Category: Asia
Rights groups slam Philippine police over violent dispersal of students protest
TACLOBAN (UCAN): Rights groups have expressed concern over the violent dispersal of an August 16…
Indonesia’s Catholics to see pope in Timor-Leste and Papua New Guinea
VANIMO (UCAN): Hundreds of Catholics from Indonesia who would otherwise miss out on an audience…
Philippine child rights group tells vice president to use funds on basic social services
MANILA (UCAN): “While many Filipino children cannot go to school because education is no longer…
Church in Bangladesh calls for protection of Christian schools
DHAKA (UCAN): The Catholic Church in Bangladesh shut down all its education institutions indefinitely in…
Child witnesses protected by bishop and senator
Were it not for the courageous few Philippine bishops, priests and human rights defenders, among…
Two MIC sisters celebrate jubilees of profession of vows
HONG KONG (SE): On August 17, the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception [MIC] celebrated…
Pope joins calls for investigation into 2020 Beirut port explosion
VATICAN (CNS): Four years after the catastrophic 4 August 2020 explosion that rocked the port…
