A total of 3,964 people have been kidnapped in Nigeria since May 2023 and the start of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's term in office, according to risk management consulting firm SBM Intelligence Photo: El País

China and Vatican: positive signals, but there is a silence that weighs on us

The three recent appointments of bishops indicate a willingness not to break. But the Agreement with the Vatican is never even mentioned by the People’s Republic of China. While a «five-year plan» for Catholics has just come into force that cites Xi Jinping instead of the pope and invokes a «theological foundation» to a Sinicization that in fact remains only an adaptation to Party policy.