The month of July concludes with one cardinal-voter less than before. The cardinal emeritus of Hong Kong, John Tong Hon, turned 80 years old on July 31.<\/p>\n
He is the seventh Chinese cardinal in history and a great defender of religious freedom in his country.<\/p>\n
In 2012, he strongly criticized the Beijing regime, since they did not allow local bishops participate in the synod on New Evangelization that took place in the Vatican.<\/p>\n
CARD. JOHN TONG HONG<\/strong> In 1996, John Paul II appointed him bishop, and in 2012 Benedict XVI named him cardinal. In 2013, he participated in the conclave where that elected Pope Francis.<\/p>\n Like all cardinals, turning 80 means John Tong Hong loses the right to vote in a possible conclave. Currently the number of cardinal electors is 119.<\/p>\n Daniel D\u00edaz Vizzi July 31, 2019. There are currently 119 electors cardinal electors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20628,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/u4FCSkNTYRM","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bjohntonghoneng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bjohntonghonint.mp4","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47762"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBishop emeritus of Hong Kong
\n \u201cI think it's a real pity that no other Chinese bishop has been allowed to leave the country to participate in this synod. It is a great pity and that is why we have to pray for the Church in China. One day we will enjoy full freedom, religious freedom and also a fully open government.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n
\nTranslation: Melissa Butz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"