The film looks at the social impact of drug trafficking in Myanmar and the daily struggle of those who oppose it. Some of the stories told are "unimaginable". The clergyman wants “filmmaking to serve the Church and its mission. For this reason, human values ​​and above all Christian values ​​are the protagonists of my films."

| 26/06/2018
| SOUTH KOREA – MYANMAR

A hospital in Hunan was the venue for this kind of trafficking. The criminals persuaded women to give up their babies to unknown buyers, signing a declaration that made the sale seem “voluntary and free".

| 26/06/2018
| CHINA
by Fady Noun

Patriarch Sako will be created cardinal on 29 June. He appeals to Iraqi Christians who fled from the Islamic State to come back and those who remain to stay. “I never imagined that such terrible things could happen to our people," he said. Christians must help “Islam to open up, to help it develop a new reading of the sacred texts, a realistic reading that puts them in their historical and cultural context".

| 26/06/2018
| IRAQ – VATICAN

"During the cordial talks - a Vatican statement informs - the good bilateral relations existing between the Holy See and France were underlined, and the contribution of religions to the promotion of the good was pointed out, with particular reference to the commitment of the Church. common".

| 26/06/2018
| VATICAN-FRANCE
by Sumon Corraya

The sculpture is in Shibpur, a mostly tribal village home to 300 Catholics. The community is so small that it has no resident priest and a catechist is in charge of worship. After police arrested the latter, local Catholics have demanded his release.

| 26/06/2018
| BANGLADESH

Imam: "Unacceptable behaviour of two foreigners". Public transport will not be authorized to bring tourists to the holy place. Local authorities: "What they considered 'amusing' is actually disrespectful and immoral to Sabah."

| 26/06/2018
| MALAYSIA
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