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Some 3,000 children celebrate Christmas

Some 3,000 children from villages around Our Lady of the Smiles Parish (ChamkarTeang) gathered to celebrate Christmas. They have received the news on the Birth of Jesus from the young scouts who told them the Christmas story verbally at schools in the villages. Bishop Olivier Schmitthaeusler of the Apostolic Vicariate

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Church holds kite-flying competition

In celebrating New Year on 1st January 2020, Our Lady of the Smiles Parish (ChamkarTeang) oragnised a kite-flying competition involving 180 kites, ten ox-drawn wagons and ten racing horses. Residents from villages in Takeo province’s Tramkak district entered the competition. Joining the programme were bishop Olivier Schmitthaeusler of the Apostolic

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Church shares Christmas joy with prison inmates

In celebrating the recent Christmas feast, the Kampot Church in Phnom Penh diocese organized friendly talks with 974 inmates in the Kampot provincial prison on the morning of 9th January 2020 in the presence of Bishop Olivier Schmitthaeusler of the Apostolic Vicariate of Phnom Penh. Joining the bishop were Chan

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