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Bangladeshi PM accuses Myanmar over Rohingya delay0
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- June 11, 2019
Hasina also claims aid workers fear they will lose their jobs if repatriation goes ahead Bangladeshi PM Sheikh Hasina said a delay in repatriation should be blamed on Myanmar and aid groups. Stephan Uttom and Rock Ronald Rozario, Dhaka, BangladeshJune 11, 2019 Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has blamed Myanmar and aid agencies for the
READ MOREMinorities languish in Indian jails0
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- May 30, 2019
Minorities languish in Indian jails and they are more likely to face the death penalty, according to a new report that analyzes official government statistics Umar Manzoor Shah, New Delhi India May 29, 2019 A disproportionate number of India’s minorities such as Muslims, tribal people and socially poor Dalits formerly known as ‘untouchables’ are imprisoned or
READ MOREIndian archbishop calls for action against cow vigilantes0
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- May 30, 2019
Social media video shows three victims in Madhya Pradesh being tied to a tree and beaten Saji Thomas, Bhopal India May 29, 2019 A fresh attack by so-called cow vigilantes has brought a call by a Catholic archbishop for stringent action to ensure peace in India’s multifaith society. Police in Seoni district of the central
READ MORECaste-driven honor killings still haunt India0
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- May 23, 2019
Rigid caste system means that some families choose to murder relatives who break its rules Umar Manzoor Shah, New Delhi India May 23, 2019 Ratna Devi, who lives in a shanty home alongside the Yamuna River in New Delhi, remembers vividly how she and her husband were brutally assaulted by her family because she had
READ MOREPro-military rallies in Myanmar counter grassroots demonstrations0
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- May 16, 2019
Ultra-nationalist monk seeks to make a political comeback by championing the armed forces John Zaw, Mandalay , Myanmar, May 15, 2019 Ultra-nationalist Myanmar monk Ashin Wirathu has told a rally of hard-line nationalists that military officers sitting in parliament should be worshipped like God. On the morning of May 5, hundreds of people joined a
READ MOREPakistani Christian teen ‘raped, forcibly converted to Islam’0
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- May 16, 2019
Pastor who helped 15-year-old make police complaint says her marriage was illegal ucanews.com reporter, Karachi Pakistan May 15, 2019 A teenage Christian girl claims she was raped, forcibly converted to Islam and then married off to a 45-year-old Muslim divorcee in the Pakistani port city of Karachi. Neha Pervaiz, 15, a resident of Ittehad Town,
READ MOREHard life for transgender people in Bangladesh0
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- May 16, 2019
Known as hijra, many flee home to save their families from shame and live in desperate poverty or slip into sex trade Stephan Uttom and Rock Ronald Rozario, Dhaka Bangladesh May 16, 2019 Over 40 years ago a self-described “unsuitable girly boy” fled her home in Dhaka to realize her “true” sexual identity and free
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Asia’s Muslim leaders grasp for answers over Easter Sunday bombings. Some clerics see Sri Lanka terror attacks as part of a deep-rooted conspiracy to defame Islam and Muslims0
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- May 16, 2019
ucanews.com reporters Asia May 13, 2019 Muslim leaders are looking for Islamic unity in Asia as they distance themselves from the increasing radicalization and bloodshed in the region linked with the so-called Islamic State (IS). With the Easter Sunday bombings of multiple churches and hotels in Sri Lanka, leaders admit that the terror group has
READ MORESri Lanka urged to stem post-terror revenge0
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- May 14, 2019
International rights’ groups say Muslim as well as other foreign refugees and asylum seekers need protection May 14, 2019 International human rights’ groups have urged the Sri Lankan government to protect Muslim as well as other foreign refugees and asylum seekers following the Easter Sunday bombings in which Christians were targeted. More than 250 people
READ MOREChurchgoers cowed by Islamist bullies in Bangladesh0
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- May 14, 2019
Stephan Uttom and Rock Rozario, Dhaka, Bangladesh 14 May 2019 In January, a group of masked men blocked some Catholic villagers who were heading home from a church liturgy about 80 kilometers west of the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka and gave them a beating so severe at least one was hospitalized. The man was so traumatized
READ MOREIndian govt accused of inciting violence against minorities0
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- May 3, 2019
3 May 2019 – ucanews.com US report outlines decreasing religious freedom for Christians, Muslims in Hindu-majority nation A U.S. report has painted a grim picture of declining religious freedom in India and accused the country’s government of encouraging violence against Christians and Muslims. The latest report by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF),
READ MOREAcademy plan threatens protected forest in Bangladesh Activists say civil service training center in Cox’s Bazar would be disastrous for the environment0
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- April 17, 2019
by Stephan Uttom and Rock Ronald Rozario, Dhaka Bangladesh 16 April 2019 Environmental groups and church officials have criticized a government plan to establish an academy in an ecologically critical forest zone in Cox’s Bazar district of southeast Bangladesh. The Public Administration Ministry is seeking 700 acres of protected forest land in Shuknachhari to build
READ MORERohingya children’s school dreams hit stony ground 0
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- April 17, 2019
New order banning refugees from state schools in Cox’s Bazar deprives them of an education, ramps up criminal risks Stephan Uttom in Cox’s Bazar and Rock Rozario in Dhaka Bangladesh April 16, 2019 Abdul Noor, 16, was jubilant at being accepted by Leda High School in Teknaf of Southeast Bangladesh’s now world-famous Cox’s Bazar, home
READ MOREChristians, Muslims protest over Indian cow vigilantes Hindu mob beat Catholic man to death for suspected cow slaughter in Jharkhand state0
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- April 17, 2019
Protesters near the Jharkhand Bhawan building in New Delhi on April 15 display placards and shout anti-government slogans after a Hindu mob lynched a Catholic in Jharkhand in a case of cow vigilantism. (Photo by Bijay Kumar Minj/ucanews.com) Bijay Kumar Minj, New Delhi India 17 April 2019 Five days after a mob of Hindus beat
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