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Pope Francis extends a hand to China

by | Sep 19, 2022 | , , , , , , , , , , | 0 |

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Rome Newsroom, Sep 19, 2022 / 08:33 am (CNA).
While a trial against Cardinal Joseph Zen is getting underway in China, the Holy See continues to work towards the rene…

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Pope, Chinese leader Xi to cross paths in Kazakhstan

by | Sep 14, 2022 | , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 0 |

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s first trip overseas since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic will overlap with a visit by Pope Francis to Kazakhstan, although the Vatican says there are no plans for them to meet.

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Religious freedom commission welcomes U.S. diplomatic boycott of Beijing Olympics

by | Dec 8, 2021 | , , , , , , , | 0 |

The Biden administration’s diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing sends “a strong and unequivocal message” to the Chinese government that its persecution of religious minorities will not be tolerated.

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Xi’s Mandate of Heaven: Rewriting the Bible

by | Oct 29, 2020 | , , , , , , | 0 |

What do Xi Jinping and Thomas Jefferson have in common? There may be a hundred interesting answers (which you can consider at your leisure), but as yet there is one that is both fairly substantial and sufficiently documented: both men set out to rewrite the Bible. Jefferson’s project—initially undertaken while president of the United States—was […]

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Xi’s Pope

by | Oct 23, 2020 | , , , , , , , , | 0 |

As expected, the Holy See has announced an extension of its provisional agreement with the People’s Republic of China, concerning the appointment of bishops. Under the controversial agreement, episcopal candidates will be recommended to the Holy See by the Chinese Communist Party, then approved and appointed by the Holy Father. The plan’s experimental phase will […]

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Naïve, Corrupt—or Both?

by | Sep 24, 2020 | , , , , , , , , | 0 |

As the ancient Chinese proverb warns, a bad beginning makes for a bad ending. In June of 2013, Pope Francis dispatched to China the infamous Theodore McCarrick to begin deliberations with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to normalize relations with the Chinese Catholic Church. Those negotiations resulted in a secret pact signed by the parties […]

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For China’s Uighurs, the Red Terror Isn’t Over

by | Aug 5, 2020 | , , , , , , | 0 |

China’s record on human rights protections has long been appalling. But, in the past few weeks, a series of interviews with Uighur Muslims who have escaped from China revealed a whole new level of gut-wrenching details about the Communist regime’s oppression. These interviews expose the existence of a long-suspected archipelago of concentration camps (called “reeducation […]

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