A DREAM IN THE MAKING FOR THE JESUITS IN CAMBODIA by Quyen Vu SJ Seven months have passed since I first arrived in Phnom Penh to begin my new Mission in the area of education, having just completed a previous mission in Timor Leste. The education system and challenges in both these countries are very […]

A few Jesuits came to Cambodia before the Khmer Rouge regime, mainly to serve the Chinese Catholic community in Phnom Penh but there was no official Jesuit mission in Cambodia until after the peace agreements were signed in 1991. However during the 1980s, Fr. Pierre Ceyrac S.J., a French Jesuit priest and long-term missionary from […]

“What is clear that the fruit of that discernment is that education is important for the future of Cambodia and the Society feels called to make a contribution in this area. I support and encourage this decision to explore some form of educational ministry in Cambodia”.