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Call to Compassion: About the AIDS temple
by Renée K. Gadoua
Thursday November 29, 2007, 2:00 PM
Wat Prabat Nampu Temple in Lopburi,Thailand is 120 kilometers north of Bangkok.Wat Prabat Nampu temple
In 1992, Alongkot Dikkapanya, a Buddhist monk, founded an eight-bed hospice at a small Buddhist temple in Lopburi, Thailand, about 70 miles north of Bangkok. It has grown to a 400-bed facility that treats and cares for people with HIV/AIDS. Learn more at www.aidstemple.th.org
An excerpt from the Web site:
Lopburi is a sleepy rural town 120 km north of Bangkok. It is steeped in history with civilizations dating back at least 1,200 years. In the mid-1700s, it was briefly the capital of Siam under King Narai. These days it is best known for its legion of monkeys which have turned the town into a local tourist attraction ... and for the AIDS temple.
How to help: Send donations to Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers, Box 302, Maryknoll, N.Y. 10545, Attn: Mission account, Rev. Michael Bassano
The Rev. Michael Bassano
Age: 58.
Hometown: Binghamton.
Career: Ordained a priest in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse in 1975; became a Maryknoll associate in 1987 and a permanent Maryknoll missionary in 1998.
Ministry in Syracuse Diocese: St. Anthony, Utica; St. Thomas, Binghamton; St. John, Utica.
Maryknoll assignments: Chile, Thailand.
Maryknoll: It is a U.S.-based Catholic mission movement founded in 1911. Nearly 1,000 Maryknoll missionaries work in 35 countries. Find out more at www.maryknoll.org.
Listen to an audio interview with Father Bassano.
I was a young girl when I met Fr. Mike in Utica at St. Anthony's were my grandmother was his housekeeper. I remember him coming back to the rectory without his coat, my grandmother said "Father were is your coat?" He replied "I saw a man without one, he needed it more than I". Back then he was just as compassionate as he is now. He touch our lives and I will always remeber him. He truly ranks with Mother Teresa and Mother Marianne with his work. God Bless!!
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