カテゴリー: Vatican
Beijing suspected of putting pressure on Vatican to cut ties with Taipei Next week, 135 cardinals will gather inside the Vatican for the conclave, a secretive meeting to decide who will succeed the late Pope Francis. Around the world, people are specul…
Sebastien Lai, son of Jimmy, also criticises Vatican over failure to hold China to account over human rights abusesThe British son of the jailed Hong Kong media entrepreneur Jimmy Lai has criticised Britain and the Vatican for failing to speak out stro…
Prominent Catholic cleric, 90, detained with three others linked to disbanded charity for protestersThe Vatican has voiced concern after Hong Kong’s national security police arrested 90-year-old Cardinal Joseph Zen, one of Asia’s most senior and outspo…
South Korean president meets pontiff and gives him a cross made of barbed wire taken from demilitarised zone The South Korean president, Moon Jae-in, has made a fresh attempt to have Pope Francis visit North Korea, at a meeting at the Vatican where th…
Francis mentions plight of Muslim minority in China, alongside Rohingya and Yazidi, in new bookPope Francis has for the first time called China’s Muslim Uighurs a “persecuted” people, something human rights activists have been urging him to do for year…
Pope Francis reportedly declining to meet US secretary of state who says the Catholic church too soft on BeijingMike Pompeo will visit the Vatican to protest against the imminent renewal of a deal between the Catholic church and China, which the US sec…