BANGKOK - The last time Vararunee Khonchanath was in the presence of a pope was before she was born just over 35 years ago, but when Pope Francis visits Bangkok later this week to bless Thailand’s tiny Catholic minority she will be singing in the choir.
“I was in my mum’s tummy as she attended the mass when His Holiness John Paul II visited Thailand the last time,” Vararunee said, adding how honored she felt to be in the choir this time, when Pope Francis offers mass at the National Stadium. Catholicism first arrived in Siam, the old name for Thailand, in the mid 1500s with Portuguese missionaries and traders.
“In the past, many Catholics from places like Japan and Vietnam, migrated to this land to escape religious persecution,” said Puttipong Puttansri, a historian at the Archdiocese of Bangkok Historical Archive.
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