Studi Indocinesi
martedì 8 dicembre 2015
martedì 24 novembre 2015
ASIA/CAMBOGIA - Il Giubileo della Misericordia nel segno dei martiri e degli ultimi della società
ASIA/CAMBOGIA - Il Giubileo della Misericordia nel segno dei martiri e degli ultimi della società
Phnom Penh – “In un mondo che soffre per guerre, violenza, odio, la misericordia è il modo in cui Dio si offre per riconciliare l'umanità e perché viviamo come fratelli e sorelle, nella pace e nell'armonia. In Cambogia accoglieremo questo tempo di grazia per rinnovarci spiritualmente, nella riconciliazione con Dio e con il prossimo”: lo scrive Sua Ecc. Mons. Olivier Schmitthaeusler, Viario Apostolico di Phnom Penh, in una lettera diffusa tra tutti i fedeli e inviata dal Vescovo al’Agenzia Fides.
Nella Chiesa locale, che ha vissuto nel 2014 “l'Anno della Carità”, si aprirà il 10 dicembre ufficialmente la Porta Santa nel Centro Pastorale del Vicariato di Phnom Penh, mentre il 13 dicembre ci sarà l’inaugurazione di una speciale mostra dedicata ai martiri cambogiani, e il 1° gennaio l’apertura della Porta Santa al Santuario della Madonna del Mekong. Ogni comunità del Vicariato è invitata a compiere un pellegrinaggio per l'Anno Santo in tutti e tre questi luoghi, mentre vari eventi sono previsti “per consentire di vivere una vera conversione interiore”, nota il Vescovo.Dato l’invito del Santo Padre a prepararsi “a vivere opere di misericordia corporali e spirituali”, la lettera invita tutti i fedeli a “essere segno dell’amore di Dio per ogni uomo, in particolare con la vicinanza e la presenza con i piccoli, i poveri gli ultimi, così numerosi nella nostra società”.
Un pensiero è rivolto a tutta la nazione : “Quest'anno sia un anno di riconciliazione nei nostri cuori, nelle nostre famiglie, nelle nostre comunità e nel nostro paese che sta per aprirsi la grande mercato comune dell’Asean” conclude il Vicario.
Phnom Penh – “In un mondo che soffre per guerre, violenza, odio, la misericordia è il modo in cui Dio si offre per riconciliare l'umanità e perché viviamo come fratelli e sorelle, nella pace e nell'armonia. In Cambogia accoglieremo questo tempo di grazia per rinnovarci spiritualmente, nella riconciliazione con Dio e con il prossimo”: lo scrive Sua Ecc. Mons. Olivier Schmitthaeusler, Viario Apostolico di Phnom Penh, in una lettera diffusa tra tutti i fedeli e inviata dal Vescovo al’Agenzia Fides.
Nella Chiesa locale, che ha vissuto nel 2014 “l'Anno della Carità”, si aprirà il 10 dicembre ufficialmente la Porta Santa nel Centro Pastorale del Vicariato di Phnom Penh, mentre il 13 dicembre ci sarà l’inaugurazione di una speciale mostra dedicata ai martiri cambogiani, e il 1° gennaio l’apertura della Porta Santa al Santuario della Madonna del Mekong. Ogni comunità del Vicariato è invitata a compiere un pellegrinaggio per l'Anno Santo in tutti e tre questi luoghi, mentre vari eventi sono previsti “per consentire di vivere una vera conversione interiore”, nota il Vescovo.Dato l’invito del Santo Padre a prepararsi “a vivere opere di misericordia corporali e spirituali”, la lettera invita tutti i fedeli a “essere segno dell’amore di Dio per ogni uomo, in particolare con la vicinanza e la presenza con i piccoli, i poveri gli ultimi, così numerosi nella nostra società”.
Un pensiero è rivolto a tutta la nazione : “Quest'anno sia un anno di riconciliazione nei nostri cuori, nelle nostre famiglie, nelle nostre comunità e nel nostro paese che sta per aprirsi la grande mercato comune dell’Asean” conclude il Vicario.
sabato 21 novembre 2015
La Saigon dei francesi muore lentamente: un altro edificio storico sarà demolito a HCMC
Le autorità della città approvano la demolizione di un vecchio edificio francese al 606 di Tran Hung Dao (già Boulevard Galliéni)
In April 2015, Saigoneer reported that the authorities were considering an application to destroy the old mansion at 606 Trần Hưng Đạo in order to make way for a new tower block. It is understood that city leaders have now given this plan the green light and demolition is expected to commence very soon.
According to local historians, 606 Trần Hưng Đạo was once the site of an old Khmer pagoda, but by 1932 that structure had been demolished to make way for the current building, an elegant villa built for the state-franchised charity lottery company known as the Société pour l’Amélioration Morale, Intellectuelle et Physique des Indigènes de Cochinchine (SAMIPIC).
Set up by decree of the Governor of Cochinchina in October 1927 to administer a 600,000-piastre state lottery, SAMIPIC was run by a committee which “grouped together the elite of Annamite society” (Gazette Coloniale, 1936). It sold two-piastre lottery tickets to the public and then donated a substantial part of its income to charitable, health and educational causes in Cochinchina. It also “organized conferences, and every year offered a number of scholarships in France and in the colony to the most deserving students”.
SAMIPIC’s achievements included setting up the Maison des Associations Annamites in Saigon in 1929 and funding the construction of the “Maison Indochinoise” at the Cité Universitaire de Paris, which was inaugurated on March 22, 1930 by French President Gaston Doumergue and the young King Bảo Đại.
SAMIPIC was initially housed in a small villa at 76 Rue de Lagrandière (Lý Tự Trọng), but on February 16, 1933, La Croix newspaper reported the inauguration of its brand new headquarters at 96 Boulevard Galliéni (now 606 Trần Hưng Đạo). The building was later described as “superb”, with “magnificent decor” (Écho Annamite, September 6, 1941).
After the departure of the French in 1954, the villa was acquired by the American government and became home to the Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG), which coordinated the supply of military hardware, training and assistance to the French and subsequently to the Republic of Vietnam. Because of its high profile, the villa was one of three US installations in the city targeted by the National Liberation Front on October 22, 1957.
In February 1962, following the arrival of the first US Army aviation units, MAAG became part of the Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV), which was set up to provide a more integrated command structure with full responsibility for all US military activities and operations in Vietnam.
At first, MACV staff shared the villa at 606 Trần Hưng Đạo with their MAAG colleagues, but in May 1962 they were given separate accommodation on Pasteur Street. From that date until 1966, the villa at 606 Trần Hưng Đạo was known as “MACV II”. MAAG survived as a separate entity until May 1964, when its functions were fully integrated into MACV.
In 1966, following the transfer of all MACV operations to the new “Pentagon East” complex at Tân Sơn Nhất Air Base, the villa at 606 Trần Hưng Đạo was vacated by the Americans and became the headquarters of the Republic of Korea Forces Vietnam, which remained at the villa until the signing of the Paris Peace Accords in 1973.
Until recently the villa at 606 Trần Hưng Đạo was home to several local businesses.
Tim Doling
Da Saigooner.com (http://saigoneer.com/saigon-buildings/5619-officials-approve-demolition-of-french-mansion-at-606-tran-hung-dao)
Il 20 ottobre ricorre la Giornata della Donna Vietnamita: 15 fotografie per celebrarla
Il 20 ottobre ricorre la Giornata della Donna Vietnamita:15 fotografie per celebrarla
Today marks the 85th Vietnamese Women's Day. A nationally observed holiday since 1930, October 20 commemorates the day upon which the country's Women's Union was officially established and recognized by the Communist Party of Vietnam.
Take a look at any chapter in Vietnam's history and women play a crucial role in the country's story, from Hai Ba Trung to Nguyen Thi Minh Khai to Vo Thi Sau.
Today, Vietnamese women continue to hold a significant place in local society and are often the ones who make the country's many small, family-owned businesses run.
Below is a collection photos celebrating the women of Vietnam.
Da: http://saigoneer.com/saigon-culture/5506-photos-15-old-photos-to-celebrate-vietnamese-women-s-day
martedì 23 giugno 2015
Aventure en Indochine (1946-1954) - Fr3 Documentaire 2015
L'histoire de la présence française en Extrême-Orient entre 1930 et 1950 à travers les destins de «petits blancs» partis y chercher l'aventure.
Diffusé sur France 3 le jeudi 28 mai 2015 à 23:40 - Durée : 1 h 30
Au lendemain de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, dans une Indochine pourtant marquée par des années de guerre et la montée de la contestation, des «petits blancs» vivent et travaillent, dans les banques ou encore les entreprises. Le documentaire part sur les traces de Jean, un jeune aventurier qui part tenter sa chance en Indochine en 1945. Sur sa route, il croise des hommes et des femmes qui constituent, comme lui, le ferment de la présence française en Indochine. Le récit des vies de ces grandes familles expatriées, et de ces marins, médecins, institutrices et autres soldats, permet de découvrir l'Indochine des années 20, 30 et 40.
Diffusé sur France 3 le jeudi 28 mai 2015 à 23:40 - Durée : 1 h 30
Au lendemain de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, dans une Indochine pourtant marquée par des années de guerre et la montée de la contestation, des «petits blancs» vivent et travaillent, dans les banques ou encore les entreprises. Le documentaire part sur les traces de Jean, un jeune aventurier qui part tenter sa chance en Indochine en 1945. Sur sa route, il croise des hommes et des femmes qui constituent, comme lui, le ferment de la présence française en Indochine. Le récit des vies de ces grandes familles expatriées, et de ces marins, médecins, institutrices et autres soldats, permet de découvrir l'Indochine des années 20, 30 et 40.
mercoledì 17 giugno 2015
L’Eglise du Cambodge ouvre le procès en béatification de 35 martyrs morts sous Pol Pot
| Mgr. Salas e alcuni dei 35 martiri di Cambogia |
Eglises d'Asie - Agence d'information des Missions Etrangères de Paris
L’Eglise du Cambodge ouvre le procès en béatification de 35 martyrs morts sous Pol Pot
17/06/2015
Alors que le pape François vient de signer le décret ouvrant la voie à la béatification de 17 martyrs de l’Eglise du Laos, les responsables de l’Eglise catholique au Cambodge lancent le processus qui devrait aboutir à la béatification de 35 martyrs, exécutés ou morts de faim et d’épuisement sous le régime de Pol Pot et des Khmers rouges, au pouvoir entre 1975 et 1979. Si la démarche aboutit, ce sera une première pour le Cambodge, pays qui, à ce jour, ne compte pas de bienheureux et de saints reconnus par l’Eglise.
Pour Mgr Olivier Schmitthaeusler, 44 ans, vicaire apostolique de Phnom Penh, et les évêques des deux autres circonscriptions ecclésiastiques du Cambodge, c’est l’aboutissement d’une démarche entreprise il y a quinze ans, lorsqu’en l’an 2000, en réponse à l’appel du pape Jean-Paul II de faire mémoire des martyrs et de tous ceux qui avaient souffert pour leur foi au cours du XXe siècle, un mémorial dédié aux martyrs du Cambodge avait été inauguré à Taing Kauk (Tang Kok), bourgade rurale chère au cœur de la petite communauté des chrétiens de ce pays.
Le site de Taing Kauk avait été choisi parce que c’est là qu’ont vécu sous le régime communiste des chrétiens de Phnom Penh, de Battambang et de Kompong Thom. C’est là que Mgr Joseph Chhmar Salas, le premier évêque cambodgien, a été déporté avec ses parents et proches et est mort de maladie et de faim en 1977, dans une pagode transformée en hôpital, à la lisière des trois diocèses de Phnom Penh, Battambang et Kompong Cham. C’est là que la croix pectorale de Mgr Salas avait été cachée sous un nid de poule avant d’être transportée à Phnom Penh en 1979 et transmise à Mgr Emile Destombes, coadjuteur de l’évêque de Phnom Penh, lors de son ordination épiscopale en 1997.
C’est donc à Taing Kauk que le vicaire apostolique de Phnom Penh, aux côtés de Mgr Antonysamy Surairaj, préfet apostolique de Kompong Cham, et de Mgr Enrique Figaredo, préfet apostolique de Battambang, se sont rendus le 1er mai dernier pour ouvrir officiellement la phase diocésaine du procès en béatification de 35 martyrs. Mille quatre cents fidèles des trois diocèses de l’Eglise du Cambodge étaient réunis avec eux, signifiant par leur nombre l’importance que revêt pour eux cette démarche.
A Eglises d’Asie, Mgr Schmitthaeusler explique que l’ouverture de la phase diocésaine du procès en béatification est en soi un aboutissement. « Pour une Eglise petite comme la nôtre et pauvre en moyens humains et matériels, un tel processus est complexe », précise-t-il, non sans ajouter que cela fait des années que, dans ce pays très jeune où la majorité de la population n’a pas connu le régime khmer rouge, le témoignage donné par les martyrs est transmis aux jeunes catéchumènes et aux jeunes baptisés.
Concrètement, c’est grâce au travail mené par Mgr Yves Ramousse, 87 ans, vicaire apostolique de Phnom Penh de 1962 à 1976 puis de 1992 à 2001, qu’une liste de 35 noms a pu être établie. Outre Mgr Joseph Chhmar Salas (1937-1977), des prêtres – dont cinq pères des Missions Etrangères de Paris –, des religieux et religieuses ainsi que des laïcs y figurent. Trois nationalités sont représentées : Cambodge, Vietnam et France.
L’actuel vicaire apostolique de Phnom Penh ajoute avoir envoyé un prêtre des Missions Etrangères de Thaïlande, en mission à Phnom Penh, étudier le droit canonique à Rome en 2012 ; ce missionnaire, le P. Paul Chatsirey Roeung, est le postulateur de la cause et suivra le dossier lorsque celui-ci sera transmis à la Congrégation pour les causes des saints, au Vatican.
Le 1er mai dernier, à Taing Kauk, Mgr Schmitthaeusler a expliqué aux catholiques rassemblés que toute cette démarche prendra très certainement des années avant d’aboutir, tant la compilation des documents relatifs aux 35 martyrs est difficile étant donné le contexte extrême où ils ont trouvé la mort. Mais il ne cache pas avoir été conforté par l’attention témoigné par le pape François envers cette cause. C’était lors des Journées asiatiques de la jeunesse en Corée du Sud ; le 15 août dernier, lors d’une rencontre avec la jeunesse catholique d’Asie, le pape avait explicitement encouragé l’Eglise du Cambodge à avancer dans cette cause et avait demandé au cardinal Angelo Amato, préfet de la Congrégation pour les causes des saints, de soutenir Mgr Schmitthaeusler dans ce travail.
A propos de ces martyrs, dans son homélie du 1er mai dernier, Mgr Schmitthaeusler déclarait : « En lisant (…) la liste de nos présumés martyrs, c’est le peuple de Dieu dans sa diversité que nous avons rencontrés. Pasteurs et serviteurs, évêques, prêtres, religieux et religieuses avec leurs frères et sœurs chrétiens ont donné ce qu’ils avaient de plus précieux : leur vie.
Pol Pot et les Khmers rouges ont pris leur biens, leur terre, leur métier, leurs églises, leurs écoles, leurs monastères. Mais pas leur vie éclairée par la foi et l’amour reçus le jour de leur baptême ! Oui, c’est ce peuple de vivant que nous célébrons aujourd’hui. C’est de ce peuple dont nous faisons partis. »
Dans une société à 95 % bouddhiste, la petite communauté catholique (autour de 22 000 fidèles) poursuit son chemin de renaissance après avoir été presque totalement anéantie par les persécutions des Khmers rouges et la guerre civile jusqu’en 1990.
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martedì 16 giugno 2015
Militari cinesi attaccano pescherecci di Hanoi. Completate le basi di Pechino nel mar Cinese meridionale (Asia News)
VIETNAM - CINA
Militari cinesi attaccano pescherecci di Hanoi. Completate le basi di Pechino nel mar Cinese meridionale
A pochi giorni da un bilaterale Cina-Vietnam, navi militari di Pechino hanno attaccato con cannoni d’acqua e rapinato due pescherecci di Hanoi nelle isole Paracel. Due pescatori sono rimasti feriti. Il Ministro degli esteri cinese avverte che i lavori nelle isole contese “saranno conclusi a giorni”.
Hanoi (AsiaNews/Agenzie) – Navi militari di Pechino sono tornate ad attaccare pescherecci provenienti dal Vietnam nei pressi delle isole Paracel, arcipelago conteso da entrambe le nazioni. Il 7 giugno scorso un’imbarcazione vietnamita è stata bersaglio di cannonate d’acqua da parte imbarcazioni cinesi. Negli scontri, due pescatori sono rimasti feriti. Bui Tan Doan, che ha riportato la frattura di una gamba, racconta all’agenzia Thanh Nien che il getto dei cannoni d’acqua è durato per due ore, inondando il peschereccio che ha rischiato di affondare.
Il 10 giugno si è verificato un secondo episodio, nel quale il capitano Nguyen Van Phu e dieci marinai sono stati rapinati da uomini della marina di Pechino. Quattro imbarcazioni cinesi hanno circondato il peschereccio, poi una dozzina di militari sono saliti a bordo iniziando a danneggiare la barca, distruggendo i walkie-talkie e le componenti elettroniche. Secondo un pescatore, “[i cinesi] ci hanno costretto a trasportare sulle loro navi tutto il pescato, che pesava circa 6 tonnellate”.
Non è la prima volta che la marina cinese tenta di scoraggiare pescatori stranieri nelle acque contese. Lo scorso aprile simili attacchi si sono verificati a danno di marinai filippini. Da tempo Hanoi e Manila contrastano con crescente vigore "l’imperialismo" di Pechino nei mari meridionale e orientale. Il governo cinese rivendica una fetta consistente di oceano, che comprende le Spratly e le Paracel, isole contese da anche da Taiwan, Filippine, Brunei e Malaysia. Le isole Paracel sono state occupate per intero dai cinesi nel 1974, quando hanno allontanato le truppe rimanenti del sud Vietnam.
Gli attacchi hanno innalzato la tensione proprio a ridosso del bilaterale Cina-Vietnam che si terrà dal 17 al 19 giugno. Il vice Primo ministro vietnamita Pham Binh Minh e il Ministro degli esteri voleranno a Pechino per l’ottavo incontro della Commissione per la guida alla cooperazione bilaterale tra i due Paesi. Nell’ultimo summit, ad ottobre 2014, i due governi si erano impegnati a “controllare e gestire le loro divergenze marittime”.
Intanto oggi, il ministro degli esteri cinese Wang Yi ha dichiarato che le infrastrutture che Pechino sta costruendo da mesi nelle acque contese, “nei prossimi giorni” saranno concluse. Secondo Wang, le basi costruite saranno utili per le ricerche e i soccorsi marittimi, la protezione ambientale e gli studi scientifici. Il capo del dicastero ha ribadito che le azioni di Pechino sono legali, giustificate e entro i propositi della sovranità cinese nell’area.
Il timore degli Stati del sud-est asiatico e degli Stati Uniti è che le isole artificiali cinesi possano essere utilizzate per scopi militari e per imporre il controllo di Pechino sulla navigazione nel Mar Cinese meridionale, area ricchissima di petrolio e gas naturale, con un volume di affari annuo superiore ai 5mila miliardi di dollari.
Militari cinesi attaccano pescherecci di Hanoi. Completate le basi di Pechino nel mar Cinese meridionale
A pochi giorni da un bilaterale Cina-Vietnam, navi militari di Pechino hanno attaccato con cannoni d’acqua e rapinato due pescherecci di Hanoi nelle isole Paracel. Due pescatori sono rimasti feriti. Il Ministro degli esteri cinese avverte che i lavori nelle isole contese “saranno conclusi a giorni”.
Hanoi (AsiaNews/Agenzie) – Navi militari di Pechino sono tornate ad attaccare pescherecci provenienti dal Vietnam nei pressi delle isole Paracel, arcipelago conteso da entrambe le nazioni. Il 7 giugno scorso un’imbarcazione vietnamita è stata bersaglio di cannonate d’acqua da parte imbarcazioni cinesi. Negli scontri, due pescatori sono rimasti feriti. Bui Tan Doan, che ha riportato la frattura di una gamba, racconta all’agenzia Thanh Nien che il getto dei cannoni d’acqua è durato per due ore, inondando il peschereccio che ha rischiato di affondare.
Il 10 giugno si è verificato un secondo episodio, nel quale il capitano Nguyen Van Phu e dieci marinai sono stati rapinati da uomini della marina di Pechino. Quattro imbarcazioni cinesi hanno circondato il peschereccio, poi una dozzina di militari sono saliti a bordo iniziando a danneggiare la barca, distruggendo i walkie-talkie e le componenti elettroniche. Secondo un pescatore, “[i cinesi] ci hanno costretto a trasportare sulle loro navi tutto il pescato, che pesava circa 6 tonnellate”.
Non è la prima volta che la marina cinese tenta di scoraggiare pescatori stranieri nelle acque contese. Lo scorso aprile simili attacchi si sono verificati a danno di marinai filippini. Da tempo Hanoi e Manila contrastano con crescente vigore "l’imperialismo" di Pechino nei mari meridionale e orientale. Il governo cinese rivendica una fetta consistente di oceano, che comprende le Spratly e le Paracel, isole contese da anche da Taiwan, Filippine, Brunei e Malaysia. Le isole Paracel sono state occupate per intero dai cinesi nel 1974, quando hanno allontanato le truppe rimanenti del sud Vietnam.
Gli attacchi hanno innalzato la tensione proprio a ridosso del bilaterale Cina-Vietnam che si terrà dal 17 al 19 giugno. Il vice Primo ministro vietnamita Pham Binh Minh e il Ministro degli esteri voleranno a Pechino per l’ottavo incontro della Commissione per la guida alla cooperazione bilaterale tra i due Paesi. Nell’ultimo summit, ad ottobre 2014, i due governi si erano impegnati a “controllare e gestire le loro divergenze marittime”.
Intanto oggi, il ministro degli esteri cinese Wang Yi ha dichiarato che le infrastrutture che Pechino sta costruendo da mesi nelle acque contese, “nei prossimi giorni” saranno concluse. Secondo Wang, le basi costruite saranno utili per le ricerche e i soccorsi marittimi, la protezione ambientale e gli studi scientifici. Il capo del dicastero ha ribadito che le azioni di Pechino sono legali, giustificate e entro i propositi della sovranità cinese nell’area.
Il timore degli Stati del sud-est asiatico e degli Stati Uniti è che le isole artificiali cinesi possano essere utilizzate per scopi militari e per imporre il controllo di Pechino sulla navigazione nel Mar Cinese meridionale, area ricchissima di petrolio e gas naturale, con un volume di affari annuo superiore ai 5mila miliardi di dollari.
The martyrdom of Fr. Rapin, the seed of new life for the mission of the Church in Cambodia
40 years after his martyrdom, the French missionary is still remembered as "the good shepherd". From the beginning of his mission to the war, until his death at the hands of the Khmer Rouge. His blood is a "seed" for new Christians. Today, his mission is alive and growing. The story of a PIME priest in Cambodia.
Phnom Penh (AsiaNews) - He only worked in Kdol Leu for three years, but people loved Fr. Pierre Rapin very much and even today, after forty years, remember him as the good shepherd who, in the footsteps of Jesus, gave his life for his sheep (cfr. Jn. 10:11).
Pierre was born July 7, 1926 in the farming village of Boupere in Vendee (France). Son of farmers, he was the third of five children. From an early age he helped his parents in the fields and in the breeding of cows and chickens. Every morning, before dawn, he lent a hand to help in the milking. He loved manual work particularly repairing broken things, such as the old grandfather clock in the house. He was also artistic, loved to sing, and together with his siblings, their songs would lighten the family atmosphere of their home.
Daily prayer and Sunday Mass were part of their rhythm of life. Already as teenagers, Pierre and his siblings were actively involved in the Young Christian Workers. When Pierre was 18 years old, his sister Maria decided to consecrate herself as a religious. A year later, it was the turn of his younger brother, Claude, to make the announcement of wanting to enter the seminary. Their parents put up no opposition. They may have been losing much needed man power on the farm, but they willingly accepted their children's choice to give themselves completely to the Lord.
At the age of 21 years, Pierre too decided to enter the seminary. Nine years later, with his brother Claude, he was ordained a priest of the Paris Foreign Missions (MEP) and immediately sent as a missionary to Cambodia.
On mission in Cambodia
On arriving in Phnom Penh, Fr. Rapin immediatley dedicated himself to mastering the Khmer and Vietnamese languages, as the Church in Cambodia was mostly established by Vietnamese immigrants. A year later he was sent on mission to Piem Chom, in the east, near the border with Vietnam.
For 10 years he devoted himself to the service of the Christian community there, committed to making known the Lord and His Gospel. He was also dedicated to improving the living condition of the people: he introduced the breeding of chickens and cultivation of vegetables, he created a cooperative for the breeding of silkworms.
Fr. Pierre was concerned with being as close as possible to his Christians, often going to visit them. On one of these occasions, he ran into a very poor family and was struck by the small Ke, who because of poverty could not go to school. Fr. Rapin asked his mother's permission to take him back to his mission, and from then on the child became like a son for him.
In 1969 he was assigned to a new mission in the village of Ksach Proceh (today Kdol Leu), 40 km north of Kompong Cham, seat of the diocese. There a young Vietnamese priest, Peter Le Van Dung at Ksach Proceh, who had come to study the Khmer language. The Christian community numbered about a thousand: Vietnamese for the majority, and a hundred Khmer. On Sunday, before Mass, the two groups would pray separately in their native language and then gather together for the celebration of the Eucharist in Latin.
As he had done in Piem Cho, Fr. Rapin is dedicated himself to the human and spiritual development of Christians. He visited the sick and poor families. With the help of Ke he founded a chicken farm with several thousand chickens, the idea being to extend this activity to the entire village as a livelihood for families. A lady jokingly began to call him "Father Hen eggs ", a nickname that has stuck to this day!
There was also another Christian community, on the other side of the Mekong River, which Fr. Rapin was responsible for. This is the area of Bong Ket, where there were several rubber plantations owned by the French colonizers. The small church, on Sunday, hosted an assembly of Khmer, Vietnamese and French faithful.Thus Fr.. Rapin gave his homily in three languages!
The war
He had not been in Cambodia even a year, when war broke out. General Lon Nol, backed by the Americans engaged in the war in neighboring Vietnam, taking power in a coup against the pro-communist King Sihanouk.
The mission's activities were severely curtailed, and as early as May 1970 the Khmer Rouge along with Vietkong, enemies of Lon Nol, invaded the Krouchmar area where Fr. Rapin worked. All of the French were forced to flee. Msgr. Andre Lesouef, the apostolic prefect of Kompong Cham, gathered his missionaries to decide what to do. It was decided that the younger priests were to go to Phnom Penh where the situation is calmer, while the older ones would be allowed freedom of choice.
Fr. Rapin returned to his village to seek the advice of his Christian community. He was undecided what to do, at first thinking it would be more appropriate to leave. However, when the community asked him to stay with them, he changed his mind. So he wrote a note to Fr. François Ponchaud, who was just across the river at that time and was organizing the mass evacuation of Vietnamese Christians on a large barge (the Nationalist government of Lon Nol was becoming increasingly ruthless and calling on citizens to "kill the Vietnamese"). In the note, Fr. Rapin wrote: "The Christians have asked me to stay, it is God's will".
A few days later, the Khmer Rouge organize a camp in Kdol Leu. In June, a reconnaissance plane photographs Fr. Rapin in his house along with Vietkong soldiers. The plane flew over the area several times, the Khmer Rouge became suspicious and ratcheted up pressure on Fr. Rapin questioning him for an entire week.
In early August, the government air force started to carpet bomb the Krouchmar area, considered a hotbed of Vietkong and Khmer Rouge. The mission is hit several times: the church, rectory, school and the adjoining house of the Sisters of Providence ... everything is destroyed. The two priests go to live in a hut and support themselves with the proceeds of their poultry farm. Although the Khmer Rouge along with Vietkong have taken control of the area, Fr. Rapin and Fr. Le Van Dung are allowed to continue their ministry with people without any major problems.
The Mass is celebrated in homes with wine made from wild grapes. Once, even a bottle of champagne was smuggled out to them hidden in the "trunk" of a banana tree! In some cases the Vietkong allowed the two priests to cycle to visit Christians farther afield: Fr. Le Van Dung was permitted to go to Chhlong and Kratie where the Christians had been orphaned fo their priest, Fr. Cadour, killed a few months earlier. In January 1970 three Vietnamese nuns from the town of Snuol, close to Vietnam find refuge in Kdol Leu. Despite the school and convent having been destroyed, the nuns obtained permission to teach children in some huts.
In early 1972, the political situation worsened. The revolutionary forces seized the Bibles and forced Fr. Rapin to hand over the written text of each homily to be censored. The sisters are banned from providing any form of education. Fr. Rapin promises the Christians: "I will stay as long as there is even one of you!".
His death
On January 25, 1972 Fr. Michel Tan, a Vietnamese priest in charge of the community of Prek Kak, across the Mekong in front Kdol Leu, died. Officially he had a heart attack. That same day, Fr. Le Van Dung who had gone to visit the Christians of Kratie, is picked up by Vietkong soldiers. Fr. Le Van Dung realizes that his end had come and he put on his priestly robes. A few days after being imprisoned in a school, he was moved about 2 km outside the city. The night of March 21, he was led away with his hands tied. The next day, a Christian, who used to bring him food to eat, saw a man wearing Fr. Le Van Dung's clothes, but it was not the priest, who perhaps had been killed the night before.
In the night between February 23 and 24, 1972 a mine, planted by the Khmer Rouge, next to Fr. Rapin's hut exploded while he is sleeping. The missionary did not die but his legs were seriously wounded. Having lost consciousness, Fr. Rapin called Ke, who was sleeping nearby, and asks: "Ke dear, what happened? They planted a bomb, didn't they? ". "Yes father - responds Ke - you know that they did it to kill you." "My son ... if those who wanted to kill me are captured, forgive them, do them no harm! Revenge is useless. Dearest son ... have faith in God ... I loved our Christians so dearly ... ".
At the sound of the explosion, the Christians were woken up with a start and, alarmed, wondered what happened. At the news that Fr. Rapin had been targeted, they run to his hut. There they find the priest lying prostrate on the ground while Ke and his wife are desperately trying to save him. Everyone wants to help. Someone picks up the pieces of cloth with Fr. Rapin's blood, and preserved them as the relics of a martyr.
The Khmer Rouge also arrived, forcing Christians to bring Fr. Rapin to Krouchmar hospital, and Ke along with other young people carry him on a stretcher to the hospital 9 km away. They arrived around 7 in the morning, three of them remaining with Fr. Rapin, while the others returned to the village to inform the rest of the people.
The doctors did not seem to want to bother with the missionary, and only after the constant appeals of the Christians showed some interest prescribing a list of 30 drugs! The community galvanized themselves to raise funds to pay for the medicine and managed to cover the cost of at least 20. Fr. Rapin's condition improved, but only fractionally.
At 2 pm that afternoon, the Khmer Rouge arrived and took Fr. Rapin away with the claim that they could better care for the missionary but forbidding anyone from accompanying him. The Christians put up a strong opposition: "If there is no one with him, father surely die!". "You are just ungrateful! - some Vietkong violently respond - We want to help you and you can only complain". So the Khmer Rouge put Fr. Rapin on a trailer pulled by a bicycle and took him to their hospital.
But by 7 that evening they were already back to hand over the body of the beloved priest to his community. The Christians were deeply shocked because the missionary's condition had not been grave enough to indicate imminent death. Rumors began to circulate that Fr. Rapin had been injected with poison.
Fr. Rapin's body was carried to a small school that had been transformed into a makeshift mortuary chapel. Many Christians came to kneel before the mortal remains of their father who had given his life for them. The next day his body was buried in a nearby place.
From that moment on, the Ksach Proceh / Kdol Leu mission was without a pastor for more than twenty years. The Vietnamese Christians took refuge in Vietnam. Only the Khmer Christians remained forced underground, praying secretly in their homes or in the silence of the rice fields. Then in 1992, Msgr. Andre Lesouef, returned to Cambodia after the signing of peace treaties, and immediately dispatched catechists to resume contact with the Christians of Kdol Leu. Since then several priests, religious sisters and lay faithful have in turn contributed to resurrecting this community that seemed to have been destroyed.
Today the Kdol Leu mission is alive and growing. The blood shed by Fr. Rapin became the seed of live for new Christians. In 2001 Fr. Rapin's remains were exhumed and translated into a stupa in the new land of the mission. Today they have found their final resting place in the funeral chapel dedicated to him, next to the church of Kdol Leu.
Thanks be to God.
by Luca Bolelli/Asia News
Read also: http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Fr.-Pierre-Rapin,-martyred-under-the-Khmer-Rouge,-alive-in-Cambodia%E2%80%99s-Catholic-community-26784.html
Fr. Luca Bolelli, a native of Bologna and a priest of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions, has been in Cambodia for eight years.
Phnom Penh (AsiaNews) - He only worked in Kdol Leu for three years, but people loved Fr. Pierre Rapin very much and even today, after forty years, remember him as the good shepherd who, in the footsteps of Jesus, gave his life for his sheep (cfr. Jn. 10:11).
Pierre was born July 7, 1926 in the farming village of Boupere in Vendee (France). Son of farmers, he was the third of five children. From an early age he helped his parents in the fields and in the breeding of cows and chickens. Every morning, before dawn, he lent a hand to help in the milking. He loved manual work particularly repairing broken things, such as the old grandfather clock in the house. He was also artistic, loved to sing, and together with his siblings, their songs would lighten the family atmosphere of their home.
Daily prayer and Sunday Mass were part of their rhythm of life. Already as teenagers, Pierre and his siblings were actively involved in the Young Christian Workers. When Pierre was 18 years old, his sister Maria decided to consecrate herself as a religious. A year later, it was the turn of his younger brother, Claude, to make the announcement of wanting to enter the seminary. Their parents put up no opposition. They may have been losing much needed man power on the farm, but they willingly accepted their children's choice to give themselves completely to the Lord.
At the age of 21 years, Pierre too decided to enter the seminary. Nine years later, with his brother Claude, he was ordained a priest of the Paris Foreign Missions (MEP) and immediately sent as a missionary to Cambodia.
On mission in Cambodia
On arriving in Phnom Penh, Fr. Rapin immediatley dedicated himself to mastering the Khmer and Vietnamese languages, as the Church in Cambodia was mostly established by Vietnamese immigrants. A year later he was sent on mission to Piem Chom, in the east, near the border with Vietnam.
For 10 years he devoted himself to the service of the Christian community there, committed to making known the Lord and His Gospel. He was also dedicated to improving the living condition of the people: he introduced the breeding of chickens and cultivation of vegetables, he created a cooperative for the breeding of silkworms.
Fr. Pierre was concerned with being as close as possible to his Christians, often going to visit them. On one of these occasions, he ran into a very poor family and was struck by the small Ke, who because of poverty could not go to school. Fr. Rapin asked his mother's permission to take him back to his mission, and from then on the child became like a son for him.
In 1969 he was assigned to a new mission in the village of Ksach Proceh (today Kdol Leu), 40 km north of Kompong Cham, seat of the diocese. There a young Vietnamese priest, Peter Le Van Dung at Ksach Proceh, who had come to study the Khmer language. The Christian community numbered about a thousand: Vietnamese for the majority, and a hundred Khmer. On Sunday, before Mass, the two groups would pray separately in their native language and then gather together for the celebration of the Eucharist in Latin.
As he had done in Piem Cho, Fr. Rapin is dedicated himself to the human and spiritual development of Christians. He visited the sick and poor families. With the help of Ke he founded a chicken farm with several thousand chickens, the idea being to extend this activity to the entire village as a livelihood for families. A lady jokingly began to call him "Father Hen eggs ", a nickname that has stuck to this day!
There was also another Christian community, on the other side of the Mekong River, which Fr. Rapin was responsible for. This is the area of Bong Ket, where there were several rubber plantations owned by the French colonizers. The small church, on Sunday, hosted an assembly of Khmer, Vietnamese and French faithful.Thus Fr.. Rapin gave his homily in three languages!
The war
He had not been in Cambodia even a year, when war broke out. General Lon Nol, backed by the Americans engaged in the war in neighboring Vietnam, taking power in a coup against the pro-communist King Sihanouk.
The mission's activities were severely curtailed, and as early as May 1970 the Khmer Rouge along with Vietkong, enemies of Lon Nol, invaded the Krouchmar area where Fr. Rapin worked. All of the French were forced to flee. Msgr. Andre Lesouef, the apostolic prefect of Kompong Cham, gathered his missionaries to decide what to do. It was decided that the younger priests were to go to Phnom Penh where the situation is calmer, while the older ones would be allowed freedom of choice.
Fr. Rapin returned to his village to seek the advice of his Christian community. He was undecided what to do, at first thinking it would be more appropriate to leave. However, when the community asked him to stay with them, he changed his mind. So he wrote a note to Fr. François Ponchaud, who was just across the river at that time and was organizing the mass evacuation of Vietnamese Christians on a large barge (the Nationalist government of Lon Nol was becoming increasingly ruthless and calling on citizens to "kill the Vietnamese"). In the note, Fr. Rapin wrote: "The Christians have asked me to stay, it is God's will".
A few days later, the Khmer Rouge organize a camp in Kdol Leu. In June, a reconnaissance plane photographs Fr. Rapin in his house along with Vietkong soldiers. The plane flew over the area several times, the Khmer Rouge became suspicious and ratcheted up pressure on Fr. Rapin questioning him for an entire week.
In early August, the government air force started to carpet bomb the Krouchmar area, considered a hotbed of Vietkong and Khmer Rouge. The mission is hit several times: the church, rectory, school and the adjoining house of the Sisters of Providence ... everything is destroyed. The two priests go to live in a hut and support themselves with the proceeds of their poultry farm. Although the Khmer Rouge along with Vietkong have taken control of the area, Fr. Rapin and Fr. Le Van Dung are allowed to continue their ministry with people without any major problems.
The Mass is celebrated in homes with wine made from wild grapes. Once, even a bottle of champagne was smuggled out to them hidden in the "trunk" of a banana tree! In some cases the Vietkong allowed the two priests to cycle to visit Christians farther afield: Fr. Le Van Dung was permitted to go to Chhlong and Kratie where the Christians had been orphaned fo their priest, Fr. Cadour, killed a few months earlier. In January 1970 three Vietnamese nuns from the town of Snuol, close to Vietnam find refuge in Kdol Leu. Despite the school and convent having been destroyed, the nuns obtained permission to teach children in some huts.
In early 1972, the political situation worsened. The revolutionary forces seized the Bibles and forced Fr. Rapin to hand over the written text of each homily to be censored. The sisters are banned from providing any form of education. Fr. Rapin promises the Christians: "I will stay as long as there is even one of you!".
His death
On January 25, 1972 Fr. Michel Tan, a Vietnamese priest in charge of the community of Prek Kak, across the Mekong in front Kdol Leu, died. Officially he had a heart attack. That same day, Fr. Le Van Dung who had gone to visit the Christians of Kratie, is picked up by Vietkong soldiers. Fr. Le Van Dung realizes that his end had come and he put on his priestly robes. A few days after being imprisoned in a school, he was moved about 2 km outside the city. The night of March 21, he was led away with his hands tied. The next day, a Christian, who used to bring him food to eat, saw a man wearing Fr. Le Van Dung's clothes, but it was not the priest, who perhaps had been killed the night before.
In the night between February 23 and 24, 1972 a mine, planted by the Khmer Rouge, next to Fr. Rapin's hut exploded while he is sleeping. The missionary did not die but his legs were seriously wounded. Having lost consciousness, Fr. Rapin called Ke, who was sleeping nearby, and asks: "Ke dear, what happened? They planted a bomb, didn't they? ". "Yes father - responds Ke - you know that they did it to kill you." "My son ... if those who wanted to kill me are captured, forgive them, do them no harm! Revenge is useless. Dearest son ... have faith in God ... I loved our Christians so dearly ... ".
At the sound of the explosion, the Christians were woken up with a start and, alarmed, wondered what happened. At the news that Fr. Rapin had been targeted, they run to his hut. There they find the priest lying prostrate on the ground while Ke and his wife are desperately trying to save him. Everyone wants to help. Someone picks up the pieces of cloth with Fr. Rapin's blood, and preserved them as the relics of a martyr.
The Khmer Rouge also arrived, forcing Christians to bring Fr. Rapin to Krouchmar hospital, and Ke along with other young people carry him on a stretcher to the hospital 9 km away. They arrived around 7 in the morning, three of them remaining with Fr. Rapin, while the others returned to the village to inform the rest of the people.
The doctors did not seem to want to bother with the missionary, and only after the constant appeals of the Christians showed some interest prescribing a list of 30 drugs! The community galvanized themselves to raise funds to pay for the medicine and managed to cover the cost of at least 20. Fr. Rapin's condition improved, but only fractionally.
At 2 pm that afternoon, the Khmer Rouge arrived and took Fr. Rapin away with the claim that they could better care for the missionary but forbidding anyone from accompanying him. The Christians put up a strong opposition: "If there is no one with him, father surely die!". "You are just ungrateful! - some Vietkong violently respond - We want to help you and you can only complain". So the Khmer Rouge put Fr. Rapin on a trailer pulled by a bicycle and took him to their hospital.
But by 7 that evening they were already back to hand over the body of the beloved priest to his community. The Christians were deeply shocked because the missionary's condition had not been grave enough to indicate imminent death. Rumors began to circulate that Fr. Rapin had been injected with poison.
Fr. Rapin's body was carried to a small school that had been transformed into a makeshift mortuary chapel. Many Christians came to kneel before the mortal remains of their father who had given his life for them. The next day his body was buried in a nearby place.
From that moment on, the Ksach Proceh / Kdol Leu mission was without a pastor for more than twenty years. The Vietnamese Christians took refuge in Vietnam. Only the Khmer Christians remained forced underground, praying secretly in their homes or in the silence of the rice fields. Then in 1992, Msgr. Andre Lesouef, returned to Cambodia after the signing of peace treaties, and immediately dispatched catechists to resume contact with the Christians of Kdol Leu. Since then several priests, religious sisters and lay faithful have in turn contributed to resurrecting this community that seemed to have been destroyed.
Today the Kdol Leu mission is alive and growing. The blood shed by Fr. Rapin became the seed of live for new Christians. In 2001 Fr. Rapin's remains were exhumed and translated into a stupa in the new land of the mission. Today they have found their final resting place in the funeral chapel dedicated to him, next to the church of Kdol Leu.
Thanks be to God.
by Luca Bolelli/Asia News
Read also: http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Fr.-Pierre-Rapin,-martyred-under-the-Khmer-Rouge,-alive-in-Cambodia%E2%80%99s-Catholic-community-26784.html
Fr. Luca Bolelli, a native of Bologna and a priest of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions, has been in Cambodia for eight years.
Aperto il processo diocesano di beatificazione dei martiri cambogiani - Agenzia Fides
Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - La Chiesa cambogiana ha ufficialmente aperto la fase diocesana del processo di beatificazione di 35 martiri, uccisi o lasciati morire durante la persecuzione subita dalla Chiesa sotto il regime di Pol Pot e dei khmer rossi. Lo ha riferito all'Agenzia Fides p. Gustavo Adrian Benitez, PIME, Direttore nazionale delle Pontificie Opere Missionarie per la Conferenza episcopale di Laos e Cambogia. I 35 sono morti tra il 1970 ed il 1977, e sono nativi di Cambogia, Vietnam e Francia.
Il Direttore delle POM informa Fides: “Si tratta del Vescovo cambogiano Joseph Chhmar Salas e di 34 compagni, tra preti, laici, catechisti, missionari, tra i quali alcuni membri della congregazione delle Missioni Estere di Parigi (MEP)”. La celebrazione di solenne apertura del processo si è svolta all'inizio di maggio a Tangkok, villaggio nella provincia di Kompong Thom, ed è stata presieduta dal Vescovo Olivier Schmitthaeusler MEP, Vicario Apostolico di Phnom Penh, alla presenza di numerosi fedeli, sacerdoti, religiosi, missionari, in rappresentanza di tutta la Chiesa cambogiana.
“Con l'inizio del processo, è stata creata una commissione che raccoglierà tutte le testimonianze sulla morte dei 35, alcuni uccisi, altri lasciati morire di fame e di stenti” spiega p. Benitez. L'apertura del processo “è importante a livello storico, perchè aiuterà i cambogiani a ricostruire la storia personale e le loro radici” afferma il Direttore, ma “ha soprattutto valore spirituale: la Chiesa in Cambogia, annullata negli uomini e nelle strutture, ha ripreso a vivere e a crescere". "Riguardando la situazione della Chiesa cambogiana prima, durante e dopo il regime di Pol Pot, si ha la certezza che quei pochi cristiani e martiri coraggiosi hanno mantenuto accesa la luce della fede. La grazia di Dio ha agito anche durante quegli anni bui. E sul sangue di questi martiri, oggi la Chiesa rinasce” conclude p. Benitez.
Una volta conclusa la fase diocesana del processo, se l'esito dell'istruttoria sarà ritenuto positivo, la documentazione verrà inviata in Vaticano, alla Congregazione per le cause dei Santi, che ne curerà la seconda fase. (PA) (Agenzia Fides 16/6/2015)
Il Direttore delle POM informa Fides: “Si tratta del Vescovo cambogiano Joseph Chhmar Salas e di 34 compagni, tra preti, laici, catechisti, missionari, tra i quali alcuni membri della congregazione delle Missioni Estere di Parigi (MEP)”. La celebrazione di solenne apertura del processo si è svolta all'inizio di maggio a Tangkok, villaggio nella provincia di Kompong Thom, ed è stata presieduta dal Vescovo Olivier Schmitthaeusler MEP, Vicario Apostolico di Phnom Penh, alla presenza di numerosi fedeli, sacerdoti, religiosi, missionari, in rappresentanza di tutta la Chiesa cambogiana.
“Con l'inizio del processo, è stata creata una commissione che raccoglierà tutte le testimonianze sulla morte dei 35, alcuni uccisi, altri lasciati morire di fame e di stenti” spiega p. Benitez. L'apertura del processo “è importante a livello storico, perchè aiuterà i cambogiani a ricostruire la storia personale e le loro radici” afferma il Direttore, ma “ha soprattutto valore spirituale: la Chiesa in Cambogia, annullata negli uomini e nelle strutture, ha ripreso a vivere e a crescere". "Riguardando la situazione della Chiesa cambogiana prima, durante e dopo il regime di Pol Pot, si ha la certezza che quei pochi cristiani e martiri coraggiosi hanno mantenuto accesa la luce della fede. La grazia di Dio ha agito anche durante quegli anni bui. E sul sangue di questi martiri, oggi la Chiesa rinasce” conclude p. Benitez.
Una volta conclusa la fase diocesana del processo, se l'esito dell'istruttoria sarà ritenuto positivo, la documentazione verrà inviata in Vaticano, alla Congregazione per le cause dei Santi, che ne curerà la seconda fase. (PA) (Agenzia Fides 16/6/2015)
lunedì 15 giugno 2015
Sre Ampil Archaeological Project | Center for Khmer Studies
Sre Ampil Archaeological Project
Sre Ampil village, located in Chheutil commune, Ken Svay district, Kandal province, has been identified as an archaeological site of note by such eminent scholars as George Cœdès and Etienne Aymonier. Sre Ampil is believed to have developed in the prehistoric period and may have continued to play a role throughout the Angkorian and post-Angkorian eras.
In its mission to build the capacity of young Cambodians engaged in research, the Center for Khmer Studies is proud to have been the principal funder of this project. The Sre Ampil Archaeology Project is distinctive, not only in its aims of generating new scientific knowledge of pre-Angkor Cambodia, but also as an archaeological project conceived, supervised, managed and implemented entirely by Cambodians.
Findings
The results of Sre Ampil pottery analysis shows a relationship between the site and with Angkor Borei and Cheung Ek in different periods. Although C14 dating of the Sre Ampil site has not being done yet, the similarity of its pottery with that from Angkor Borei shows evidence of interaction (e.g. trade exchange) between those two sites. Pottery of the Sre Ampil site has its similarity with the pottery from Angkor Borei in the 3rd phase (dating was done by Mirriam Stark) which is dated from 3rd century to 6th century AD. Moreover spouts have been collected through the layers of the excavation. Collected spout is the type of Candi found at Angkor Borei. The fineware of the Sre Ampil is also similar in characteristic with the fineware from Angkor Borei. This site may have developed in between 3rd-6th century AD.
The Sre Ampil site also has interaction with Cheung Ek site. Surface collection and the upper layers consist of pottery originating from Cheung Ek site. Spatial factors clearly defined their relationship. These two sites could be reached by water transportation as the site could be accessible by the Lower Mekong and Bassac Rivers.
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CALL FOR PAPERS | Center for Khmer Studies
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CALL FOR PAPERS
6th International Conference on
The History of Medicine in Southeast Asia
(HOMSEA 2016)
To be held in Siem Reap, Cambodia
13-15 January 2016
Conference Host:
Center for Khmer Studies (CKS), Siem Reap (Cambodia)
The History of Medicine in Southeast Asia
(HOMSEA 2016)
To be held in Siem Reap, Cambodia
13-15 January 2016
Conference Host:
Center for Khmer Studies (CKS), Siem Reap (Cambodia)
http://www.khmerstudies.org
With support from:
Center for Khmer Studies (Cambodia)
The Canada Research Chair in Health Care Pluralism, Université de Montréal (Canada)
University of Sydney (Australia)
Tembusu College at National University of Singapore (Singapore)
Center for Khmer Studies (Cambodia)
The Canada Research Chair in Health Care Pluralism, Université de Montréal (Canada)
University of Sydney (Australia)
Tembusu College at National University of Singapore (Singapore)
Program Committee:
Dr. Krisna Uk, Center for Khmer Studies, Cambodia
Prof. Laurence Monnais, Université de Montréal, Canada
Assoc. Prof. Hans Pols, University of Sydney, Australia
Dr. Mitch Aso, University at Albany, SUNY, United States
and members of the Local Organizing Committee
As HOMSEA will be celebrating its 10th anniversary in Siem Reap (where everything began ten years ago!), all proposals on the subject of the history of medicine and health in Southeast Asia will be considered, but preference will be given to those on the theme of: “History of Medicine in Southeast Asia: Future Perspectives”
Please submit a one-page proposed abstract for a 20-minute talk, and a one-page CV by July 15 2015 to: Laurence Monnais: laurence.monnais-rousselot@umontreal.ca
Please note that it may be possible to subsidize some of the costs of participation for scholars from the Southeast Asia region, and for graduate and postgraduate students.
If you wish to ask for support, please send a separate email justifying your request by July 15 to Laurence Monnais.
Propositions will be reviewed by September 2015.
Further information regarding the venue, registration, registration fees and accommodation options will be available by then (http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/hist/homsea/; http://www.khmerstudies.org/)
Laurence Monnais
Professeur titulaire
Département d’histoire – CETASE
Chaire de recherche du Canada sur le pluralisme en santé
Dr. Krisna Uk, Center for Khmer Studies, Cambodia
Prof. Laurence Monnais, Université de Montréal, Canada
Assoc. Prof. Hans Pols, University of Sydney, Australia
Dr. Mitch Aso, University at Albany, SUNY, United States
and members of the Local Organizing Committee
As HOMSEA will be celebrating its 10th anniversary in Siem Reap (where everything began ten years ago!), all proposals on the subject of the history of medicine and health in Southeast Asia will be considered, but preference will be given to those on the theme of: “History of Medicine in Southeast Asia: Future Perspectives”
Please submit a one-page proposed abstract for a 20-minute talk, and a one-page CV by July 15 2015 to: Laurence Monnais: laurence.monnais-rousselot@umontreal.ca
Please note that it may be possible to subsidize some of the costs of participation for scholars from the Southeast Asia region, and for graduate and postgraduate students.
If you wish to ask for support, please send a separate email justifying your request by July 15 to Laurence Monnais.
Propositions will be reviewed by September 2015.
Further information regarding the venue, registration, registration fees and accommodation options will be available by then (http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/hist/homsea/; http://www.khmerstudies.org/)
Laurence Monnais
Professeur titulaire
Département d’histoire – CETASE
Chaire de recherche du Canada sur le pluralisme en santé
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“Valori per il bene comune”: seminario di formazione all’Istituto San Paolo di Takeo - Agenzia Fides
“Valori per il bene comune”: seminario di formazione all’Istituto San Paolo di Takeo - Agenzia Fides
Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) – I valori condivisi, in una società pluralistica, sono i “mattoni” sui quali edificare il bene comune: è quanto ha affermato un seminario tenutosi nei giorni scorsi all’Istituto San Paolo di Takeo, nel Vicariato Apostolico di Phnom Penh, dal titolo “Costruire l’edificio dei valori nella società cambogiana del 21° secolo” organizzato in collaborazione con l’Unesco e l'Università degli Studi di Bergamo, in Italia.
Come appreso da Fides, al seminario hanno partecipato 165 tra studenti, personale e docenti dell’Istituto San Paolo, i direttori delle scuole superiori della provincia di Takeo, rappresentanti dei gruppi della società civile, rappresentanti delle comunità e istituzioni cattoliche. Presente il Vescovo Oliver Schmitthaeusler, Vicario Apostolico di Phnom Penh, e il Rettore dell'Istituto San Paolo.
I relatori si sono concentrati sulle sfide affrontate in Cambogia per costruire una società armoniosa da parte di tutte le comunità sociali e religiose presenti nel territorio nazionale.
La riflessione si è allargata alla comunità dell'ASEAN, l’Associazione delle nazioni del Sudest asiatico, dove verranno integrate le economie e le culture in un prossimo futuro. Un assunto è stato condiviso: “Gli esseri umani hanno una dignità intrinseca che li rende uguali e preziosi. Possono ricercare il bene comune, in termini di rispetto dei diritti umani e valori umani, in spirito di responsabilità e di partecipazione attiva, in un senso di solidarietà e di fraternità”. La Chiesa cattolica cambogiana si impegnerà a portare avanti questa prospettiva.
L’Istituto San Paolo sorge a Takeo, 70 km a sud della capitale, e offre formazione ai giovani nel campo dell’agronomia e dell’informatica. Primo centro di studi superiori fondato dalla Chiesa cattolica locale, è stato voluto da Sua Ecc. Mons. Olivier Schmitthaeusler e realizzato grazie all’impegno comune della Chiesa cattolica cambogiana. Il centro, aperto nel 2010, intende diventare un “polo di eccellenza”, per l’impegno della Chiesa nell’opera di istruzione. (PA) (Agenzia Fides 12/6/015)
Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) – I valori condivisi, in una società pluralistica, sono i “mattoni” sui quali edificare il bene comune: è quanto ha affermato un seminario tenutosi nei giorni scorsi all’Istituto San Paolo di Takeo, nel Vicariato Apostolico di Phnom Penh, dal titolo “Costruire l’edificio dei valori nella società cambogiana del 21° secolo” organizzato in collaborazione con l’Unesco e l'Università degli Studi di Bergamo, in Italia.
Come appreso da Fides, al seminario hanno partecipato 165 tra studenti, personale e docenti dell’Istituto San Paolo, i direttori delle scuole superiori della provincia di Takeo, rappresentanti dei gruppi della società civile, rappresentanti delle comunità e istituzioni cattoliche. Presente il Vescovo Oliver Schmitthaeusler, Vicario Apostolico di Phnom Penh, e il Rettore dell'Istituto San Paolo.
I relatori si sono concentrati sulle sfide affrontate in Cambogia per costruire una società armoniosa da parte di tutte le comunità sociali e religiose presenti nel territorio nazionale.
La riflessione si è allargata alla comunità dell'ASEAN, l’Associazione delle nazioni del Sudest asiatico, dove verranno integrate le economie e le culture in un prossimo futuro. Un assunto è stato condiviso: “Gli esseri umani hanno una dignità intrinseca che li rende uguali e preziosi. Possono ricercare il bene comune, in termini di rispetto dei diritti umani e valori umani, in spirito di responsabilità e di partecipazione attiva, in un senso di solidarietà e di fraternità”. La Chiesa cattolica cambogiana si impegnerà a portare avanti questa prospettiva.
L’Istituto San Paolo sorge a Takeo, 70 km a sud della capitale, e offre formazione ai giovani nel campo dell’agronomia e dell’informatica. Primo centro di studi superiori fondato dalla Chiesa cattolica locale, è stato voluto da Sua Ecc. Mons. Olivier Schmitthaeusler e realizzato grazie all’impegno comune della Chiesa cattolica cambogiana. Il centro, aperto nel 2010, intende diventare un “polo di eccellenza”, per l’impegno della Chiesa nell’opera di istruzione. (PA) (Agenzia Fides 12/6/015)
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