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- Dec 3, 2020
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U.S. priest finds his niche working in Bangkok with poorest of the poor
- Jun 28, 2020
Redemptorist Father Joe Maier, 80, opened his first school in Bangkok’s market-side slum district of Klong Toey in a swine slaughterhouse more than 40 years ago.
Pope says he is ‘scandalized’ by anti-migrant rhetoric
- Dec 6, 2019
Pope Francis told Jesuits in Thailand he was “scandalized” by some of the anti-migrant rhetoric he hears in Europe, and he is convinced people are being manipulated into thinking the only way they can preserve their lifestyles is by building walls.
In Thailand, Pope tells religions to work for peace; Catholic youth to hold firm to faith
- Nov 22, 2019
Speaking to people from 18 different religions on Friday, Pope Francis said that the complex challenges of the world today – including globalization, the rapid advances of technology and the persistence of civil conflicts resulting in migration, refugees, famine and war – makes the need for cooperation between religions all the more pressing.
Pope’s cousin takes star turn in Thailand as papal whisperer
- Nov 22, 2019
Sister Ana Rosa Sivori has taken something of a star turn during her second cousin’s visit to Thailand, assuming an unprecedented role for a woman as papal whisperer and translator, who doesn’t seem fazed that her charge is Pope Francis.
Christianity shouldn’t be ‘foreign,’ Pope Francis tells Thai Catholics
- Nov 22, 2019
“Let us give the faith a Thai face and flesh, which involves much more than making translations,” Pope Francis said. “It’s about letting the Gospel be stripped of fine but foreign garb.”
Pope tells Thailand’s Catholics to be ‘missionary disciples’ not ‘mercenaries of faith’
- Nov 21, 2019
Speaking to some 60,000 members of Thailand’s tiny Catholic community, Pope Francis on Thursday called them to be missionary disciples, explaining that being a “mercenary of the faith” does not compel others to convert.
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