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The Church of Hong Kong offers its contribution in a spirit of communion to the synodal journey of the universal Church in preparation for the 16th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops (2021-2023)

The Catholic bishops of Asia, including the Oriental Churches, will hold their own General Conference, or plenary in person.

"Seminary formation is sacred, and we must never forget what we have learned in the seminary," says Archbishop Christophe Zakhia El-Kassis, Apostolic Nuncio to Pakistan

"We asked the doctors at St. Mary's Hospital, Jharsuguda, and got the medicines for the flu, as we always do," said Father Rodrigues.

We need to move from individual engagement to community building. As Pope Francis says, "God’s style is closeness, compassion, and tenderness’.

It was more convenient for Catholics to celebrate the feast on August 13 (Saturday) than on Monday (August 15), said Father Richard Rai, the parish priest of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Cathedral.

The keynote speaker will be Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, prefect of Propaganda Fide (also known as the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples).

"We will do regular monitoring to see agricultural developments in the group and also each member," said Father Maxi Sikone, director of Caritas Atambua.

Paolo Ruffini, the Prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Communication, addresses this year's SIGNIS World Congress in Seoul, recalling that "the only way to respond to the challenge of technology is not to think of it as an idol."

The August 16–19, 2022 event has the theme "Peace in the Digital World."