Sisters in the Hue Archdiocese give allowances of one million dong (US$42) per month to 17 psychiatric patients as a way to stave off their hunger and undernourishment.
A group of Catholic nuns in Thailand have launched a feeding program in the country's largest slum in the capital Bangkok to assist hundreds of poor people for a token fee.
The Missionaries of Charity have closed a home for orphaned and abandoned children in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh following the expiration of its land lease.