Cambodia News News Cambodia » Religion: Thailand erects Buddha statue where once stood Vishnu statue; Cambodia is furious: What is the issue and why is it sensitive?
New Delhi: Amid the Thailand-Cambodia border dispute, which had been going on for months, the military engineers of Thailand had demolished a statue of Lord Vishnu on December 22, 2025. This happened ...
News Cambodia » Religion: Tep Vong, the leader of Cambodia's Buddhist community, dies at 93
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia's Ministry of Cult and Religion said Tep Vong died Monday after an extended illness. PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Tep Vong, the senior monk who headed Cambodia’s ...
News Cambodia » Religion: Hundreds of Buddhist monks in Cambodia gather to praise ceasefire with Thailand and mourn the dead
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Hundreds of Buddhist monks in Cambodia on Friday held a religious ceremony to honor soldiers killed in recent border clashes with Thai forces and to pray for peace. They ...
News Cambodia » Religion: Cambodia’s Buddhist Great Supreme Patriarch Dies, Aged 92
Tep Vong, who helped revive Buddhism after the fall of the Khmer Rouge, had close and long-standing connections to the ruling Cambodian People’s Party. Tep Vong, the senior monk who headed Cambodia’s ...
News Cambodia » Religion: Angkor Wat sprawls across 400 acres, the largest religious monument ever built
Angkor Wat, in northwestern Cambodia, is widely described as the largest religious monument ever built, a single temple complex whose grounds cover roughly 400 acres. Raised in the early 12th century ...
News Cambodia » Religion: Cambodia hosts its first Islam-Buddhism summit
Cambodia hosted a summit on Islam and Buddhism, the first such inter-religious program held in the Buddhist-majority nation to promote ethnic and religious harmony. The day-long summit, organized by ...
News Cambodia » Religion: RELIGION-CAMBODIA: Buddhist Revival on, But Critics Doubt Quality
PHNOM PENH, Aug 30 2001 (IPS) - At the Chompuh Khaek temple, 10 km south-east of the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh, a group of 20 men and women sit, with nothing but their towels on, for a ‘holy bath’.