But Farr also wants Pope Francis to demand Chinese concessions for Tibetan Buddhists as well as for Catholics in China. “This is the real significance of the Dalai Lama to the Roman Catholic ...

Vatican-China ties have already broken new ground on Francis' first Asian trip, with Beijing agreeing to let Francis' Alitalia charter fly through its airspace; when St. John Paul II last came to ...

Pope Francis smiles at journalists as he wraps up a news conference aboard his flight back to Rome Sept. 13, 2024, after visiting Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste and Singapore.

But when it comes to China, where he is hoping his church will make inroads, Francis is much more forgiving. The pope’s delicate — critics say doormat — diplomacy in the region was ...

Pope Francis pursues his aim and does not look at geopolitical balances; he even included China in Cardinal Matteo Zuppi’s tour to find a solution to the Ukrainian crisis — a “solution ...

Pope Francis appointed a peace envoy, the Cardinal Matto Zuppi, to meet with political leaders in Ukraine, Russia, the U.S. and China to attempt to promote a peaceful resolution to the conflict.

When Francis became Pope in 2013, the Vatican was “in a dilemma and a no-win situation” when it came to China, Jonathan Tan, a professor of Catholic Studies at Case Western Reserve University ...

Gerard O’Connell is America ’s Vatican correspondent and author of The Election of Pope Francis: An Inside Story of the Conclave That Changed History. He has been covering the Vatican since 1985.

Pope Francis’ trip to Mongolia will be closely watched by Russia and China Pope Francis, shown in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, will become the first pontiff to visit Mongolia.

Pope Francis Sunday entrusted China to the Blessed Virgin Mary, and asked all people to pray for a new outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon the most populated country in the world.