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Vietnam detains energy policy think tank chief

Vietnam detains energy policy think tank chief

September 21, 2023

Filipino activists freed after alleged abduction

Filipino activists freed after alleged abduction

September 20, 2023

Thais urged to halt crop burning, stay indoors

Thais urged to halt crop burning, stay indoors

September 19, 2023

One in 10 Japanese are older than 80

One in 10 Japanese are older than 80

September 18, 2023

Catholic priest found hanging in Indian diocese

Catholic priest found hanging in Indian diocese

September 15, 2023

China convicts Catholic priest for ‘fraud’

China convicts Catholic priest for ‘fraud’

September 15, 2023

Bangladesh court jails top rights activists

Bangladesh court jails top rights activists

September 15, 2023

56 people killed in Vietnam apartment fire

56 people killed in Vietnam apartment fire

September 14, 2023

Church leaders discuss synodal formation in Asia

Church leaders discuss synodal formation in Asia

September 13, 2023

China

China urged to release ‘disappeared’ rights lawyer

China urged to release ‘disappeared’ rights lawyer

Monday August 14, 2023, UCA News reporter

Gao Zhisheng has drawn the ire of the communist regime for defending rights of persecuted minority groups

China to further clamp down on religions: rights group

China to further clamp down on religions: rights group

Friday August 11, 2023, UCA News reporter

New rules severely restrain establishment and registration procedures for venues of both official and underground religious groups

China's plan to resume cross demolitions worries Christians

China's plan to resume cross demolitions worries Christians

Wednesday August 9, 2023, UCA News reporter

Since 2014, hundreds of crosses have been demolished in eastern Zhejiang province

33 dead, 18 missing after record Beijing rains

33 dead, 18 missing after record Beijing rains

Wednesday August 9, 2023, AFP, Beijing

China's capital has been hit by record downpours in recent weeks, damaging infrastructure and deluging suburbs

A rare visit to an 'underground' church in China

A rare visit to an 'underground' church in China

Tuesday August 8, 2023, Cristian Martini Grimaldi

Surrounded by simplicity and meager resources, I was reminded of Pope Francis and his ‘Church of the poor’

China releases jailed Tibetan dissident writer

China releases jailed Tibetan dissident writer

Tuesday August 8, 2023, UCA News reporter

Lobsang Lhundup was jailed for four years after he penned a book critical of Chinese rule in Tibet

Pro-Beijing bishops seek ‘sinicization of Catholic seminaries’

Pro-Beijing bishops seek ‘sinicization of Catholic seminaries’

Tuesday August 8, 2023, UCA News reporter

Each seminary should adhere to the direction of the Sinicization of Catholicism in the country, bishops say

China’s displaced Uyghur youth find solace in Turkey

China’s displaced Uyghur youth find solace in Turkey

Monday August 7, 2023, UCA News reporter

Youth centers offer education, help battle drug addiction and promote Uyghur culture and traditions

China executes S. Korean national for drug trafficking

China executes S. Korean national for drug trafficking

Saturday August 5, 2023, AFP, Beijing

China, the world's top executioner, frequently carries out the death penalty by lethal injection for very serious crimes

Laos urged to release dissident Chinese rights lawyer

Laos urged to release dissident Chinese rights lawyer

Friday August 4, 2023, UCA News reporter

Lu Siwei angered Beijing for representing Hong Kong's pro-democracy protesters and was arrested in Laos on July 28

China's capital battered by unprecedented rains

China's capital battered by unprecedented rains

Wednesday August 2, 2023, AFP, Beijing

Beijing's weather service described the downpour as heaviest since records began about 140 years ago

China arrests Uyghur mother for challenging son’s jailing

China arrests Uyghur mother for challenging son’s jailing

Tuesday August 1, 2023, UCA News reporter

Chinese authorities accused of arresting and jailing Uyghur Muslims amid a genocidal crackdown on the minority group

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