Topic: East Asia
Once they echoed across Japan's temple grounds and battlefields, but today taiko drums, dubbed the country's ancient heartbeat, send out a message that has resonated around the world. The primal beat of Japan's best-known taiko ensemble, Kodo, rumbled through the wooded park ...
Chinese Bishop Giulio Jia Zhiguo, who was arrested last year after holding a meeting on the state of the Roman Catholic Church in China, has been released, the Vatican announced Thursday. The 75-year-old bishop of Zhengding, in northern China's Hebei province, "was ...
A Catholic priest and a nun were murdered in northern China this week, but the motive was not immediately clear, police said on Thursday. AsiaNews, a Vatican-based news service, said Joseph Shulai Zhang and Sister Mary Wei Yanhui were apparently stabbed to ...
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's first "Religious Games" took place in the southwestern province of Yunnan this week, allowing Buddhist monks and Taoist nuns to compete with Muslims, Catholics and Protestants in a series of sporting events, local media reported. The Games, held ...
BEIJING (Reuters) - A leading Tibetan collector of antiquities has been in detention nearly five months, his lawyer said Tuesday, and faces charges dating back over a decade that critics fear may be politically motivated. Karma Samdup was due to face trial ...
At a Tibetan precipice: With the Dalai Lama nearly 75, what happens after he dies?The question looms over this raggedy hillside town, a place where ancient mysticism constantly brushes against the realities of modern geopolitics. The monks who fled across the Himalayas ...
BEIJING (Reuters) - Two human rights lawyers who represented defendants in sensitive cases, including members of the banned Falun Gong sect, have been permanently disbarred, according to the Beijing bureau of justice. Tang Jitian, 42, and Liu Wei, 33, had their license ...
US panel names Saudi Arabia, China, 11 others as serious religious rights violatorsSaudi Arabia and China are among 13 countries a U.S. government panel named on Thursday as serious violators of religious freedom. The panel's report also criticized the current and former ...
In an investigation spanning 21 countries across six continents, The Associated Press found 30 cases of Roman Catholic priests accused of abuse who were transferred or moved abroad. Here are snapshots of some of the cases: ___ REV. DENIS VADEBONCOEUR Vadeboncoeur, a ...
Scores of chanting Tibetans and silently meditating Falun Gong practitioners staged a peaceful protest in Washington Monday to warn world leaders gathered here for a nuclear weapons summit not to take Beijing's pledges at face value. "World leaders should be careful of ...
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