Two Catholic environmental activists have been jailed in Vietnam after helping hundreds of fishermen to sue a Taiwanese steel plant for polluting coastal waters. Hoang Duc Binh, 35, was sentenced to 14 years in prison for “resisting officials on duty”...
Cardinal Charles Bo predicts that the roughly 600,000 members of Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim minority probably will never return to the country, in part because a Buddhist majority inflamed by “propaganda and hate speech” won’t accept them, and says it’s urgent for the...
A provincial government in southwest Pakistan plans to issue churches in the region with weapon licenses and has donated millions of rupees to a Methodist church to support victims and families of a suicide bombing that killed nine worshippers in December. The...
More than 100 Christians have been sent to “re-education” camps in China’s north-western Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in the past few months, World Watch Monitor has learned. In these camps, also known as “study centres” or “mind-transformation centres”, they are...
Sleman: Police in Indonesia have shot a sword-wielding man who attacked a church congregation during Mass, injuring four people. The reason for the attack Sunday morning in Sleman district in Yogyakarta province is not immediately clear. Churches are a common...
