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The Apostolic Nunciature of Poland has revealed further information regarding the resignation of Polish Archbishop Andrzej Dzięga, indicating that he stepped down due to alleged negligence in overseeing sexual abuse claims. / Credit: Redaktor01|...

AsiaNews Editor-in-Chief Fr Gianni Criveller offers his Christmas greetings. “From Myanmar to Gaza, via Iran, Hong Kong and many other places, the peace promised on the night of Bethlehem is a task that has yet to be achieved but involves us personally. God loves women and men of good will who suffer for freedom and peace. Our thoughts go out to them this Christmas.”

The local diocesan weekly reports that experts from all over the world will gather next June to reflect on the Church in China 100 years after the event promoted by Pius XI and the then apostolic delegate, later Archbishop Celso Costantini. The event was a milestone in the development of evangelisation of the Chinese people.

Father Gianni Criveller, a missionary who carried out his ministry for years in Greater China, is the new editor-in-chief of AsiaNews. In greeting readers, he writes that, while taking on a “precious legacy and demanding responsibility”, the agency “will continue to inform you and reflect upon Asia”, a multifaceted continent, “with great loyalty to the Catholic Church of which we are a part, and which we wish to serve. We believe in the Gospel of peace, God's gr...

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Chow is perhaps the only bishop in Chinese territory Pope Francis could pick without any immediate political complication

In mainland China, Catholic communities have expressed joy at Pope Francis’s choice. For PIME missionary and China expert Fr Gianni Criveller, this is a sign of the pope’s closeness to the suffering caused by China’s national security law. With Zen and John Tong (respectively in their nineties and eighties), Hong Kong will now have three cardinals.

Vatican City (AFP) April 5, 2023 - China has appointed a new bishop of Shanghai, the countrys largest Catholic diocese, in a unilateral move that violates a landmark agreement to coordinate with the Vatican.

China has appointed a new bishop of Shanghai, the countrys largest Catholic diocese, in a unilateral move that violates a landmark agreement to coordinate with the Vatican.

An agreement between the Vatican and Beijing was quietly renewed recently. However, China still views Catholicism with a mix of deep suspicion and general distraction. Meanwhile the faithful and pastors are caught between two very different worlds.