Thai authorities are still detaining the ethnic minority Christian refugees rounded up en masse in August and have divided families, holding adults in a detention centre and a number of children elsewhere. “I’m very scared, I’m in here by myself but my kids are
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Two Pakistani Christian brothers shared a cell the size of a family’s living room with a hundred men for nine months in a notorious Bangkok immigrant detention centre. “Saleem”, a 30-year-old civil engineer, described how he and his brother were “arrested and
Read moreAnila Ilyas (not her real name) was wide awake, keeping an eye on the road from the window of her fifth-floor apartment. All her belongings were packed and she was trying her best to stop her three teenage sons from
Read moreThailand’s venerated King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the world’s longest-reigning monarch, has died at the age of 88, according to an announcement by the Royal Palace. “His Majesty has passed away at Siriraj Hospital peacefully,” a statement said on Thursday, 13th October.
Read moreFollowing a BBC report (British media outlet) that revealed the mistreatment of asylum seekers in Thailand, the country has blocked the entry of humanitarian agencies into detention centres, where Pakistani Christians who have fled religious persecution in their own country
Read moreAccording to the Bangkok Post, at least 18 people have been killed and 78 wounded by a bomb blast that hit the commercial centre of the Thai capital Bangkok on Monday evening, local time. Earlier, Reuters had reported that at
Read moreTen years ago, when he was 19, Myanmar government soldiers attacked Panyuk’s village in Myanmar’s Karen State, as part of a brutal campaign against the nation’s ethnic minorities. The soldiers, young men barely older than himself, killed his father and
Read moreThey were a middle-class, Christian family in Pakistan, living in a comfortable three-bedroom apartment with a modern kitchen and a Play-Station for their three children. Fluent in English, the father ran his own moving company while the mother taught art.
Read moreThey are not considered homosexual in Thailand. They are ladyboys and toms. And, they are an unreached people group in this nation that serves so many of the sexual appetites of visitors.
Read moreMuslims in Thailand constitute a largely unreached people group.
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