The Vatican and China on Thursday renewed an agreement on the appointment of bishops in China and the Vatican promised to push the communist government to allow more freedom of religion.

Pope Francis has signed off on a two-year extension of a deal with China on the appointment of bishops that critics have condemned as a sell-out to the communist government, a senior Vatican source ...

Yesterday's controversy, today's silence October 1 marked the anniversary of the canonisation desired by John Paul II which gave rise to the most ...

Beijing's top diplomat in Hong Kong has set out four red lines for the city's new U.S. Consul General Julie Eadeh.

China tries to exert total control over religion, according to a September report by the United States Commission on ...

State-owned China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) has evacuated more than 5000 personnel from offshore platforms in the South China Sea's Pearl River Mouth basin as Super Typhoon Ragasa ...

(RNS) — In his first in-depth interviews since his election, Pope Leo XIV set out his vision for the Catholic Church: open to dialogue yet firm on doctrine. VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In two wide-ranging ...

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Shortly before 8:30 a.m. on Aug. 27, during an all-school mass at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, a shooter armed with a rifle approached the side of the church and sprayed dozens of ...

ROME -- Pope Leo XIV said in his first interview as history's first American pope that he has no intention of getting involved in U.S. politics but will raise his voice on issues of concern to the ...