Topic: East Asia
An outspoken Hong Kong Catholic priest said Tuesday he has been denied entry into China due to an escalating row between the Vatican and Beijing over the ordination of bishops.Italian-born Franco Mella said Chinese immigration officials barred him on July 19 after ...
HONG KONG (Reuters) - China blocked a Hong Kong Catholic priest and rights activist from entering the mainland last week in what he said may have been a show of unhappiness with the Vatican for excommunicating two bishops recently ordained by Beijing.In ...
BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Monday the Vatican's recent excommunication of two Chinese bishops who were ordained without papal approval was "unreasonable" and "rude," in a sign of escalating tensions between the Vatican and Beijing.In the government's first response to the ...
China's state-controlled Catholic church plans to ordain at least seven more bishops, a top church official said Friday, after a series of such ordinations worsened already tense Vatican ties.Liu Bainian, deputy head of the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association (CPCA), said the new ...
BEIJING (Reuters) - China ordained a third bishop without the Pope's approval on Thursday, the honorary president of the state-backed church said, in a move likely to further strain tense relations between the Chinese government and the Vatican.China's state-sanctioned Catholic church ordained ...
Chinese Catholics said Tuesday that three bishops had gone missing or been detained in an apparent attempt to force them to take part in a state-sanctioned ordination.Workers at three dioceses in southern China's Guangdong province told AFP their bishops had disappeared in ...
The Dalai Lama voiced confidence Monday that Tibetans supported his "Middle Way" of seeking greater rights but staying under China's rule, despite criticism from some young exiles.The Dalai Lama, who announced earlier this year that he was retiring from political duties, said ...
Ties between the Vatican and Beijing have been fraught further with the Holy See excommunicating a Chinese bishop and threats by the China's state-run Church to continue defying Pope Benedict XVI.China's 5.7 million Catholics are increasingly caught between showing allegiance to the ...
Chinese police detained a Vatican-backed Catholic priest and blocked his ordination as a bishop, a parishioner said Thursday, in a move likely to raise tensions with the Holy See.The detention of Joseph Sun Jigeng came as China's state-run Catholic church reportedly ordained ...
China's state-controlled Catholic church wants to ordain at least 40 bishops "without delay", its vice president said Friday, in a move likely to further irritate ties with the Vatican.Liu Bainian, deputy head of the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association, confirmed an official Xinhua ...
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