Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra’s testimony is considered especially crucial to the defense case, since theoretically it could ...

The challenges now facing the Catholic Church in China and Nicaragua have significant similarities to the problems that the ...

So what would be the answer? Rome argues that the only independent bishop is the one named by the Vatican. China argues against the interference of the Vatican as a foreign government. One wonders ...

The United States' chief advocate for religious freedom expressed his "disappointment" in the Vatican over its provisional agreement with China on the appointment of bishops in the country. Nury A ...

VATICAN CITY _ The recent consecration of bishops in China without the approval of Pope Benedict XVI is prompting the Vatican to reevaluate its push to restore diplomatic relations with Beijing.

In future new bishops will be proposed by members of local Catholic communities together with Chinese authorities. The names will be sent to the Vatican Pope Francis on Tuesday defended a landmark ...

Pope Francis speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at The Vatican, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023. Francis said that sometimes Chinese authorities are somewhat "closed." Francis has been ...

Cardinal Zen, former Bishop of Hong Kong ... Church — the Church in the catacombs. In 1988, the Vatican responded to the situation in China in the form of instructions to Chinese Catholics ...

On 20 November 2010, the unlawful consecration of Guo Jincai as bishop of Chengde soured relations between the Vatican and China. When the government, with much ostentation, held the Eighth ...

The United States' chief advocate for religious freedom expressed his "disappointment" in the Vatican over its provisional agreement with China on the appointment of bishops in the country.

Zen, a 90-year-old retired bishop, will attend the funeral ... Zen contends the deal betrays pro-Vatican Catholics in China and the clergy who have suffered persecution there.

- Cardinal Joseph Zen, the former bishop of Hong Kong, arrives for the funeral mass of late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in St.