Papua New Guinea in 2019
June 18, 2020
Papua New Guinea has about 8 million inhabitants. The Catholic Church has only been represented here for a few generations and today, with more than 2 million believers, it forms...
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Sri Lanka
June 18, 2020
About 70% of Sri Lanka’s 21 million inhabitants are Buddhists. Just under 13% are Hindus, 10% are Muslims and 7.4% are mainly Catholic Christians. A civil war raged in the...
Philippines in 2020
June 18, 2020
The Philippines is the only majority Christian country in Asia. More than 80% of the island nation’s 100 million inhabitants are Catholic. 2020 was also marked by the coronavirus pandemic...
Pakistan in 2020
June 18, 2020
Of Pakistan’s approximately 207 million inhabitants, about 97% are Muslims. Religious minorities – including Christians, who make up 2% of the total population – are practically second-class citizens. They suffer...
India in 2020
June 18, 2020
With more than 1.3 billion inhabitants, India is the country with the world’s largest population after China. Although the country has a rapidly growing economy, many regions are still plagued...
Kyrgyzstan in 2019
June 18, 2020
Kyrgyzstan was a Soviet republic until 1991. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the country became independent. Only about 6.3 million people belonging to different ethnic groups live on...
Asia / Oceania
June 18, 2020
In many parts of Asia and Oceania, poverty and natural disasters complicate the lives of the population and thus also the work of the Church. Across the area, rural exodus...
Vietnam
October 14, 2019
Although Vietnam, a communist-ruled, Confucian country, has made significant economic progress in recent years, it still ranks among the poorer middle-income countries. Consumer- oriented thinking and the desire for a...
Kazakhstan in 2020
October 14, 2019
With a national territory of more than 2.7 million square kilometres, Kazakhstan is larger than a quarter of the USA. At the same time, however, the country only has 18...