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Building local resilience will prove key to better addressing the effects of climate change in Cambodia, last year’s Cambodia Human Development Report (CHDR) stated. “Local action and local solutions are what is needed most,” Tin Ponlok, deputy director-general for climate change of the Cambodian Ministry of Environment, said. “This is where we can make the most difference.”
Is Christianity a Western exclusive that has failed to provide meaning to Asians and assimilate its message to Asian cultures? This is a question that many Asian Christians, usually a minority in their nations, often ask, while cohabitating with the non-Christian majority population and governments. What is the answer? To find it, let us try to understand better the backbone of Asia’s religions.
Decades before the interfaith studies, Raimon Panikkar set the Catholic world astir by insisting that Christianity could learn from the Eastern religions. The diminutive Catholic priest and scholar, son of an Indian Hindu father and a Spanish Catholic mother, who died last year, on August 26 at 93, did much to prepare the Church for the globalization of Christianity. Some thought of him as dangerously radical. But to his students and many admirers, Panikkar was a prophet whose teachings helped Christianity spread like wildfire throughout the non-Western world.
