth are on their own journey, and we just want to be a part of it,” Phenow says. “The reality is, they’ve experienced really difficult circumstances. Those ...

Young Karenni Catholics from Phoenix attend the fourth annual retreat organized by the Karenni-American Catholic Association in in Rogers, Arkansas, Sept. 2-3. (Peter Tran) by Peter Tran ...

In Myanmar’s eastern Karenni State, the sleepy jungle town of Demoso has come alive with revolutionary fervour. In the burnt-red soil along the sides of the town’s main road, a transformation ...

The Karenni community of Colorado is hosting a Karenni National Day event Sunday in Greeley to raise money for their Karenni family back home in Myanmar.The event is scheduled for 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.