China ordains new Vatican-approved bishop: reports
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China's official Catholic church has installed a new Vatican-approved bishop, the third in a month, state media and a Rome-based religious news agency reported on Saturday.
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A senior official in China's state-sanctioned Catholic Church said in comments published Tuesday that he would like Pope Benedict XVI to visit China.
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The Archbishop of Canterbury will pay his first visit to China in October, his office and China's state-sanctioned Protestant church has said.
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Chinese authorities have told senior  religious leaders in a Tibetan area to urge the faithful to  show more support for a top monk anointed by Beijing and on  whom the future of the restive region may ride.
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China's Ministry of Health issues a statement highlighting the country's new rules on organ transplants.
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VIENNA -- Pope John Paul II officially named yesterday a prelate who investigated a child pornography scandal at a seminary to replace the bishop who resigned in the case, which rocked Austria's Roman Catholic Church and triggered an exodus of embittered believers.
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NEWARK, N.J., Sept 23 (Reuters Life!) - The Episcopal   Diocese of Newark elected a Massachusetts cleric as its next   bishop on Saturday, passing over a gay priest whose selection   would have touched off more turmoil in the worldwide Anglican   church.
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Pope Benedict XVI felt "great sorrow" that China had ordained another bishop without papal approval, the Vatican said Saturday.
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The Vatican praises the man set to become the bishop of Beijing, even though he was not selected by the Pope.
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Pope Benedict has given his backing to Beijing's new state-approved Catholic bishop, the official Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano said on Friday, hours after Li Shan was installed in the Chinese capital.
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VATICAN CITY, June 30 -- Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday made his most significant attempt to unite millions of Chinese Catholics, urging the underground faithful and followers of the state-run church to overcome decades of animosity and distrust.
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Pope Benedict on Saturday named  Kazimierz Nycz, a bishop with a spotless record, as archbishop  of Warsaw to replace a prelate who resigned in disgrace after  admitting he spied for the communist police.
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VATICANO - Comunicato della Sala Stampa della Santa Sede circa lÂordinazione episcopale illegittima a Xuzhou (Cina Continentale) CittÃ  del Vaticano (Agenzia Fides) - La Santa Sede si sente in dovere di far conoscere la sua posizione in merito allÂordinazione episcopale del sacerdote Giovanni Wang Renlei, che ha avuto luogo giovedÃ¬, 30 novembre u.s., a Xuzhou nella provincia di...
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The Vatican issues new guidelines which will make the process of verifying saints more rigorous.
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In his most significant address on China to date, Pope Benedict on Saturday decried state restrictions on religious freedom that "suffocate" the Church and sow division among the country's Catholics.
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A U.S. State Department report on  China's controls of religious practices amounted to  "groundless" interference in the country's internal affairs, a  Chinese foreign ministry spokesman said late on Monday.
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WASHINGTON, DC - In an apparent affirmation of church tradition, Bishop William Skylstad of Spokane yesterday was elected president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops at its annual fall meeting.