During the Taiwanese Bishops' first ad limina visit in Rome for 10 years, they all took time to introduce themselves to Pope Francis. <\/p>\n
\u201cBishop Philip Huang, from Diocese of Hualien. Nice to meet you.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Some even took the opportunity to give him gifts. <\/p>\n \u201cYour Holiness, nice to meet you. I am John Lee from Hsinchu Diocese.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Then, the pope gleefully went and sat in the midst of the seven bishops in attendance. They spoke about their upcoming Eucharistic Congress of Taiwan in 2019.<\/p>\n The bishops also presented two gifts to the pope. The first was a piece of art from the Franz Porcelain Collection based on work by Giuseppe Castiglione, an Italian missionary who served as a Qing court painter. The second piece was a large painting by Taiwanese artist Shen Chen.<\/p>\n The topics of conversation also likely touched on the relationship between the Vatican and Beijing, since the pope has spoken of his desire for better relations with China. <\/p>\n Yet, this meeting confirms the Holy See's good-standing relationship with Taiwan, which is the country's only European diplomatic ally. However, if the situation with Beijing advances, many fear the Vatican's ties with Taiwan will end. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" May 14, 2018. This meeting confirms the Holy See's good-standing relationship with Taiwan, which is the country's only European diplomatic ally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23188,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/4iblMuAeZNY","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/btaiwanbishopseng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/btaiwanbishopsint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49384"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}