{"id":324,"date":"2007-11-26T16:13:03","date_gmt":"2007-11-26T16:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/2007\/11\/vatican-no-meeting-planned-bet.php"},"modified":"2007-11-26T16:13:03","modified_gmt":"2007-11-26T16:13:03","slug":"vatican-no-meeting-planned-bet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2007\/11\/vatican-no-meeting-planned-bet","title":{"rendered":"Vatican: No Meeting Planned Between Pope and Dalai Lama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> Associated Press &#8211; November 26, 2007 <\/strong><br \/>\nVATICAN CITY &#8211; There are no plans for a meeting between Pope Benedict XVI and the Dalai Lama next month when the Tibetan spiritual leader comes to Italy, the Vatican said Monday.<br \/>\nItalian news agencies, without identifying their sources, had reported on Oct. 31 that Benedict planned to meet with him at the Vatican.<br \/>\nBut Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi said Monday that there were no plans for such a meeting.<br \/>\nThe Dalai Lama&#8217;s recent meetings with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and U.S. President George W. Bush have drawn rebukes from Beijing.<br \/>\nBenedict met with the Dalai Lama last year in what the Vatican had described as a private visit. This year, Benedict has stepped up efforts to improve Church relations with China. Formal ties with Beijing were broken after the Communists came to power.<br \/>\nThe Tibetan spiritual leader is scheduled to give a religious lecture in Milan in December and then will visit Rome, according to his entourage.<br \/>\nThe Dalai Lama insists he only seeks autonomy for Tibet, which China has occupied since 1951. The Chinese government claims he wants to split the region from China.<br \/>\n<em>Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. 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