by Vladimir Rozanskij | UKRAINE - RUSSIA

Already 38 clerics linked to the Moscow Patriarchate have been found ‘guilty’ of treason by the courts in Kiev. Many are asking to be transferred to Russia, but there are no signs of a particularly favourable welcome there: in the ‘hybrid war’ of Ukrainian politics, the presence of ‘loyal’ metropolitans, bishops and priests in the country is a factor that cannot be ignored.


Emerging out of the rubble of the 2015 earthquake, the group has worked across the country for the past ten years to help people in need, earning trust for its transparent management of funds. In its anti-corruption campaigns, it has become a point of reference for young Nepalis disillusioned with the country’s political elite. It also organised the online poll that led to the appointment of Sushila Karki as caretaker prime minister, who will now lead the country through the 2026 elections.

| 15/09/2025
| NEPAL
by Mathias Hariyadi

The government, through the Ministry of Finance, has allocated more than billion to five credit institutions. The funds will be provided through a ‘demand deposit’ scheme and will also apply to Islamic finance. Scepticism and doubts about the real effectiveness, the logic of the measure and the real impact on the economy.

| 15/09/2025
| INDONESIA
by Vladimir Rozanskij

The two million elderly people make up less than 30% of the country's population. One of the biggest difficulties they face is healthcare, which is very precarious at the public level. ‘Without our children, we would not be able to survive.’ And many today regret the Soviet era.

| 15/09/2025
| KYRGYSTAN

During the ecumenical celebration at St Paul's Outside the Walls in honour of the 1,624 Christians of all denominations who gave their lives for the Gospel in the first 25 years of this century, Pope Leo XIV quoted the words of a child who died at the age of 10 among the victims of the Youhanabad massacre on 15 March 2025. ‘Although they were killed in body, no one can silence their voices or erase the love they gave.’

| 15/09/2025
| VATICAN - PAKISTAN

On his birthday, his first as pope, Leo led the Angelus. “I give thanks to the Lord and to my parents,” he said. On the Feast of the Exultation of the Holy Cross, he said that Jesus offered “himself as our companion, teacher, doctor, friend”. In the afternoon, in the Basilica of St Paul Outside the Walls, the commemoration of the Martyrs and Witnesses to the Faith of the 21st century was held.

| 14/09/2025
| VATICAN

Bishop Moon of Cheju, chairman of the Bishops' Conference's Committee for Family and Life, met with Democratic Party lawmakers who are promoting a bill that the Church sees as a path towards unlimited abortions. The issue came to the fore in 2019 after a ruling by the Constitutional Court. For Bishop, “We must move towards respect for life.”

| 14/09/2025
| ECCLESIA IN ASIA
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During the ecumenical celebration at St Paul's Outside the Walls in honour of the 1,624 Christians of all denominations who gave their lives for the Gospel in the first 25 years of this century, Pope Leo XIV quoted the words of a child who died at ...
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| 13/09/2025
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