Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: Gaspar da Cruz, ɗan Portugal ɗan Dominican Order, ne ya fara aikin wa'azi na Kirista na farko da aka sani a Kambodiya a shekara ta 1555-1556. Dangane da nasa labarin, aikin ya kasance cikakkiyar gazawa; ya sami ƙasar da wani sarki "Bramene" da jami'an "Bramene" ke gudanarwa, kuma ya gano cewa "Bramenes sune mutanen da suka fi wahalar tuba". Ya ji cewa babu wanda zai kuskura ya tuba ba tare da izinin Sarki ba, kuma ya bar ƙasar cikin takaici, ba tare da "baftisma fiye da al'ummai ɗaya da na bari a cikin kabari ba". Duk da mulkin mallaka na Faransa a ƙarni na 19, Kiristanci bai yi tasiri sosai a cikin ƙasar ba. A shekara ta 1972 akwai Kiristoci wajen 20,000 a Kambodiya, yawancinsu 'yan Katolika ne. Kafin dawowar 'yan Vietnam a 1970 da 1971, mai yiwuwa Kiristoci 62,000 ne ke zaune a Kambodiya. Bisa ga kididdigar Vatican, a shekara ta 1953, membobin Cocin Roman Katolika a Kambodiya sun kai 120,000, suna mai da shi a lokacin, addini na biyu mafi girma; ƙididdigar ta nuna cewa kusan Katolika 50,000 'yan Vietnam ne. Da yawa daga cikin Katolika da suka rage a Kambodiya a 1972 Turawa ne <unk> galibi Faransanci; kuma har yanzu, tsakanin Katolika Kambodiya akwai fararen fata da Eurasians na zuriyar Faransa. Steinberg ya ba da rahoto, kuma a cikin 1953, cewa ofishin jakadancin Unitarian na Amurka ya ci gaba da makarantar horar da malamai a Phnom Penh, kuma ofisoshin Baptist sun yi aiki a lardunan Battambang da Siem Reap. An kafa kungiyar Christian and Missionary Alliance a Kambodiya a shekarar 1923; a shekarar 1962 kungiyar ta musulunta kimanin mutane 2,000.  Tambaya: Wanene aka sani ya fara aikin wa'azi na Kirista na farko a Kambodiya?
Gaspar da Cruz