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1. Jailed Vietnamese activist priest suffers stroke 

   News - International

   Thursday, 19 November 2009

   Vietnamese priest Father Nguyen Van Ly, jailed for "anti government activities", suffered a stroke in prison and is partially paralysed, news reports cite his relatives saying.
   

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2. Nuns seek seized property return 

   News - International

   Friday, 06 November 2009

   Saying they can prove ownership, Saint Paul de Chartres nuns in southern Vietnam are demanding the government return land it seized and now says it wants to turn into a park.
   

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3. Floods and landslides in Asia as Bishop calls for prayer 

   News - International

   Friday, 09 October 2009

   Caritas Australia's Indian and Nepalses partners have begun helping in the "worst flooding in 100 years" in India's Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh states, and in Nepal's Accham and Dadeldhura districts where rains triggered landslides.
   

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4. Buried villages may be declared mass graves 

   News - International

   Thursday, 08 October 2009

   Indonesia may declare four villages lost under landslides that followed last week's earthquake as mass graves. At least 400 are believed to have been buried alive in mountainside villages.
   

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5. Timor church attacks release of accused militia man 

   News - International

   Friday, 18 September 2009

   Timor Leste's Catholic Church has joined NGOs and the United Nations in condemnation of the release of an Indonesian former militia commander, Martenus Bere, accused of crimes against humanity.
   

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6. No East Timor progress without justice: NGO 

   News - International

   Friday, 28 August 2009

   Long term development in East Timor will be "seriously hindered" if justice for past crimes remains undelivered, international development agency Progressio has warned, Ekklesia reported.
   

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7. Balibo journo's brother raising funds for Dili nuns 

   News - International

   Wednesday, 26 August 2009

   Paul Stewart, brother of slain Balibo five journalist Tony Stewart, has launched an appeal in Australia to raise money to buy a religious order of nuns in East Timor a vehicle to help their work with disabled children.
   

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8. Vietnamese Catholics protest priest beatings 

   News - International

   Thursday, 30 July 2009

   Protests erupted across Vietnam this week after two Catholic priests were beaten brutally allegedly by plain clothed police and pro-government thugs. One of them is in a coma.
   

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9. Vietnamese villagers fined over large families 

   News - International

   Friday, 17 July 2009

   Catholic villagers in Vietnam's Thua Thien-Hue province say their government's two child policy, imposed with the threat of a fine burdensome to the poor, force the use of artificial birth controls.
   

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10. Malaysian Catholics protest host desecration 

    News - International

    Tuesday, 14 July 2009

    Two Malaysian Catholics have lodged a police report against the Al Islam magazine over an article in which a Muslim journalist took the holy communion at a Kuala Lumpur parish before taking the wafer from his mouth and photographing it.
    

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