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Vatican and Vietnam agree to open resident Holy See office in Hanoi, as relations improve
By Nicole Winfield — July 28, 2023
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Vietnam formally agreed Thursday to let a Vatican representative live in the country and open an office, a notching up of relations that could have implications down the line for the Holy See’s delicate ties with China.
‘Underground’ Catholics complicate pope’s hope of better relations with China
By Reuters — December 24, 2016
BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) Some Chinese Catholics are not ready to accept reconciliation with a government that has persecuted them for years.
Vatican and China in final push for elusive deal on bishops
By Jerome Socolovsky — October 21, 2016
ROME/HONG KONG/BEIJING (Reuters) - Representatives from the Vatican and China are expected to meet before the end of the month to finalize a deal on the ordination of bishops on the mainland.
China’s efforts to mold Christianity in its own image draw resistance
By Matt Moir — March 8, 2016
BEIJING (RNS) The growth of Christianity is a source of alarm for Chinese authorities. But Chinese Christians are nonplussed.
China says Dalai Lama ‘profanes’ Buddhism by doubting his reincarnation
By Reuters — March 9, 2015
BEIJING (Reuters) Tibetan Buddhism holds that the soul of a senior lama is reincarnated in the body of a child on his death. China says the tradition must continue and it must approve the next Dalai Lama.
COMMENTARY: China’s grim religious freedom problem
By Katrina Lantos Swett — July 29, 2014
(RNS) China’s appalling religious freedom record underscores the obvious: Little has changed since Beijing shamed itself before the world 25 years ago, massacring its own people for the “crime” of demanding their rights.
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