Local priest worships, dines with the president
byWhile President Joe Biden was in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Nov. 12 for a special summit between the U.S. and the Association of Southeast Asian…
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Living Mission —
Life in Cambodia is improving
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When I worked in Hong Kong, several family and friends came to visit. Not so many have come to Cambodia, partly because many perceive…
Living Mission —
The kingdom of wonder
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For most of us, it is rather obvious that people in other countries do some things differently from the way we do them in…
Living Mission — Feudalism still survives
byFeudalism still survives. In 1555 the treaty called the Peace of Augsburg ended various religious conflicts that had erupted in the Germanic states after…
Living Mission — Death is universal, but funeral practices are different
byHuman beings around the world experience the same basic life events. The sequence, the length, the impact of events may vary, but most of…
Living Mission — Cambodia’s experience with COVID-19
byThe central notion of a pandemic is that a disease affects all or most nations around the world. Individual countries can be affected in…
Living Mission — Parish community is home away from home
byI came to Cambodia to work with deaf people and that is my main job, but because Maryknoll priests are native English speakers, the…
Living Mission: Medical care hit or miss in Cambodia
byIn many parts of the world, as COVID-19 rears its head, normal practices and ways of life have been changed or abandoned. Life in…
Living Mission – Cambodia’s struggle with COVID-19
byThe COVID-19 situation in Cambodia is rather fluid at the present time. The number of infections here is 107 and has been increasing slowly…
Living Mission – Cambodian parishes influenced by local culture
byIt might be assumed that parishes around the world are basically similar — and in the most general sense they are. They have a…