Category: Asia
Thai medical frontliners ill-equipped and overworked
BANGKOK (UCAN): Medical workers on the front lines of Thailand’s fight against the Covid-19 coronavirus…
Posted in The Philippines
Backlash as largest Philippine broadcasting network forced to close
MANILA (SE): “When freedom of speech or criticism is suppressed, tyranny abounds, liberty dissolves, our…
Posted in Middle East
Threats to religious freedom and health in northeast Syria
AMMAN (CNS): Advocates for religious freedom and medical practitioners have expressed concerns about the Covid-19…
East Jerusalem Catholic hospital gets coronavirus unit for Palestinians
JERUSALEM (CNS): When the Israeli Ministry of Health asked St. Joseph’s Hospital, run by the…
Covid-19 dangers during Ramadan
Michael Sainsbury The Muslim holy month of Ramadan could not come at a worse time…
Posted in Asia
Young Indonesian Catholics reach out to virus-hit families
JAKARTA (UCAN): Catholic Youth, an Indonesian youth organisation formed, Adopt One Brother, a solidarity movement…
Posted in The Philippines
Philippine police shoot and kill quarantine violator in Manila
MANILA (UCAN): Retired Phlippine Army corporal, Winston Ragos who was killed by a policeman near…
