Paolo Fossati

The painting includes 15 scenes from the lives of Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary, including the Annunciation and the Passion. Those depicted wear traditional Japanese clothes and items. Christianity arrived in Japan in 1549. Warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi issued an order to expel Christians in 1587. The Tokugawa shogunate, during the Edo period, banned the religion in 1612.

A documentary casts shadows on a 2012 farm labour agreement between Thailand and Israel, which has benefitted more than 25,000 Thai workers. According to the documentary, 172 migrants have died working in Israel, in many cases for unknown causes. Israel blames the Brugada syndrome.

Users can inform on people who hold unauthorised beliefs or unorthodox interpretations of the six religions recognised by the state. Human rights groups have criticised the software, arguing that it will only serve to undermine religious tolerance in the country.

Daughter tells police she couldn’t care for her father and that it would have been better for him to be sent to a nursing home after police found him. He couldn’t remember his name or address. The incident highlights the old practice of abandoning sick elderly people to their death in a remote and desolate place.

The reconnected railway is part of an agreement between the leaders of the Koreas, signed in April. The convoy left Dorasan (in the South) and in 18 days will cross 1,200 km of tracks. Mons. You: "We need to take these steps together".

Three policemen were convicted for the killing of a 17-year-old man mistaken for a drug courier. For Fr Edwin A. Gariguez, the sentence “is a victory of justice over the tyrannical war on drugs being pursued by the present government.” So far, 54 minors have been killed in the war.

Hindus are split over relocating their temple because its land is the source of a legal dispute. Real estate company pays more than US$ 35,000 to Muslim men to seize the temple before the arrival of the police. Insults and violence follow with 18 cars and two motorcycles torched.

The islanders challenge Abe. Some 90,000 signatures were collected in favour of the vote. Japanese authorities want to relocate the base from Ginowan to Henoko. Residents oppose the move because of pollution, dangers, and relations with US military.

Some 161,584 people were arrested in the more than 100,000 anti-drug operations ordered by President Duterte. But only 8,935 of the country’s 42,044 baragays are drug-free. Some 271 drug dens and laboratories have been shut down.

Government makes "an exception" to the sanctions against Pyongyang. Once again, sport plays an important role in the peace process of the region. The general assembly of the Association of National Olympic Committees will open tomorrow.

For mainland media, “her separatist stance has lost her the support of the people on the island". The ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) now controls only six cities and counties, whilst pro-mainland Kuomintang has 15. Tsai quit as party leader but will remain as president until the end of her mandate.

Presidential spokesperson U Zaw Htay claims that NGOs are deliberately discouraging refugees from returning. “They want to be there indefinitely”.