Activists protest SL journalist’s sentence

Rights activists, including priests, have criticized the decision by the Colombo High Court to sentence Tamil journalist, Jayaprakash Sittampalam Tissanayagam, to 20 years’ imprisonment.
“This unexpected verdict comes at a time when our country needs determined journalists who can present all sides of the truth,” said Father Marimuthupillai Sathivel of St Michael Church in Colombo, UCA [...]

An open letter to `spying’ Malaysian Muslim reporters

It is a pity that you have gone through so much trouble to ‘investigate’ under guise what is going on in Catholic Churches or that ‘Muslim teenagers were being converted to Christianity in Kuala Lumpur ’s churches every Sunday’. (Martin Jalleh, Malaysia Today)

Vietnam ‘anti-war’ priest buried

Fr Phero Truong Ba Can, long time editor in chief of Vietnam’s Catholicism and The Nation magazine, who was imprisoned by the former South Vietnamese Thieu regime for his anti-war activities, has died aged 79.