Category: Asia
Tagle in peace call as Philippine orders Iraq evacuation
MANILA (UCAN): Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, incoming head of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Evangelisation…
Police accused of ignoring attack in university
NEW DELHI (UCAN): Police in India have been accused of failing to intervene when alleged…
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Illegal mining blamed for deadly floods
JAKARTA (UCAN): Illegal gold mining was the primary cause of flash floods that inundated six…
Deep anxieties after US drone strike assassination
“I think tensions have reached a level never seen before, and this is worrying and further complicates the situation in the region, which truly appears to be intensely heated.”
‘Absurd’ conviction for libel condemned by rights groups
BANGKOK (UCAN): Rights groups have condemned a decision by a Thai court to sentence a…
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New seminary under construction in Vietnam
THAI BINH (UCAN): The Diocese of Thai Binh, in northern Vietnam, began the construction of…
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Calls for restraint in restive Papua
JAKARTA (UCAN): Bishop Petrus Canisius Mandagi, apostolic administrator of Merauke Archdiocese, in Papua, Indonesia, called…
