PHILIPPINES: Maryknoll nun gives a voice to 'silent' victims
INTERNATIONAL: The Vatican has urged local bishops to let dispensed priests play a more active parish role, reports The Catholic Herald.
PHILIPPINES: Filipino priest Robert Reyes dons his running shoes to fight injustices, corruption, environmental degradation and a host of other causes, writes Kate McGeown for BBC News.
KOREA: A Korean radio show for children will feature the story of missionary and physician Father Lee Tae-seok, who ministered in southern Sudan, reports The Korea Herald.
CHINA: The People Daily questions why China can't pick its own bishops, adding that excommunication is "a medieval tool that has no place in 2011 in China or anywhere".
HONG KONG: A Hong Kong priest denied entry into China believes spat with the Vatican is at the root, reports Reuters and AFP in The West Australian.
VIETNAM: Vietnamese authorities have forced activist priest Fr Nguyen Van Ly back to prison, said reports in the Washington Post and BBC.
INDIA: A mother of 15 children, of whom ten became priests and religious sisters, is being mourned in southern India, reports the Catholic News Agency
PHILIPPINES: Father Rudy Romano is the 'face of all who vanished during and after dictatorship'
PHILIPPINES: Official lays contempt charges against Catholic, a government auditor, and a newspaper executive
PHILIPPINES: Unfailing commitment and leadership 'empowered the Filipino community'