Topic: Southeast Asia
In silent meditation, the Falungong members did not flinch when a shirtless, tattooed man slapped them on the head, or when a burly female security agent dragged a dried palm leaf across their faces.Vietnamese practitioners of Falungong -- a Buddhist-inspired traditional Chinese ...
Religious tensions have flared in Vietnam after communist authorities moved in to start work on a sewage reservoir that Catholics say is on church land.Riot police were seen at a roadblock leading to the site down a narrow street near the Thai ...
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Two Malaysian states are set to change their Islamic laws to punish Muslims who engage in homosexuality, raising the prospect of gay Muslims being punished twice and stoking concerns about rising intolerance toward same-gender relationships.Homosexuality is punishable by ...
Vietnam on Thursday jailed two Falungong practitioners for beaming radio broadcasts into China, their lawyer said, where the movement is banned and labelled an "evil cult".Vu Duc Trung, 31, received a three-year sentence and his brother-in-law Le Van Thanh, 36, was sentenced ...
Filipinos making their traditional All Saints' Day visits to cemeteries should watch out for fake priests offering to bless the dead for money, a senior bishop warned Tuesday.Security guards at cemeteries and people approached by these priests were advised to check their ...
A Italian Catholic priest was shot dead inside his church compound in the troubled southern Philippines on Monday, police said.An unknown gunman shot Fausto Tentorio in the remote farming town of Arakan on Mindanao island, police said.A "suspect suddenly appeared and without ...
With its barbed wire, sandbag bunker and armed guards, Wat Lak Muang in Thailand's strife-torn deep south looks more like a military outpost than a typical Buddhist temple.Since a deadly insurgency erupted in the Muslim-dominated region seven years ago, the army has ...
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged governments Tuesday to do more to defend religious freedom as Washington released a report citing eight countries with troubling records on the issue."We reaffirm the role that religious freedom and tolerance play in building stable ...
MANILA (Reuters) - Maoist rebels Saturday demanded the release of at least five more detained guerrilla leaders before peace negotiations could resume with the Philippines government, the chief negotiator of the communist-led National Democratic Front said.Luis Jalandoni, a former Roman Catholic priest, ...
The Indonesian Broadcasting Commission criticised a major television station for giving into Islamists' demands that a film on religious tolerance be pulled.The Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) had threatened to storm SCTV headquarters if it broadcast a movie titled "?", scheduled for the ...
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