"The priority of my pastoral mission is to engage in catechesis, education, and social works, to give the Good News to the people of the Vicariate of Paksé," says Bishop Andrew Souksavath Nouane Asa.
During the recent Pascal Vigil, Father Vimanphet, the parish priest baptized a group of catechumens, administered Confirmation, and presided over marriage at Ban Nam Yam a small Hmong village in Laos.
A small Hmong community builds its first Catholic Hmong church in Nam Yam village in Laos with the help of the Hmong diaspora. The church belongs to the Vientiane diocese in Laos.
International human rights groups called for the release of a Christian leader who is being held in Laos for more than a year for allegedly violating a law protecting religious practice.
Christians in Saravan province in Laos have reportedly been evicted from their homes and forced to live in a forest area for refusing to renounce their faith.
