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May 14, 2024 · The Vatican’s Gamble With Beijing Is Costing China’s Catholics. In trying to hold the Church together, Pope Francis has compromised on religious freedom. By Francis X. Rocca. Illustration...
May 24, 2024 · VATICAN CITY — The Holy See and the People’s Republic of China have never had formal diplomatic relations. But under Pope Francis, the two have come closer together than at any time since the ...
Apr 19, 2024 · The sixth largest city in the United States is Baltimore." Today, it is the 31st largest city in the country , its population having shrunk 1.17% just last year.
Feb 29, 2024 · Human rights, including those against freedom of thought, conscience and religion, continue to be violated on an alarming scale across the globe, the Holy See's Permanent Observer to the United Nations and Other International Organisations in Geneva said on Wednesday. Discrimination and persecution of believers are on the rise
Oct 31, 2023 · By Lisa Zengarini. The Holy See has reiterated its calls to address “decisively” the “pernicious and abhorrent evil of racism” in all its forms and to stem related religious intolerance, discrimination, and persecution.
Dec 26, 2023 · Pope Francis gives a blessing after he delivers his Angelus address to pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square on Dec. 26, 2023. / Credit: Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, Dec 26, 2023 / 11:05 am ...
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The Lateran Treaty and the Concordat established the independent State of the Vatican City and granted Catholicism special status in Italy. In 1984, a new concordat between the Holy See and Italy modified certain provisions of the earlier treaty, including the position of Catholicism as the Italian state religion.
