{"id":38719,"date":"2017-08-04T05:57:53","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T05:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=38719"},"modified":"2017-08-04T05:57:53","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T05:57:53","slug":"pope-loves-china-vatican-official-says-trip-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/pope-loves-china-vatican-official-says-trip-china.html","title":{"rendered":"Pope ‘loves China’, Vatican official says on trip to China"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pope ‘loves China’, Vatican official says on trip to China<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Pope ‘loves China’, Vatican official says on trip to China:- Pope Francis “loves China” and the Vatican hopes China has a great future, a Chinese state-run newspaper on Friday cited a visiting Vatican official as saying, in an expression of goodwill despite strained relations between the two.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pope Francis would like to heal a decades-old rift with China, where Catholics are divided between those loyal to him and those who belong to a government-controlled official church.<\/span><\/p>\n

In June, China said it opposed outside interference in its internal affairs after the Vatican expressed concern about a Chinese bishop it said had been “removed”.<\/span><\/p>\n

Speaking in Beijing where he was attending an organ transplant conference, the head of the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Monsignor Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, expressed the Pope’s goodwill, the state-run Global Times reported.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Pope Francis loves China and loves the people of China, its history and population. We hope China can have a great future,” the paper quoted him as saying.<\/span><\/p>\n

In February, China’s Foreign Ministry downplayed the significance of a top health official’s attendance at a Vatican conference on organ trafficking, saying it probably had nothing to do with two-way ties.<\/span><\/p>\n

One obstacle to better relations is the question of who should make senior clerical appointments in China.<\/span><\/p>\n

China says bishops must be named by the Chinese Catholic community and refuses to accept the authority of the pope, whom it sees as the head of a foreign state that has no right to meddle in China’s affairs.<\/span><\/p>\n

The two sides have been at loggerheads since the expulsion of foreign missionaries from China after the Communists took power in 1949.<\/span><\/p>\n

Another source of friction is the Vatican’s maintenance of official ties with self-ruled Taiwan, which Beijing sees as a wayward province to be taken back by force if necessary.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-china-vatican-idUSKBN1AK06K<\/span><\/p>\n

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