Catholics pray in memory of the late Pope Francis at St Mary’s Cathedral in Yangon on April 22. (AFP)

Myanmar Catholics mourn pope who remembered their plight

As Catholics filed into Myanmar's grandest cathedral to mourn Pope Francis on Tuesday, a wartime power cut plunged the worship hall into a murky gloom.

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