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Severe earthquake strikes Flores, the ‘promised land for vocations’
August 17, 2026
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CWN Editor's Note: A severe earthquake struck north-central Flores on August 15. A 2024 article in L’Osservatore Romano described the Indonesian island as the “promised land for vocations.”
Twenty-seven seminarians of the Society of the Divine Word made their perpetual vows outdoors after their seminary chapel was damaged in the earthquake.
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