Vatican Should Abandon Beijing Agreement

These are dark times for religious freedom in China — and when Pope Francis tells Reuters that he looks forward to renewing a controversial Sino–Vatican agreement, they get darker still.

At home, the Chinese Communist Party is openly pursuing the largest-scale genocide in the world. Abroad, it has tacitly sanctioned Vladimir Putin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, which has seen Russia kidnap and forcibly relocate over a million men, women, and children and given rise to numerous other atrocities.

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James Jay Carafano

James Jay Carafano is a vice president of the Heritage Foundation, where he directs research on matters of national security and foreign relations.

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Stefano Graziosi

Stefano Graziosi is an essayist and political analyst who writes for the Italian newspaper La Verità and the weekly magazine Panorama.

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These are dark times for religious freedom in China — and when Pope Francis tells Reuters that he looks forward to renewing a controversial Sino–Vatican agreement, they get darker still.

At home, the Chinese Communist Party is openly pursuing the largest-scale genocide in the world. Abroad, it has tacitly sanctioned Vladimir Putin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, which has seen Russia kidnap and forcibly relocate over a million men, women, and children and given rise to numerous other atrocities.