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• Philippine water plan threatens thousands of tribal people

  Local leaders claim Chinese-funded scheme will displace at least 100,000, destroy communities

• Priest in India arrested over alleged lewd text to teen

  Rajasthan priest's vicar general said text message has been taken out of context

• Death penalty 'won't stop' India's child rape crisis

  Church leaders dismiss emergency law as knee-jerk reaction as archbishop calls for society to change mindset of offenders

• Pakistan's top judge to hear Asia Bibi's death sentence appeal

  Catholic mother's lawyer has high hopes her conviction will be struck down by Supreme Court