New translation, new beginning: Christians in Cambodia. (Column)

From: The Christian Century | Date: November 3, 1993| Author: Omanson, Roger L. | Copyright information

THERE SHALL COME forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots." This and similar images used by the Old Testament prophets to speak of new beginnings and new hope have special significance for Christians in Cambodia. From 1975 to 1978 around 2 million Khmer people were tortured and killed under the Khmer Rouge regime of Pol Pot. Hundreds of thousands more fled, many to nearby countries of Southeast Asia, from which most emigrated to France, Austra...

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