Children

Top court stands up for Bangladesh's street children

Orders govt to explain why thousands of street children lack birth certificates which prevent school, benefit access

Timorese journalist charged for questioning 'forced' virginity tests

Raimundos Oki calls tests' on child abuse victims a violation of human rights

Myanmar Church program invigorates poor rural youth

Young children from urban and rural areas jointly participated in teambuilding activities, music and dance

Church must speak out against child abuse in sport

Like Meggie Ochoa, we all need to be child rights advocates and give support to the cries for help of abused children

JRS-USA official visits Ukrainian child refugees in Romania

The war has created an estimated 13 million refugees, most of whom have fled to neighboring countries

Religious teacher in Indonesia jailed for raping student

Catholic education analyst attributes sex crimes at schools to the country's 'power of culture'

More than 600 abuse victims in German diocese, says report

At least 5,700 individual acts of sexual abuse had been committed by 196 clergymen in Muenster

Catholic order explains delay in reporting Singapore sex abuse

Religious order says child victims refused to file complaints with police for privacy reasons

Good judges bring justice to victims of child sex abuse

Dedicated officials are an inspiration to all by implementing the law and giving justice to victims in the Philippines

Church must support law to stop child abuse in Philippines

It is the duty of the church leaders to see that the law challenging ISPs is implemented

Child abuse spreads like the coronavirus

Child abuse continues to thrive because many in society, including the Church, turn a blind eye

Scourge of child labor shames Asia

As long as there is poverty, society will not manage to stop the commercial and sexual exploitation of children

Philippines divorce bill dismays Church leaders, youth group

Monolingual clergy in a multilingual Japanese Church

Indian Christians, civil society honor Fr Stan Swamy

Auditors in China to monitor online religious activities

Pakistan's St. Thomas pilgrimage makes big recovery

Thousands more escape as Sydney floods track north