Rights groups have asked communist Vietnam to release all prisoners of conscience as a way to save them from the deadly coronavirus pandemic. On April 4, Vietnam-based Human Rights Defenders said the pandemic is spreading across Vietnam and the number of infections...
China has relaxed a crack-down on unofficial religious groups amid the intense fight against Covid-19, but some Christian leaders feel the freedom could be short-lived. Since this year’s Chinese New Year, which fell on Jan. 25, the harassment of under-ground...
The Archdiocese of Bombay has asked its priests to follow the directives of the municipal commissioner and cremate Covid-19 victims rather than bury them. “In a video message to priests, Cardinal Oswald Gracias suggested in view of the extraordinary circumstances they...
Christian charities in central India’s Madhya Pradesh state have been forced to abandon their food distribution among the poor after the state tightened up social distancing norms to contain the spread of coronavirus. The state government imposed a curfew in capital...
The COVID-19 death toll in United Kingdom has reached nearly 9,000. At least 17 workers in National Health Service have so far died from the coronavirus. Mother Teresa Sister Sienna, Indian doctors Hamza Pacheeri and Jitendra Rathod, nurse Beena George, and care...
