These are our top stories in Asia this week:
- Pope orders salary cuts for cardinals, priests, to save jobs of employees
- Pope Francis hits ‘mafia’ for exploiting COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 aggravates global decline in freedom, report says
- Asian cardinals issue appeal for peace, reconciliation in Myanmar
- Fate of 81 Rohingya adrift at sea for weeks still unresolved, rights group says
- Indian court refuses bail for detained 83-year-old Jesuit priest
- Pope Francis names new archbishop of Manila
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