As China, Vatican talk, bishop's fate shows party's power
Mar 31, 2018
Bishop's forced exile comes as Vatican, China seek historic deal to unite country's Catholics for first time in decades
Devotees nailed to crosses on Good Friday in Philippines
Mar 30, 2018
Seven Filipino Roman Catholic devotees, including a woman, have been nailed to crosses in a Good Friday reenactment of Jesus Christ's sufferings that was watched by thousands of spectators but frowned upon by church leaders
Freed Filipino priest says airstrikes routed IS extremists
Mar 23, 2018
A Filipino Roman Catholic priest taken hostage last year by Islamic State group-linked militants says military airstrikes helped crush an extremist siege, but that a Muslim autonomy deal is crucial in preventing new bloodshed
Bali's Day of Silence shuts airport, clears beaches, streets
Mar 17, 2018
Normally bustling Bali has shut down social media, turned away flights and shuttered all shops for a Day of Silence that marks New Year on the predominantly Hindu island
New China 'crime' crackdown targets threats to party rule
Mar 16, 2018
Tibetan activists, housing petitioners and other campaigners are targets of China's newly begun crackdown against so-called organized crime
Ethnic Uighurs protest Chinese security crackdown
Mar 16, 2018
Members of the Uighur Muslim ethnic group are protesting a sweeping Chinese surveillance and security campaign that has sent thousands of people into detention and political indoctrination centers
Indonesia's Aceh considers beheading as penalty for murder
Mar 15, 2018
The conservative Indonesian province of Aceh known for publicly caning gays, adulterers and gamblers is considering the introduction of beheading as a punishment for murder
Myanmar says UN findings on human rights lack credibility
Mar 13, 2018
Myanmar's government has rejected two reports presented to the U.N. Human Rights Council that concluded it committed extreme human rights violations, probably amounting to crimes under international law, in its repression of several minority groups
Bali to shush social media for Day of Silence
Mar 13, 2018
Bali's annual Day of Silence is so sacred that even reaching for a smartphone to send a tweet or upload a selfie to social media could cause offense
Philippine police say Arab militant suspect won't be freed
Mar 9, 2018
Philippine police say an alleged former commander of the Islamic State group in Syria who was arrested in Manila will not be freed even after a prosecutor dropped criminal complaints of illegal possession of explosives against him
