VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE   
   YEAR XXII - # 139   
   DATE 23-07-2015   
      
   Summary:   
   - The Patriarch of Baghdad awarded the international "La Traglia" prize   
   - Other Pontifical Acts   
      
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    The Patriarch of Baghdad awarded the international "La Traglia" prize   
    Vatican City, 23 July 2015 (VIS) - His Beatitude Louis Raphael I Sako,   
   Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans, Baghdad, Iraq, will receive the   
   international "La Traglia - Ethnic Groups and Communities" award from the   
   Italian city of Jelsi on 27 July. The prize, in its eighth edition this year,   
   is   
   awarded to those who played a distinguished role in the promotion and attention   
   to tradition, the environment, the defence of human rights and the cultural and   
   religious identity of small communities and ethnic groups.   
    Previous winners include the Sioux-Lakota chief Birgil Kills Straight, Tara   
   Gandhi, the Dalai Lama and Gino Strada (founder of Emergency). In 2015, a year   
   after Pope Francis' visit to the Italian region of Molise, where Jelsi is   
   located, and reflecting his concern over the conflicts in the Middle East, the   
   organisers of "La Traglia" wished to draw attention to the contemporary   
   martyrdom of Christians in Iraq, Libya, Syria and Egypt, by presenting the   
   award   
   to Patriarch Sako, for his commitment to interreligious dialogue in favour of   
   unity with the other Churches present in Iraq and with the Christians of the   
   Middle East.   
      
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    Other Pontifical Acts   
    Vatican City, 23 July 2015 (VIS) - The Holy Father has appointed Fr. John Moon   
   Hee Jong as auxiliary of the diocese of Suwon (area 5,371, population   
   7,721,286,   
   Catholics 825,735, priests 481, religious 1,703), Korea. The bishop-elect was   
   born in Gyeonggi-do, Korea in 1966 and was ordained a priest in 1994. He holds   
   a   
   licentiate in liturgy from the St. Anselm Pontifical Athenaeum, Rome, and has   
   served in a number of pastoral roles in the diocese of Suwon, including parish   
   vicar, parish priests and spiritual director of the Catholic University (major   
   seminary). He is currently diocesan director of the department for   
   evangelisation, lecturer at the major seminary and parish priest.   
      
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