...as China's government continues to ramp up oppression By Jane F. Adolphe and Marcela Szymanski Even during the pandemic, there has not been a halt to the removal of Christian symbols in China. Catholic lawyers as well as parliamentarians and experts are responding to the “Call for Prayer for the Church and Peoples of [...]
This Letter is devoted to the question of the Catholic Church in China. The question is important because the historic "secret agreement" between the Holy See and China to regulate the relations of the Church to the Chinese Communist government — especially regarding the selection of bishops for the Church — signed on September 22, [...]
Top Ten from 2019 We bring you in the January issue of Inside the Vatican the incredible story of a beautiful Russian opera soprano, Svetlana Kasyan. (To obtain a copy of the print edition, call our US office at 1-800-789-9494). We have come to know Svetlana personally since she sang at a Concert for Peace in [...]
#9 Vincent Guo Xijin Bishop in China “I am ready to face the persecution” Until 2018, Bishop Guo was the ordinary of the Diocese of Mindong, located in the southern province of Fujian. However, with the signing of the “provisional agreement” between the Vatican and China in September of 2018, which resulted in Pope Francis lifting [...]
