US Adventist Students Come to "Share Christ" in Siem Reap Orphanage

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Re: US Adventist Students Come to "Share Christ" in Siem Reap Orphanage

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I have a friend who owns one of these orphanages in Siem Reap. He has told me how it works.
Most of the time the orphanage is empty. Children are only brought in from the nearby village when they have a booking from a foreigner to visit the orphanage. The children get maybe as much as $2 each to attend.
They put on a big show for the foreigners and solicit additional donations, all of which goes into the owners pocket. Tuk-tuk drivers and others who bring foreigners to the orphanage get a 30% commission on all the money they can extract.
He says its a pretty good business and makes a good profit for him.

Its gratifying to learn that all these people not only came all the way from the USA but must have spent years learning Khmer so that they could preach to the Khmer people. Oh wait - they did preach in Khmer didnt they?
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Re: US Adventist Students Come to "Share Christ" in Siem Reap Orphanage

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The Catholics are also hard at work in the competition between foreign religions to convert the local population.

04/16/2019, 14.33
Cambodia’s small Church announces 294 baptisms on Easter night
This is “God’s work,” says the vicar of Phnom Penh, Bishop Schmitthaeusler, who urges the faithful to experience their mission as baptised and sent: “the Church has been, the Church is, the Church shall be.”

Phnom Penh (AsiaNews/ÉdA) – On Easter night, Cambodia’s Catholic community will celebrate the baptism of 294 people: 154 in the capital Phnom Penh, 80 in Battambang and 60 in Kampong Cham (capitals of their respective homonymous provinces), said Mgr Olivier Michel Marie Schmitthaeusler, apostolic vicar of Phnom Penh, on the occasion of the Chrism Mass celebrated on 9 April (pictures).

About 80 local priests took part in the service in which Mgr Schmitthaeusler urged the faithful to live their mission of baptised and sent, in accordance with the theme of the next Extraordinary Month of the Mission called by Pope Francis in 2017. ‘Baptised and sent: The Church of Christ on a mission in the world’ will be celebrated in October 2019.
http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Cambodia ... 46788.html
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