Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/09/07
By: Emmanuelle Tzeng and Frances Huang
Assisi, Italy, Sept. 6 (CNA) Republic of China Vice President Chen Chien-jen (陳建仁) prayed for world
From the ROC Embassy in the Vatican
peace Tuesday at a Catholic mass in Assisi, the birthplace of St. Francis of Assisi, during a visit to the Vatican.
At the mass in the San Francisco Monastery, Chen and his wife Luo Feng-ping (羅鳳蘋) read the prayers, asking for peace across the Taiwan Strait and in the rest of the world.
The couple also prayed for Pope Francis and other officials in the Vatican, the people of Taiwan and the global environment.
Chen is a Catholic and took the English name Francis, same as the pope, after St. Francis of Assisi, a 12th century Italian Roman Catholic friar who was known for his affinity with nature and was said to have preached to birds. [FULL STORY]