Cuban President Diaz-Canel expected to win second term despite crises
Havana, Cuba Reuters Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel is widely expected to be chosen this week by assembly lawmakers to lead the country for another five years, despite a rocky first term marked by the coronavirus pandemic and a near-unprecedented economic crisis. Diaz-Canel, 62, heads the Communist Party, to which all 470-members of the legislature elected […]
More than 100 pastors jailed in crackdown in Vietnam, say rights activists
BosNewsLife (with reporting by STEFAN J BOS) Christian rights activists say more than 100 pastors of house churches in Vietnam remain in jail for refusing to join the central church in the communist nation. “The government-controlled ‘official church’ wants to combine multiple house churches in order to control and diminish the influence of the thriving independent […]