Category: Asia
Police brutality rife in Philippines rights watchdog says
MANILA (UCAN): “Police brutality is common in the Philippines, where police officers commit serious abuses…
Silent Christmas for Christians in war-torn Myanmar
YANGON (UCAN): A Christmas of darkness, silence and fear awaited thousands of Myanmar’s Christians in…
Bombs found and defused at churches in the Philippines
MANILA (UCAN): Military experts in the Philippines have diffused three homemade bombs found on the…
Catholic village reduced to ashes in Myanmar
MANDALAY (UCAN): Soldiers continued an arson campaign by Myanmar’s military juna against villages in the…
Renewed calls for Myanmar to end death penalty
YANGON (UCAN): The Myanmar junta’s recent handing down of the death sentence on university students…
