As talks restart this month about repatriating Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh back to Myanmar, neither country’s government has an answer for the fate of Hindu Rohingyas still stuck in Bangladesh.

According to Catholic relief agencies, indigenous families, such as the Warao, have been forced to flee to Venezuala from Brazil, because of environmental and economic hardships.

Aasia Bibi, the Pakistani woman who was convicted of blasphemy in 2009 for being a Christian and put on death row and whose conviction was subsequently overturned, has left the country to be reunited with her daughters in Canada.

In a even more scandalous twist, the practice of human trafficking has been made even more egregious with reports of Christian pastors in Pakistan helping to facilitate the transfer of young Christian Pakistani women as brides in China. For the promise of thousands of dollars, poor parents are enticed to hand over their daughters for the Chinese marriage market.

The two Reuters journalists who have been jailed since December 2017 because of their coverage of the military's abuse of Rohingya Muslims were released from prison to great joy from family members and colleagues. They were released as part of an effort to promote peace and national reconciliation.

Helping children who lost their parents when a pair of cyclones hit Mozambique is among the most difficult work in the aftermath, an aid worker said.