{"id":131018,"date":"2025-06-12T13:37:37","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T13:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=131018"},"modified":"2025-06-12T13:37:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T13:37:37","slug":"beijing-hoping-for-closer-ties-with-vatican-as-pope-names-first-chinese-bishop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=131018","title":{"rendered":"Beijing hoping for closer ties with Vatican as pope names first Chinese bishop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina said it was willing to promote better relations with the Vatican after the appointment of the first Chinese bishop under the new pope.<br \/>\nOn Wednesday, the Vatican said Pope Leo had named Joseph Lin Yuntuan, 73, as an auxiliary bishop in Fuzhou, capital of the southwestern province of Fujian, on June 5.<br \/>\nThe appointment continues an agreement reached under Leo\u2019s predecessor, Pope Francis, that bishops must be approved by both sides.<br \/>\nThe announcement was made on the same day that Beijing&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3314200\/beijing-hoping-closer-ties-vatican-after-pope-leo-names-first-chinese-bishop?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina said it was willing to promote better relations with the Vatican after the appointment of the first Chinese bishop under the new pope.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131018"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}