Covid-19 Thailand - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 12 Aug 2021 01:21:44 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Covid-19 Thailand - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Catholic Church in Thailand converts facilities into field hospitals for COVID-19 patients https://cathnews.co.nz/2021/08/12/catholic-church-in-thailand-converts-facilities-into-field-hospitals-for-covid-19-patients/ Thu, 12 Aug 2021 07:53:58 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=139192 Catholic dioceses and parishes in Thailand, which continues to witness a surge in COVID-19 cases, have been converting church facilities into field hospitals and isolation centers. The Archdiocese of Bangkok in the financial capital of the Southeast Asian country has turned over to the government a Catholic school that has been converted into a 630-bed Read more

Catholic Church in Thailand converts facilities into field hospitals for COVID-19 patients... Read more]]> Catholic dioceses and parishes in Thailand, which continues to witness a surge in COVID-19 cases, have been converting church facilities into field hospitals and isolation centers.

The Archdiocese of Bangkok in the financial capital of the Southeast Asian country has turned over to the government a Catholic school that has been converted into a 630-bed field hospital on August 6.

"The more humanity suffers, the more we need love, mercy and sharing," said Cardinal Francis Xavier Kriengsak Kovithavanich, Archbishop of Bangkok, in a report on Catholic news site LiCAS.

During the turnover ceremony, the cardinal said the pandemic "has brought suffering to all of us," especially "the poor, those without income, without a job, and those who have lost hope."

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Catholic Church in Thailand converts facilities into field hospitals for COVID-19 patients]]> 139192 Elderly left to die as Thailand's Covid crisis worsens https://cathnews.co.nz/2021/08/02/elderly-left-to-die-as-thailands-covid-crisis-worsens/ Mon, 02 Aug 2021 07:50:37 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=138865 An 80-year-old Thai man was driven by his daughter and her husband to a village temple in the northeastern province of Nakhon Ratchasima on July 25. He was left to his fate, lying helplessly on a dirt trail leading to the Buddhist monastery of Wat Pa Suan Thamma Sawaddee. The octogenarian, who was infected with Read more

Elderly left to die as Thailand's Covid crisis worsens... Read more]]> An 80-year-old Thai man was driven by his daughter and her husband to a village temple in the northeastern province of Nakhon Ratchasima on July 25. He was left to his fate, lying helplessly on a dirt trail leading to the Buddhist monastery of Wat Pa Suan Thamma Sawaddee.

The octogenarian, who was infected with Covid-19, was likely dumped by his daughter so that she would not have to take care of him during a raging months-long outbreak of the contagion that has seen human misery reach endemic proportions.

"Abandoning someone that is old and sick is an awful thing to do. To do it to your own father is unforgivable and unimaginable," a commenter noted.

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