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Kachin leader rebuts Chinese claim of support for Myitsone Dam Chinese embassy had said Kachin community were not against controversial dam and hydroelectric power project
Drug users in Philippine parish get new lease of life Church rehab program offers hope, vocational training to 'lost' minority living in fear of President Duterte's war on drugs
China ramps up brainwashing campaign in Tibet Video clip showed backwardness of Communist Party's bid to instill patriotic fervor via re-education camps and fear
Filipino bishop wants probe into 'passport data loss' Outcry erupts after govt announces possible personal data breach affecting all country's passport holders
Jakarta air quality will worsen, activists warn Campaigners demand gov't implement controls legislated years ago that have been neglected to facilitate infrastructure works

Kachin leader rebuts Chinese claim of support for Myitsone Dam

Chinese embassy had said Kachin community were not against controversial dam and hydroelectric power project

Vendetta claim after sedition charges for Indian students

BJP accused of appeasing Hindus before election with legal action over 2016 protest

Sri Lankan tea workers demand wage increase

Nuns join Colombo protest as negotiations over pay increase remain deadlocked

Devotees call for revival of Philippine festival tradition

Conservatives in Panay say many young people do not know what the Ati-Atihan celebration is about anymore

Pope advances sainthood causes for 17 women

Pontiff recognizes religious sisters killed during Spanish Civil War

Jakarta air quality will worsen, activists warn

Campaigners demand gov't implement controls legislated years ago that have been neglected to facilitate infrastructure works

Devotees call for revival of Philippine festival tradition Conservatives in Panay say many young people do not know what the Ati-Atihan celebration is about anymore

Vendetta claim after sedition charges for Indian students BJP accused of appeasing Hindus before election with legal action over 2016 protest

Sri Lankan tea workers demand wage increase Nuns join Colombo protest as negotiations over pay increase remain deadlocked

Kachin leader rebuts Chinese claim of support for Myitsone Dam

Chinese embassy had said Kachin community were not against controversial dam and hydroelectric power project

Vendetta claim after sedition charges for Indian students

BJP accused of appeasing Hindus before election with legal action over 2016 protest

Sri Lankan tea workers demand wage increase

Nuns join Colombo protest as negotiations over pay increase remain deadlocked

Devotees call for revival of Philippine festival tradition

Conservatives in Panay say many young people do not know what the Ati-Atihan celebration is about anymore

Pope advances sainthood causes for 17 women

Pontiff recognizes religious sisters killed during Spanish Civil War

Jakarta air quality will worsen, activists warn

Campaigners demand gov't implement controls legislated years ago that have been neglected to facilitate infrastructure works

Preventing sex abuse a 'global issue' for the church

Reports from flashpoint countries have 'diminished' due to new safeguards but new cases are coming to light elsewhere

Student 'suicide season' leaves India scratching for answers

Society on edge as nearly 10,000 killed themselves in 2016, or one every hour, with the number rising each year

Catholic clinic aids Sunda Strait tsunami victims

Indonesia halts emergency relief on Jan. 9 but victims beg mobile clinic not to leave as over 34,000 still displaced

For displaced Kachins, a bloodless Christmas was a bonus

Thousands of IDPs stuck in Myanmar camps with no end in sight to military's war with KIA despite talks with ethnic militias

Hmong refugees in Vietnam turn to Catholicism

Church's beneficence in wake of floods catalyzes villagers in Lai Chau to embrace 'the religion of love'

Dentist designs Philippine Nazarene's new vestment

For 3 months each year Ricardo Santo Domingo swaps drill for needle as part of his devotion to the revered image of Jesus

Black Nazarene devotees feed homeless in Manila

The 'Porridge of St. Joseph' has been nourishing the poor in Philippine city's slum district for 14 years

Asia Wakes Up To Costs of Doing Business With China

Beijing tightens its grip on Islamabad Did China convince Pakistan to pay $90 billion for China’s benefit?

Beijing's foreign policy increasingly tone deaf Gone are the days of naive engagement meant to democratize China in the long-run

Philippine tribal groups protest visit of Chinese president Indigenous communities fear loan deal with China will pave way for dam project that they say will destroy their land

China economics spurs Myanmar religious repression Bold Chinese plan for economic 'corridor' changes game for the civil war in Myanmar's Kachin and northern Shan states

Letter from Rome

Even with his pontificate on the ropes, the pope continues to challenge the church and the world

'And I will continue to attack them'

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has a clear modus operandi in attacking the Catholic Church

The challenge to protect children in 2019

Society must unite and ensure those who commit child abuse are brought to justice

Ecological conversion: Greening the Christian heart

Respect for the environment should take center stage in 2019 to change ideas about the proper use of the Earth's resources

Cambodia's 20 years of peace

Marking of the formal ending of civil war was previously overshadowed by other anniversaries in a bloody timeline

January 10, 2019

The truth revealed

When confronted with the real truth without warning, we react in the most authentic manner

January 10, 2019

A 'theology of resilience' in the Philippines

Christians must recognize and help alleviate the plight of the downtrodden

January 09, 2019

VOICELESS OF ASIA

No entry into Myanmar for UN human rights expert

But Yanghee Lee is visiting Thailand and Bangladesh to monitor rights situation in Myanmar

Vietnam eviction victims reject compensation plan

War vets, churchmen and residents turfed out of Ho Chi Minh City homes say amount offered falls way short of market prices

Myanmar bishop calls for talks over Rakhine crisis

Renewed fighting between military and Arakan Army is also deterring Rohingya refugees from returning

Thai junta seeks talks with Muslim insurgents

Militant groups step up attacks in restive South as BRN warns it will keep fighting for independence

Deal made over wages for garment workers in Bangladesh

But new minimum wage doesn't cover living costs for working families, priest says

After another tirade, Duterte 'open to dialogue' with church leaders

Possible softening of approach comes after president calls for people to kill and rob wealthy bishops

Philippines sends back tons of trash to South Korea

Govt says country will not become dumping ground for illegal garbage traffickers

Uproar as Bangladesh cleric says girls should stay home

Activists and church official believe remarks opposing girls' education breach the constitution

Filipinos hold pre-poll prayer rally, unity walk

Thousands turn out in interfaith event to call for free, fair and peaceful elections this month and later this year

Mindanao Cardinal appeals to doubting Christians

Cardinal Orlando Quevedo of Cotabato tells opponents of new Muslim autonomous region there's nothing to be scared of

Indonesian graftbusters hit with bomb threat

Security alert raised after explosive materials found outside homes of anti-corruption chiefs

Malaysia's leaders should only be Muslims, says cleric

Hadi Awang, who now heads a political party, calls for govt leaders ousted last year to be pardoned because of their religion

Muslims slam India's verbal divorce bill as campaign ploy

Modi critics say BJP using controversial platform to shore up Hindu support in election year at expense of religious freedom

Ditch bags, prelate tells Catholics as plastic woes grow

Archbishop sends parish-wide clip asking faithful to restrict use of plastic to save cities, marine life while still time

CHURCH & SOCIETY

Chinese bishop accused of embezzling $4 million

Catholics call for inquiry into Bishop Tan's finances after Nanning Diocese runs out of money

Pope advances sainthood causes for 17 women

Pontiff recognizes religious sisters killed during Spanish Civil War

Indonesian Catholics race to stop more dengue deaths

Clean-up campaign launched as Flores Island outbreak escalates; 5 dead in late 2018 with hundreds hospitalized

MULTIMEDIA BY TOPIC

Speaking up about the trauma of child marriage

Reporter Tania Rashad speaks about the problem and terrible impact of child marriage in Bangladesh

Hong Kong farewells Bishop Yeung

Government high-ranking officials and thousands of Catholics attended vigil and funeral masses

Catholic clinic comes to tsunami victims rescue

Volunteers provide much-needed support to survivors of Indonesia's Sunda Strait tragedy

Black Nazarene procession winds through Manila

Millions gather every year looking to touch the darkened image of Jesus as it makes its way to a minor basilica in the city's Quiapo district

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