07/21/2010
AsiaNews.it
One hundred adults are baptised per year in the Apostolic Prefecture of Battambang, but more catechists are needed. Over 10 years Mgr. Enrique Figaredo Alvargonzales has founded schools, hospitals and centres to help the most marginalized classes of society. Bishop: "The priority is education and we must do more. I would say we are so far 50% successful”.
Phnom Penh (AsiaNews / Agencies) - "I see that people need education in Cambodia, so this is our priority”, says Mgr. Enrique Figaredo Alvargonzales (pictured), the Spanish Jesuit bishop, who for 10 years has headed of the Apostolic Prefecture of Battambang, in an interview published on the web site of the Catholic Church in Cambodia (http://catholiccambodia.org).
The Cambodian Church has about 19 thousand faithful and three districts: the Vicariate of Phnom Penh, the Prefecture of Kompong Cham and Battambang. The communist regime of Pol Pot between 1975 and 1979 has wiped out the Church's presence, destroying all the sacred buildings and preventing all religious practice. With the fall of the Khmer Rouge, religious freedom has returned to the country. The institutional presence of the church dates to 1992 when Mgr. Yves Ramousse became apostolic vicar of Phnom Penh.
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