Human Rights Watch

Religious hostility is a major challenge for the estimated 200 self-identified lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender refugees at Kakuma, which hosts almost 180,000 refugees from Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan, Somalia and Uganda.

A prominent Catholic blogger and activist ended a two-week hunger strike in a Vietnamese prison after she met with visiting U.S. diplomats, local bloggers reported.

Bangladesh Cardinal Patrick D'Rozario praises his country’s openness to accept hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims escaping neighboring Myanmar, calling the treatment of the religious minority a “crime against humanity.”

Bishop Santo Loku Pio Doggale is not a man to mince words and he didn't earlier this year when he discussed South Sudan’s descent into a worsening, seemingly never-ending civil war.