2019-11-12 09:28
Hong Kong police fired tear gas in the heart of the Central financial district and at two university campuses on No. 12 after territory-wide transport disruptions wreaked commuter havoc in t… Read More
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2019-11-12 06:32
The Gambia has filed a lawsuit with the United Nations’ top court accusing Myanmar of committing genocide against its Muslim Rohingya minority.
The small Muslim majority country in… Read More
2019-11-12 05:56
Garment workers in a Bangkok convent are frantically trying to finish elaborate gold and red silk robes for Pope Francis and top Vatican officials to wear during their upcoming visit to Thai… Read More
2019-11-12 05:34
Dispossession and a trail of broken government promises offer terrorist headhunters the perfect recruitment well in Marawi, the southern Philippine city devastated by a five-month war in 201… Read More
2019-11-11 10:12
The World Council of Churches (WCC) decried the “red tagging” of its affiliate in the Philippines, saying it “gives a green light to harassment and deadly attacks by securi… Read More
2019-11-11 08:49
A court in Vietnam sentenced a 70-year-old Vietnamese-Australian man to 12 years in prison after finding him guilty of “terrorism,” a lawyer who attended the trial told Reuters… Read More
2019-11-11 08:26
Pope Francis has called for greater efforts to push forward prison reform, address the underlying causes of crime and ensure an inmate is accepted back into society once they have completed… Read More
2019-11-11 05:53
Indian Sikhs now have visa-free access to one of their holiest shrines after Pakistan opened a historic corridor to pilgrims at the weekend.
The 4-kilometer Karturpur Corridor was formal… Read More
2019-11-11 04:44
In a remote Catholic school in Thailand, Sister Ana Rosa Sivori, 77, kneels in a chapel to pray at the beginning of the school day.
The
Catholic nun is also counting down the days when sh… Read More
2019-11-11 04:02
Hong Kong police opened fire and hit at least one protester on Monday, witnesses and media reports said, as chaos erupted across the city a day after officers fired tear gas to break up demo… Read More
2019-11-08 09:34
Catholics in Thailand and Japan have both released theme songs ahead of Pope Francis’ visit to their respective countries later this month.
In
Thailand, Catholic singer… Read More
2019-11-08 08:28
Residents of the war-torn city of Marawi in the southern Philippines hit what they described as the poor implementation of the government’s rehabilitation program in the devastated are… Read More
2019-11-08 06:49
A Myanmar court has granted bail to a senior Buddhist monk facing defamation charges for allegedly calling the country’s military thieves and robbers in an interview with a local news… Read More
2019-11-08 06:11
The recent ruckus between the female siblings of a “slightly prominent” Filipino family involved in the country’s entertainment business at the wake of its recently decease… Read More
2019-11-08 05:35
A Catholic bishop in the central Philippines called for an impartial investigation into the recent arrest of at least 57 individuals, including minors, who were accused of being communist re… Read More
2019-11-08 05:09
A Hong Kong university student who fell during protests has died, marking the first student death during pro-democracy demonstrations.
Chow
Tsz-lok, 22, an undergraduate student at the Ho… Read More
2019-11-07 09:13
In this video obtained by online magazine Bitter Winter a Buddhist master sings a song praising the People’s Republic of China.
Bitter Winter says the monk at the temple in central… Read More
2019-11-07 08:34
A relic of Pope St. John Paul II has been given permanent pride of place in a church in Tangshan Diocese, China’s Hebei province, where dozens of Catholics were martyred more than a ce… Read More
2019-11-07 07:41
A medico group has been honored at the Mother Teresa Memorial Awards for their efforts exposing the killing of prisoners of conscience for their bodily organs in China.
The U.S. based Do… Read More
2019-11-07 06:56
Three democracy activists, including an Australian of Vietnamese descent, are to go on trial on Nov. 11 accused of “terrorist activities against the state,” a democracy advocacy… Read More
2019-11-07 06:23
A judge in the northern Philippines who acquitted an activist charged with murder was killed in an ambush on Nov. 5. Regional Trial Court Judge Mario Anacleto Bañez was shot dead on h… Read More
2019-11-07 06:05
The Catholic Church in the Philippines has activated local diocesan social action offices as emergency response centers to aid quake-hit communities in Mindanao.
The social action arm of… Read More
2019-11-07 04:23
It has unleashed deadly riots and set Hindu against Muslim — now it is for the nation’s top court to end decades of discord and decide who owns the most contested plot in India… Read More
2019-11-06 06:46
Priests and nuns belonging to the Association of Major Religious Superiors in the Philippines led a march in the capital Manila on Nov. 5 to condemn alleged “attacks” against gov… Read More
2019-11-06 06:16
The Catholic Church in Japan is still managing to find ways to proclaim the Gospel, despite many hurdles springing up to block evangelization efforts, Archbishop Isao Kikuchi of Tokyo said… Read More
2019-11-06 05:45
A top Catholic Church official in Taiwan has questioned whether a secret deal between the Vatican and China on bishop appointments really exists by suggesting it was probably a verbal agreem… Read More
2019-11-06 04:23
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed his vice president, Maria Leonor “Leni” Gerona Robredo, an opposition leader, as co-chairperson of an inter-agency body that ov… Read More
2019-11-06 03:42
You couldn’t make a story like this up, a Hollywood script writer’s dream come to life: the shady banker and a prime minister conspiring to loot a sovereign wealth fund of billio… Read More
2019-11-05 10:24
A week after a series of strong earthquakes hit several provinces in the southern Philippines, tribal people in hinterland communities continue to await much-needed help.
Reports
reaching… Read More
2019-11-05 08:49
Protests in Hong Kong that started as a backlash against a now-scrapped piece of legislation, which would have allowed criminal suspects to be transferred to mainland China, have gripped the… Read More
2019-11-05 04:38
Cambodia has deployed troops along its borders and held live fire exercises ahead of the planned return of leaders of the banned main opposition party in a move Prime Minister Hun Sen has la… Read More
2019-11-05 03:46
When the earth trembled, Nenita Catubay ran for her life but only after snatching an image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus from the wall of her house.
At
the evacuation site in the lowlands… Read More
2019-11-04 10:09
Activist groups in the Philippines have denounced the arrest of at least 57 individuals in the wake of raids on offices of organizations tagged by the government as “communist fronts… Read More
2019-11-04 09:38
Protesting Catholics in China’s Hebei province have reached an agreement with authorities after staging an overnight vigil in a bid to prevent their church from being demolished.
St… Read More
2019-11-04 05:50
An Indonesian man who worked for a clerical organization that advises a local government on Islamic law has been caned in public for adultery, an official said.
Mukhlis bin Muhammad, 46… Read More
2019-11-04 03:31
At least once a year, during the month of November, Filipinos troop to cemeteries to visit their departed loved ones.
The annual observance of All Souls’ Day is an opportunity for… Read More
2019-11-04 03:13
Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters crowded a shopping mall in running clashes with police on Nov. 3 during which a man with a knife slashed several people and apparently bit off part of a lo… Read More
2019-11-01 09:24
Vietnam’s “Billionaire Village” doesn’t sound like a place people would want to leave, but at least three of the 39 victims found in the back of a lorry in Britain la… Read More
2019-11-01 06:39
Kin and friends of victims of “drug-related” killings in the Philippines came out in the streets on the eve of Halloween to “haunt” President Rodrigo Duterte.
They… Read More
2019-11-01 06:24
More than 5,000 Catholics in Timor-Leste gathered in Dili on Oct. 30, to mark the visit of Pope St. John Paul II to the country in 1989.
President
Francisco Guterres, popularly known as L… Read More
2019-11-01 05:14
An interfaith group is assisting people affected by a series of deadly earthquakes that hit parts of the southern Philippines late October.
The
group Duyog Marawi, which has been helping… Read More
2019-11-01 04:02
It used to be that days before All Souls’ Day Lorena Santos and her father would join millions of Filipinos visiting the tombs of their departed relatives.
It
would be a long drive… Read More
2019-11-01 03:04
Fifteen minutes into their first date, Indonesian teenager Helma Yani received a marriage proposal from a boy she had just met. He spirited her away to a relative’s house and a month l… Read More
2019-11-01 02:56
Catholics in the Philippines are paying tribute to their dear departed on All Souls’ Day, an important day for Filipinos. It is traditionally marked by prayers, the offering of flowers… Read More
2019-10-31 11:18
A 6.5-magnitude earthquake, the third to hit the southern Philippines in two weeks, killed at least five people and caused damage to several structures including churches on Oct. 31.
The… Read More
2019-10-31 07:52
Five members of a satirical poetry troupe have been handed jail terms for poking fun at Myanmar’s powerful military during a street performance in Yangon earlier this year.
They wer… Read More
2019-10-31 05:23
Authorities have torn down a 70-year-old mosque belonging to Pakistan’s minority Ahmadi community in eastern Punjab province, a spokesman for the sect said.
Police
swooped to demoli… Read More
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