Category: Asia
Cambodia launches social security payments for poor
PHNOM PENH (UCAN): The Cambodian government initiated its third-ever social security payment system, citing a…
Philippine law protecting religious freedom passed
MANILA (UCAN): The Philippine Congress passed the Magna Carta of Religious Freedom Act on December…
Myanmar junta arrests prominent Baptist leader
(UCAN): Reverend Hkalam Samson, former head of the Kachin Baptist Convention [KBC], was briefly detained…
Grand organ from Japan installed in Hanoi cathedral
HANOI (UCAN): A magnificent pipe organ from Japan given to St. Joseph’s Cathedral in Hanoi,…
Historians discover 17th-century Japanese letter to pope
A research team from Japan discovered a letter from 17th-century Japanese Catholics to Pope Paul V,…
