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China and the Vatican have agreed to extend a provisional agreement on the appointment of Catholic bishops in China for four ...

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The provisional agreement was first signed in 2018 and then renewed in 2020 and 2022. The most recent two-year renewal signed ...

The Vatican and the Chinese government are renewing their agreement on the appointment of bishops and extending it from a two ...

Synods in the past only involved bishops, but at this synod lay men and women make up about a quarter of the delegates. In addition, the synod began in 2021 with a worldwide consultation process ...

By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from Rome The Vatican and China have agreed to extend an agreement aimed at ending a decades-old power struggle over the appointment of Roman Catholic bishops in ...

China and the Vatican have agreed to extend a provisional agreement on the appointment of Catholic bishops in China for four more years BEIJING -- China and the Vatican have agreed to extend a ...