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The Apostolic Vicar of Phnom Penh organized a sports competition to build peace in Takeo province, about 70 kilometers from the capital of Phnom Penh, in the south of Cambodia.

Archbishop Anthony Muheria of Nyeri Archdiocese ordained a blind seminarian, Michael Mithamo King'ori, and five other deacons at St. John Bosco Kiamuiru Primary School Grounds, Kiamuiru parish, on January 14.

Bishop Joseph Nguyen Tan Tuoc of Phu Cuong diocese urged eleven newly ordained Jesuit priests to be living gospels for the salvation of God’s people in Vietnam on December 3. The bishop ordained the eleven Jesuit deacons to priests at St. Joseph Jesuit Scholasticate in Thu Duc, Vietnam, on the feast of St. Francis Xavier.

"As a priest I am to serve, to sacrifice my own life, and to celebrate sacraments of God for the Catholics."

Deacon Khamsan Mim Khounthichak was ordained a priest on his sickbed by Bishop Rolando Santos in Manila on June 13, the feast of St Anthony of Padua.

Two deacons were ordained to the priesthood in Panghkak Parish, Bamaw diocese in Myanmar on March 22.

Cardinal Charles Bo ordained 13 deacons to the priesthood in Saint Mary’s Cathedral in Yangon, Myanmar on March 19, 2022.

A Myanmar bishop of Yangon archdiocese ordained five deacons amid political unrest on September 25.

Ordained priests were deacons Celestine Sa Tiwu, Francis Phyo Chit Ko, Saw Hilary, Nerius Saw Kyaw Thet, and Richard Paul Christopher.

The Archdiocese of Dhaka in Bangladesh has ordained seven new priests — four diocesan, two from the Holy Cross congregation — on Dec. 30, 2020.

The Diocese of Owensboro in the United States has ordained on May 23 not only its first Burmese priest but the first in the United States.