Melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us the Catholic Church has renewed a deal it made 2 years ago with china which is an officially atheist communist state concerning bishops there the agreement now gives the pope a file say over the appointment of them but beijing is the one who gets to come up with the choices chinese authorities had previously selected bishops without the say of the vatican and a division formed between state sanctioned clergy and underground bishops who operated outside state control the former bishop of Hong Kong Cardinal joseph dan has spoken up about this a prodemocrat he has expressed concern over the churchs engagement with china heres the interview with cardinal to china and the facts occurred recently renewed a secretive agreement signed 2 years ago it allowed the. With beijing and the holy c. S. A. In appointing bishops in china salma Hong Kong Bishop Cardinal Joseph sand accused the secretary of state cardinal pyra lynn of betraying the
Were going to be covering the republican frontrunner donald trump tonight. Hes said to address this pep rally in mobile, alabama. It is projected to be, by the campaign, the largest rally of 2016 primary season. So far with some 40,000 folks in attendance, as we listen to the national anthem, the only other 2016 president ial candidate to come close to that size crowd, democratic candidate Bernie Sanders, he pulled in 28,000 in portland, oregon earlier this month. The closest republican in the run for the greatest attendance to an event is senator ted cruz, he drew some 11,000 at his president ial announcement, way back in march, but this is the interesting thing about the cruz announcement, and please, folks, who support senator cruz, were just putting the facts in place. His announcement took place at liberty universitys convocation, and students at liberty are required to attend the event. So he threw in a Campaign Announcement of his own in the midst of it. Trump is proving to be t
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This is Al Jazeera America, live from new york city, im Randall Pinkston, pope francis now is in southeast cuba in the city where fidel and brother rual castro grew up and celebrated mass this for tens of thousands of cubans, this is the first time a pope has ever visited the city and pope francis is credited with helping u. S. And cuba restart diplomatic relations after more than 50 years. David is live for us in havana and david im sure you have seen many incredible sights during your visit there watching the pope, such a busy day he has had, what has been most impressive for you . Well, you know, im telling you its hard to think of a more impressive sight than hundreds of thousands in havana and he is 150,000 gathering had gathered there and just the sheer numbers of people who turn out to see this pope, not only here in cuba but across the region and mexico and honduras and nicaragua and a pontiff coming to cuba with a new relationship between the United States and cuba so pope fra
Think its safe to say that this is probably going to be his favorite stop during his whole trip here in new york, to see these children and their faces glowing, just to get this opportunity to meet pope francis. Ive had the opportunity to interview some of these kids that will have the oneonone time with pope francis. It was pretty school. They said he is pretty cool to have a pope that actually has an online social media account. They love reading his tweets. They love trying to get an opportunity to communicate with him. They said that he is the pope that is actually encouraging kids to feel proud of their faith, to get more involved with their spiritual life. And they are really very much inspired by him. They say hes kind of a celebrity, kind of up there with the likes of maybe kobe bryant thats how they look at him. Not just proud of their faith, hazel, but also proud of their heritage, their ancestry, where they came from. Dont hide it, embrace it and nurture it. And be open to o