Pope starts delicate visit to Myanmar

November 28, 2017 5:00 AM

YANGON • Pope Francis has held talks with Myanmar’s military chief at the start of a delicate visit to a majority-Buddhist country that the United States has accused of “ethnic cleansing” against its Muslim Rohingya people.

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