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A Catholic priest overseeing missionaries serving in Hong Kong reportedly told the missionarie.
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The flags of the People s Republic of China and of Vatican City. / FreshStock/Shutterstock.Vatican City, Feb 11, 2022 / 08:30 am (CNA).According to Vatican sources, the establishment of diplomatic relations with Beijing is not on the horizon, despite what some recent appointments might suggest. On Jan. 31, the Vatican said that Msgr. Arnaldo Catalan, its chargé d affaires in Taiwan, was being posted to Rwanda, where he will serve as apostolic nuncio.Days later on Feb. 5, Msgr. Javier Herrera Corona, head of the Holy See Study Mission in Hong Kong, was named apostolic nuncio to the Republic of the Congo and Gabon.The appointments leave two Vatican diplomatic missions that deal closely with China with no top officials, prompting the question of whether the Holy See is changing its diplomatic strategy.The Holy See did have a nunciature in Beijing. But in 1949, when Mao Zedong took power, China and the Holy See broke off relations. The apostolic internuncio Archbishop Antonio Riber.
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