Tep Vong, the senior monk who led Cambodia's Buddhist community and played a crucial role in its revival after the Khmer Rouge genocide, has died at the age of 93 after battling illness. In 2006, he ...

At Wat Khmer, a Buddhist temple located on the southern outskirts of Lodi, volunteers have spent the past week cleaning, decorating and prepping fresh monk robes.

Buddhist leaders and representatives from Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos joined a recent summit in the Cambodian capital Phnom ...

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 ...

2,569 Buddhist monks joined nuns and residents of the city to carry banners and Cambodian flags in a 1.8 miles (3 kilometer) peace march from Wat Phnom to the Independence Monument in central Phnom ...

In November 2022, President Joe Biden visited Cambodia to attend the 40th and 41st Summits of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and Related Summits, joined by leaders from 28 other ...

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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 ...

Tep Vong, Great Supreme Patriarch, prays during the Independence Day celebration in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Sunday, Nov. 9, 2014. Venerable Tep Vong, the senior monk who headed Cambodia’s Sangha -- its ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Tep Vong, the senior monk who headed Cambodia’s Buddhist community and was vital for its rejuvenation in the wake of the Khmer Rouge genocide in the late 70s, has died. He ...