evidence: ROME – Next week a high-profile conference will be held marking the centenary of the Catholic Church’s first ever council in China, drawing a slew of experts and featuring prominent Vatican speakers, including Pope Francis. [...] The conference, organized in collaboration with Fides News, a missionary news site attached to the Vatican’s Dicastery for Evangelization, is slated to feature a slew of high-profile speakers from the Vatican and China, including Pope Francis and a bishop who was initially appointed without his approval. [...] Parolin will then deliver a keynote address to open the afternoon session, which will also feature talks by Father Flavio Belluomini, an archivist in the Vatican’s Dicastery for Evangelization, and Italian layman Gianni Valente, director of Fides News.