The ordained ministry is a gift from the Lord, "who looked upon us and told us ‘Follow me’." The failure to contemplate the gift leads to "all the deviations we know".

In 2011 the Missionary Servants of the Holy Spirit opened the mission in Goeka Baria, which includes eight villages. They taught irrigation and new crops, created support groups for women, and taught personal hygiene. Local leaders accused them of religious conversions but change their minds when they saw that their work was beneficial.

The old limit was 16 years. Every year, one in six Indonesian girls (340,000) gets married before they turn 18. Religious courts have already granted a15-year-old a dispensation to be legally married.

Catholic commitment starts first of all with unity with other Christian confessions. For Visitation church pastor, "The power of dialogue advocated by Christians lies in the friendships created between people of different religions, both in everyday life and in the workplace.” In recent years, building a church, buying land or raising a cross has become more difficult in Malaysia.

More than 80 clergymen from the Moscow Patriarchate have criticised the police for its violent methods and for the unfair imprisonment of protesters. Oleg Batov, who set up a theology professorship at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, is one of them. Priests inspired by the testimony of the late Fr Alexander Men, the "spiritual father" of dissent in the old atheist regime, did the same. Teachers and lawyers have also issued open letters. The Moscow Patriarchate has reacted with irony, calling for caution.

Saudi joins to back "regional and international efforts" to "counter the threats to maritime navigation". Saudis claim 18 drones and at least seven cruise missiles were involved in the attack, excluding Yemen as the place of launch. Growing tensions are pushing China to diversify its oil supplies.