Catholics in South Sudan hope the papal visit to the country "hasn’t been put off completely", bishops' conference president Bishop Edward Hiiboro Kussala has said.
A court has ordered Kenya's bishops to pay a Somali Muslim restaurant owner 13 million Kenyan shillings (£97,000, $125,000, €112,000).
Officials in the Philippines have asked social media to remove a video of Islamists desecrating a church in Marawi.
The best way to halt the decline in female religious life is to give women more decision-making roles, a front-page essay in L’Osservatore Romano has argued.
