The PIME's news agency, Asia News, reports that in Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim country, the Constitutional Court has approved the marriage of girls in their late teens, considered "adult" and "ready" for a bond, thus risking to open the door to
"forced" marriages of young women in their early teens.
Agenzia Fides has published updated information about Christian minorities in the Middle East. Thousands of Christian families have fled the city of Hassaké, Syria, because of the advance of the Islamic State (Da'esh). Among the first to flee, are nearly
4 thousand Christian families of various Churches (Chaldeans, Assyrians, Syrian Catholics and Syrian Orthodox) who have mainly taken refuge in the nearby urban area of Qamishli. Archbishop Jacques Behnan Hindo, head of the Syrian Catholic Archeparchy of Hassaké-Nisibi, left Hassaké with his community of faithful and has found shelter in Qamishli.