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Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - To teach and help young people to share the Good News with others and announce the love of God and the values of the Gospel, the local Catholic Church in Cambodia has launched a new radio programme dedicated to young people. The programme “I need you” was launched in view of the 23rd World Youth Day which will take place in Sydney Australia in July 2008, an event in which many Cambodian Christians would like to take part.
The programme for listeners aged 14-18, was organised with the help of a Protestant Radio station which has given space to the local Catholic initiative.
The programme is conducted by two young people 27 year old Hou Soktheary, and 25 year old Rin Bunrith, who are in live contact with the listeners and invite them to come to the studios to take part in the programme, to ask questions and help solve doubts with the help of experts, psychologists, theologians present in the studios.
Colomban missionary Fr Omer Giraldo, head of the national Catholic Social Communications Office, said radio programmes can foster human and spiritual growth, spark curiosity and bring people to know about Christ and the Catholic faith. In Cambodia, there is a general lack of human education and psychological orientation for young people who start out with difficulty on the path to human maturation, in search of a point of reference. The Church, he concluded, can be a point of reference, because she leads people to known the most important thing, God's love for all men and women. (PA) (Agenzia Fides 22/11/2007 righe 26 parole 268)
