Lovely to see a picture of the floating church on the Tonle Sap lake, which I have visited a number of times. The Catholic Church in Cambodia is indeed very small, but punches well above its weight in terms of its contribution to society - in education, healthcare, and particularly support for people with disabilities. I am planning to make my fifth visit to Cambodia at the end of January - my parish is twinned with parishes in the NW of Cambodia, in the Apostolic Prefecture of Battambang. I know that the conflict with Thailand is having a serious effect on the many people in that part of Cambodia who go to work in Thailand. Either they have to return home, where there may be no work, or they are stuck in Thailand and cannot get back to visit their families. Note on Paul Tep Im Sotha, whom you mention, murdered by the Khmer Rouge. He was actually the first Apostolic Prefect of Battambang, so similar to a bishop, but in a missionary area that has not yet been raised to a diocese.
Lovely to see a picture of the floating church on the Tonle Sap lake, which I have visited a number of times. The Catholic Church in Cambodia is indeed very small, but punches well above its weight in terms of its contribution to society - in education, healthcare, and particularly support for people with disabilities. I am planning to make my fifth visit to Cambodia at the end of January - my parish is twinned with parishes in the NW of Cambodia, in the Apostolic Prefecture of Battambang. I know that the conflict with Thailand is having a serious effect on the many people in that part of Cambodia who go to work in Thailand. Either they have to return home, where there may be no work, or they are stuck in Thailand and cannot get back to visit their families. Note on Paul Tep Im Sotha, whom you mention, murdered by the Khmer Rouge. He was actually the first Apostolic Prefect of Battambang, so similar to a bishop, but in a missionary area that has not yet been raised to a diocese.