On Thursday, two years to the day that the Holy See and China signed an agreement allowing the pope to approve bishops in the country, the sides officially renewed the pact before it was set ...
The Vatican and the Chinese government will extend an agreement signed in 2018 regarding the appointment of bishops.
As the initial agreement expired Oct. 22, the two sides "have agreed to extend the experimental implementation phase ...
The Vatican has proposed to the Chinese government that they extend an agreement signed in 2018 regarding the appointment of bishops, Vatican Media reported.
The agreement, the details of which have never been made public, is ...
China has been accused of hacking Vatican computers as well as those in the Diocese of Hong Kong and other Catholic organizations in May.
The hacking appears to be an attempt to gain an advantage in ...
China has announced that Bishop Paul Ma Cunguo of Shuozhou, a Vatican-recognized bishop, has joined the official state-run Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association.
It is the third such concession made by Chinese authorities inside a month as ...
In his latest column, Our Sunday Visitor contributing editor Russell Shaw looks at the 2018 agreement between China and the Holy See, which expires in September. Shaw writes that “since terms of the Provisional Agreement ...
Top U.S. State Department officials singled out China as one of the world's worst offenders of religious freedom because it had subjected religious minorities to imprisonment and forced labor. Sam Brownback, ambassador-at-large for religious freedom, ...
The morning routine hasn't changed for Marichu and Ding Camales-Torrijos since they and all other passengers on the Diamond Princess cruise ship were quarantined following discovery of the coronavirus on board. The couple has breakfast ...
The Vatican donated thousands of protective masks to several Chinese provinces affected by the outbreak of the deadly coronavirus. In an email to Catholic News Service Feb. 3, the Vatican press office confirmed a report ...
Some churches in China have suspended community activities, including Mass, over fears of the deadly coronavirus virus that has already killed six people and continues to spread. With Lunar New Year celebrated January 25 this ...