25 Years of Witnessing to the Word in Thailand 229 from direct experience and not just from library research,” he says. “Part of the purpose for publishing this book was to bring awareness to the Church leadership at various levels about this pastoral situation in a more systematic and comprehensive way in order to respond to the pastoral needs. “As someone who has been engaged in Vietnamese migrant ministry in Thailand for 14 years, I think a lot more needs to be done on the part of both the ‘sending Church’ and the ‘receiving Church’ to provide adequate pastoral care for Vietnamese migrants in Asia and elsewhere around the world. “The book was an attempt to highlight some of the major issues that could be addressed by the Church, from the family and parish community on up.”
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