1554 Fernando Mendez Pinto, Jesuit visits Cambodia. 1555 Gaspar de Cruz, Dominican lives at Court. XVII century Jesuits, Dominicans and Franciscans open first missions 1665 Fr Chevreuil MEP arrives in ...

Cambodian identity, culture and reconciliation were topics of discussion when a group of Catholic educators from Southeast and East Asian countries gathered for their annual conference. The conference ...

Fr. Olivier Schmitthaeusler invites the faithful to share "joys and sorrows" and "promote vocations." The priest has accepted the appointment as bishop "to serve with love" as a "foreigner who has ...

The sign before the Vietnamese Catholic church, written in Khmer, reads “The Lamb of God Factory Church,” in relation to the community’s former location next to a nearby brick factory. Credit: Peter ...

Kompong Cham (AsiaNews/Ucan) The Catholic Church in Cambodia is a Church of catechumens, of the youth, of collaboration and of hope, its leading bishop says. French-born Bishop Emile Destombes, ...

Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - In 1975, the young Cambodian priest Joseph Chmar Salas was appointed coadjutor of the Apostolic Vicar of Phnom Penh by Pope Paul VI. He was the first Cambodian bishop in ...

Father Figaredo has spent more than 40 years giving his life to the service of those most in need in Cambodia, especially to people maimed by anti-personnel mine explosions. Father Enrique “Kike” ...

Leaders of ASEACCU member-institutions, including UST Rector Very Rev. Fr. Richard G. Ang OP, PhD (second from right) A PROMISING group of Catholic educational institutions in Asia is restarting its ...

Cut off from the world, Cambodian churches emerged with new opportunities and challenges. When the world locked down in early 2020, orders to Cambodia’s thriving garment factories dropped, shutting ...

Approximately 150 people from Cambodia and abroad are participating in the three-day meeting organized by the Vatican’s Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue and other entities. Pope Leo XIV greets ...

With director Tom McCarthy already in town to begin shooting “Spotlight,” about the Boston Globe’s 2002 investigation into the Catholic Church’s sexual abuse scandal involving clergy, it’s worth ...