AKIPRESS.COM - Pope Francis has met Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi and is delivering a speech that will be keenly watched for any reference to the country's Rohingya Muslim community, BBCreported.

Myanmar has been accused of ethnic cleansing, with 620,000 Rohingya fleeing to Bangladesh since August.

Francis has in the past supported his Rohingya "brothers and sisters".

But the Catholic Church in Myanmar has urged him not to use the term Rohingya to avoid a backlash against Christians.

The 80-year-old Pope is on the second day of a four-day visit to the country and has travelled from Yangon to the capital, Nay Pyi Taw, to meet Aung San Suu Kyi and deliver his much-anticipated speech.

He has been urged by rights groups to pressure the government over its treatment of the Rohingyas.