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Cambodian Church provides a vocational program to 100 youths

The Cambodian Phnom Penh vicariate’s Call for Commission hosted vocation camping under the theme “Time in With Jesus” at Phnom Vor Natural Paradise Resort in Kep Province in southern Cambodia, about 171 kilometers from the metropolis of Phnom Penh. 100 young people from Phnom Penh vicariate’s nine pastoral districts attended

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Catholic Church commemorates 500 years of friendship in Cambodia

The Foreign Missions Society, the Cambodian Historians Association, and the Department of History held a conference entitled 500 Years of Friendship: The Church and the Kingdom of Cambodia on September 14. Nearly 80 students, academics, and pastors attended the conference to study the link between Cambodia and the Catholic Church

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Khmer’s first Jesuit-ordained priest

Bishop Olivier Schmitthaeusler, Apostolic Vicar of Phnom Penh, ordained Martin Damo Chour as the Society of Jesus’ first Khmer priest on August 19. More than 2,000 Catholics, local authorities, and clergy attended the ordination of the first Jesuit Cambodian at the Assumption Church in Battambang City, Battambang Province, approximately 291

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