Topic: East Asia
Hollywood star Richard Gere -- a Buddhist and a longtime campaigner for the rights of Tibetans -- on Tuesday visited a Buddhist temple during a visit to South Korea.Gere will later this week also attend an opening ceremony for an exhibition of ...
Taiwan's leading telecom firm said Monday it will let a television station run by China's banned Falungong movement use its new satellite, reversing a controversial decision to end their contract."We've agreed that they can use the ST-2," said Chen Hui-yen, a spokeswoman ...
Hollywood star Richard Gere plans to visit South Korea this month to promote his photo exhibition and tour Buddhist temples, a religious official said Wednesday.Gere plans to tour Bulguksa temple in the ancient capital of Gyeongju, 370 km (230 miles) southeast of ...
China's state-controlled Catholic Church said Friday it was considering ordaining a bishop not supported by the Vatican in a move likely to further strain ties with the Holy See.Father Joseph Shen Guo'an has been put forward as bishop for Wuhan, capital of ...
Falungong members are suing Cisco Systems for custom-building "Golden Shield" Internet technology used by China to track down devotees of the spiritual movement.Cisco dismissed the case Monday as being without basis and vowed to "vigorously defend" itself.A lawsuit filed in US federal ...
Pope Benedict XVI called on Catholics across the world on Wednesday to pray that Chinese bishops refuse to separate from Rome, in spite of "pressure" from communist authorities.The pontiff appealed for prayers for the 5.7 million-odd Chinese Catholics caught between staying loyal ...
A group of underground Chinese Christian churches has issued a defiant petition to the country's parliament demanding respect for their constitutional right to freedom of religion.The petition -- signed by the pastors of 17 top unregistered churches -- was addressed to parliamentary ...
BEIJING (Reuters) - Seventeen churches in China have appealed to China's lawmakers to provide legal protection of religious freedom after police detained dozens of Christians from a Beijing church that has been trying to hold outdoor services.The petition, delivered on Wednesday by ...
China on Tuesday warned the United States to show caution in its handling of restive Tibet as the world's two largest economies met for wide-ranging talks.Executive Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Zhijun said that US leaders assured Beijing's delegation during the two-day dialogue ...
A US commission called Thursday for Egypt to be put on a blacklist for lack of religious freedom, saying attacks on Coptic Christians and other minorities have worsened despite political changes.In an annual report, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom said ...
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