VATICAN CITY—A senior Vatican official says that he and many of his colleagues aren’t yet persuaded that speaking out about the protest movement in Hong Kong “would make any difference whatever.” At a press conference held on June 25 that was focused on the Vatican’s upcoming Day of Prayer and Reflection for Lebanon, The Epoch Times asked British Archbishop Paul Gallagher, the Holy See’s secretary for relations with states (equivalent to a foreign minister) to comment on similar unrest in Hong Kong. The Epoch Times asked, “With the financial and political upheaval—and especially the popular unrest against political corruption we have seen in Lebanon and the greater region—what makes this situation different to the Holy See and the Secretariat of State (outside, of course, the strategic location) from the popular uprisings in Hong Kong—where Catholic leaders have been incarcerated, and a request for support has been personally brought by Cardinal Joseph Zen over …
Vatican Foreign Minister: Church Sees No Positive Contribution to Make in Hong Kong
June 26, 2021
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