Topic: East Asia
China on Tuesday blamed Buddhist monks for causing unrest in a Tibetan region, accusing them of disrupting social order and defaming their religion.The foreign ministry refused to confirm allegations two Tibetans were killed in a security crackdown at the Kirti Monastery in ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Belief in a god, or a supreme being, and some sort of afterlife is strong in many countries around the globe, according to a new Ipsos/Reuters poll.Fifty one percent of the 18,829 people across 23 countries who ...
A husband and wife who said they endured years of ill treatment in Chinese camps for practicing Falungong are urging greater global attention to the plight of the spiritual movement.Zhang Lianying and her husband Niu Jinping, two high-profile practitioners of Falungong who ...
Two Tibetans have died in a security crackdown on a Buddhist monastery in southwest China, an activist group said, after the restive area was closed to foreigners.Authorities have sealed off Kirti Monastery in Sichuan province and ordered a re-education programme there following ...
BEIJING (Reuters) - China has banned foreigners from some restive, heavily Tibetan parts of southwestern Sichuan province, travel agents said on Friday, in an apparent attempt to close off a region shaken by recent clashes with the police.The notice, issued by provincial ...
A video of unrest at a Tibetan monastery in China where a monk burnt himself to death has surfaced, with overseas activists saying it refutes Chinese government claims that the situation there is normal.The video obtained by the Voice of America's Tibetan ...
BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Tuesday everything was "normal" at a Tibetan Buddhist monastery after the Dalai Lama urged restraint in a stand-off between security forces and Tibetans at the temple in southwest China."According to what we understand, over the past ...
Police in Beijing rounded up dozens of followers of an underground Protestant church Sunday, a rights group said, as a widening crackdown on dissent appeared to spread to religious figures.Police late Saturday also detained Jin Tianming, a senior pastor of Beijing's Shouwang ...
The Dalai Lama has urged restraint in a standoff with security forces at a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in China, warning of "catastrophic consequences" if the situation deteriorates."I urge both the monks and the lay Tibetans of the area not to do anything ...
One of the earliest Christian missionaries in China is to be beatified in Shanghai, the Vatican said Friday, in a sign of hope for improved relations between Beijing and the Holy See."It's a pleasing light of hope for China today and tomorrow," ...
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