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Pope in Mongolia/ Sends clear message to China about Catholic goals

2023-09-02 19:55:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

Pope in Mongolia/ Sends clear message to China about Catholic goals

Pope Francis appeared to seek to reassure China on Saturday, using a gathering of Catholic missionaries in Mongolia to declare that governments have "nothing to fear" from the Catholic Church.

The comments came during the first papal visit to the new democracy sandwiched between China and Russia, where the 86-year-old pontiff has hoped not only to encourage the small Catholic community but also to use his presence at China's back door to improve the state of the Vatican. relations with Beijing.

"Governments and secular institutions have nothing to fear from the Church's work of evangelization because it has no political agenda to advance..." the 86-year-old pope said during a speech at St. Peter's Cathedral and Paul in the Mongolian capital.

The Beijing Communist Party is wary of the Catholic Church in its territory and exercises strict control over all recognized religious institutions.

The Holy See renewed an agreement last year with Beijing, allowing both sides to have a say in the appointment of bishops in China, a move critics have called a dangerous concession by the Vatican in exchange for a presence in the country.

Beijing has never extended an invitation to visit Francis.

The apparent message to China came on Francis' second day in Ulaanbaatar, where earlier Saturday he was greeted with an official welcome ceremony that included a phalanx of Mongolian horsemen in metal armor parading in front of the State Palace.

He greeted a crowd of more than a thousand people at the side of President Ukhnaa Khurelsukh, in front of a massive bronze statue of Genghis Khan.

Calling himself a "pilgrim of friendship," Francis extolled the country's virtues, including its nomadic people "respecting the delicate balances of the ecosystem."

Mongolia është dëmtuar nga korrupsioni dhe degradimi i mjedisit vitet e fundit, me kryeqytetin e saj që vuan nga cilësia më e keqe e ajrit në botë dhe një skandal përvetësimi që shkaktoi protesta në rrugë vitin e kaluar./ CNA





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