Tag: international

Pontifical Academy for Life recognizes how restrictions on social contacts can lead to situations of isolation, despair, anger, and abuse

Envoy accuses Malaysian govt of ‘statistical sleight of hand’ in claiming it has a poverty rate of 0.4 percent

Despite social distancing and home quarantining being near impossible, the lack of infections in Dharavi is nothing short of a miracle, priest says

The Holy See is the only European state that acknowledges Taiwan as a country

Court decided caning would be inhumane as the men were refugees and did not have any prior history of crime or violence

More than 600 elected officials from 30 countries called on China’s communist rulers to immediately halt persecution now in its 21st year

Lawyers also seek a review of a case against six Rohingya teenagers, including two girls, who they say have been wrongly tried and convicted as adults

In new guidelines released on July 20, the Holy See urged priests not to fix prices for celebrating weddings and funerals.

Less flowery talk, more action needed from govt on improving human rights situation, Human Rights Watch says

Thousands of women and girls from Nepal are trafficked to India and elsewhere for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation each year