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Royal Thai Army soldiers are pictured on armored vehicles on a road in Chachoengsao province on July 24, 2025.

Thailand-Cambodia ceasefire holds amid Catholic bishops’ peace appeals

Jul 29, 2025

By AC Wimmer

The “immediate and unconditional” ceasefire took effect at midnight Tuesday following five days of deadly border clashes. Read more

Father Enrique “Kike” Figaredo on Oct. 23, 2024, presents Pope Francis with a wheelchair made by land mine survivors in Cambodia.

Jesuit priest gifts Pope Francis a special wheelchair from Cambodia

Oct 25, 2024

By Almudena Martínez-Bordiú

Apostolic prefect of Battambang in Cambodia Father Enrique “Kike” Figaredo presented Pope Francis with a wheelchair made by land mine... Read more

Father “Kike” Figaredo with one of the disabled children he helps in Cambodia.

‘The wheelchair bishop’: Father Kike Figaredo dedicates ministry to disabled in Cambodia

Oct 24, 2024

By Almudena Martínez-Bordiú

Father Kike Figaredo told ACI Prensa that people are not “disabled” but have “different abilities.” However, “they have special needs”... Read more