US Holocaust Museum says China boosting Uighur repression
Washington DC, USAP The US Holocaust Memorial Museum says it has compiled evidence of increasing government repression against Uighur Muslims in China’s western Xinjiang region. In a new report released Tuesday, the museum’s Center for the Prevention of Genocide says there is now “a reasonable basis” to believe that previously alleged crimes against humanity versus the Uighurs are growing amid […]
Catholicism in India: Hopes a papal visit will halt anti-Christian persecution
CLAIRE GIANGRAVÉ, of Religion News Service, reports on hopes Pope Francis will visit India following his meeting late last month with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Vatican…
Haiti priest recounts abduction by gang holding missionaries
San Juan, Puerto Rico AP Rev Jean-Nicaisse Milien felt the cool barrel of a gun against his right ear. The Haitian priest and nine other people had just been kidnapped while driving through the outskirts of the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, in early April. It was around 7am and they were en route to celebrate the […]
Essay: How the world’s militaries hide their huge carbon emissions
UK-based researchers DOUG WEIR, BENJAMIN NEIMARK and OLIVER BELCHER, look – in an article first published on The Conversation – at what we do know about the contribution armed forces make to the climate crisis…