Asia/Mongolia - The Church Prepares for the Ordination of the First Native Priest

Ulaan Baatar (Agenzia Fides) - "We will soon have the first native priest of Mongolia: Joseph Enkh, who will be ordained a priest in Ulaan Baatar on 28 August 2016 by His Exc. Mgr. Wenceslao Padilla, Apostolic Prefect of Ulaan Baatar. This event is particularly important for our young Church, re-founded in 1992 and today has just over a thousand baptized. The ordination of a native priest will stimulate the enthusiasm and sense of belonging among the Mongols, towards a church that has long been seen as foreign", says Fr. Prosper Mbumba, Congolese missionary in Mongolia, a member of the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (CICM) to Agenzia Fides.

Joseph Enkh was ordained a deacon on 11 December 2014 in Daejeong (in South Korea), where he received his initial formation, and returned to Mongolia in January. Since then he has been carrying out his pastoral experience, serving in various parishes of Mongolia, where currently there are, on the whole, about 20 missionaries and 50 nuns from 12 congregations, engaged in six parishes.

Well, hesh mah mouf and call me stupid.
The first native priest of Mongolia: Joseph Enkh. God certainly does work in mysterious ways.

From Wikipedia:

Religion in Mongolia has been traditionally dominated by the schools of Mongolian Buddhism and by Mongolian shamanism, the ethnic religion of the Mongols.

Historically, through their Mongol Empire the Mongols were exposed to the influences of Christianity (Nestorianism and Catholicism) and Islam, although these religions never came to dominate.
During the socialist period of the Mongolian People's Republic (1924-1992) all religions were suppressed, but with the transition to the parliamentary republic in the 1990s there has been a general revival of faiths.

According to the national census of 2010,
53% of the Mongolians identify as Buddhists (which is NO religion since Sidhartha Gautama, the Buddha, told everyone OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER that he wasn't God or anywhere near it.) Sidhartha Gautama was an INDIAN, not an Oriental Asian. Lol. Absurd.
38.6% as not religious,
3% as Muslims (predominantly of Kazakh ethnicity),
2.9% as followers of the Mongol shamanic tradition,
2.1% as Christians, and
0.4% as followers of other religions. [I wonder what those "other religions" might be: Mormonism? Hare Krishnas? Who knows.]

Other sources estimate that a significantly higher proportion of the population follows the Mongol ethnic religion (18.6%).

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Bishop Enkh will have his work cut out for him.
How IN THE WORLD did he ever get so far in his faith? A bishop? Good for him...and good for Mongolia.

I’ve been a fan of throat singing for years. This guy does several different types of singing in one song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx8hrhBZJ98

This group is phenomenal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQkrsdjJB2s

On the weirder side of things is the Inuit Competition song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnPh3GGykaI

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