
The retreat is over now and we turned out attention to what is happening in our mission countries in Maryknoll Asia South. Click here for scenes from the meetings.
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The retreat is over now and we turned out attention to what is happening in our mission countries in Maryknoll Asia South. Click here for scenes from the meetings.
Today we had our last talks by Fr. Larry Lewis who will return to New York tomorrow. Click here for pictures from this final retreat day.
The retreat continued again today, the last full day of that first activity of this gathering. Click here to see some scenes from the day.
Today was the third day of retreat. Click here to see some of the activities.
Click here for pictures from our second day of the retreat with Fr. Larry Lewis.
Today was the first full day of our retreat. Click here to follow the day’s schedule in pictures.
Today was a travel day, getting everyone arriving in Bangkok to the southern Thai city of Hua Hin. Click here for some photos from the day.
Today was the occasion of the annual gathering of church pastoral workers at the pastoral center in Phnom Penh Thmey. Click here to see the activities of the program.
WordPress has been threatening to change the editor used by people like me to prepare the posts that we publish on our websites. I was happy–mostly–with what I was using before but finally we are all forced now to use the new Gutenberg editor. There were some things difficult or impossible to do with the old “classic” editor but from my point of view, if it ain’t broken, don’t fix it. Gutenberg allows formatting like the colored background to this article—and large “drop letters” like the W above, but it also removes the capability to group posts into categories. I’ve seen there is a plug-in that allows one to use either or both the classic and Gutenberg editors so I guess I’ll have to explore that when I find some time.
This is a Phnom Penh city bus on a regular route. It’s rush hour and notice that the bus is basically empty, just one or two passengers (not visible). Japan and China have both given over 100 buses in the last two years and the number of routes was increased from three to thirteen, but mostly the buses run almost empty. When the first route was started about three years ago, people were interested in the idea–and attracted by the free rides for the first couple months, but since then nothing successful has been done to increase ridership. Donors have given the vehicles; now they need to teach the government how to market and run an effective bus system.