Tag: Covid-19
Posted in Asia
Sri Lanka’s Muslims angered by forced Covid-19 cremations
COLOMBO (UCAN): Sri Lanka made cremations compulsory for Covid-19 coronavirus (SARS-Cov-2) victims on April 12,…
Thai medical frontliners ill-equipped and overworked
BANGKOK (UCAN): Medical workers on the front lines of Thailand’s fight against the Covid-19 coronavirus…
Posted in The Philippines
Backlash as largest Philippine broadcasting network forced to close
MANILA (SE): “When freedom of speech or criticism is suppressed, tyranny abounds, liberty dissolves, our…
Posted in Middle East
Threats to religious freedom and health in northeast Syria
AMMAN (CNS): Advocates for religious freedom and medical practitioners have expressed concerns about the Covid-19…
East Jerusalem Catholic hospital gets coronavirus unit for Palestinians
JERUSALEM (CNS): When the Israeli Ministry of Health asked St. Joseph’s Hospital, run by the…
Serenading priests bring neighbours together amid Covid-19 lockdown
ROME (CNS): While the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic has forced people in Madrid, Spain, to isolate…
Posted in China
Revision of death toll in China raises suspicions
CHINA (UCAN): Local people suspect that April 17 revision of the Covid-19 death toll in…
