Italian Reverend Pleads for Release of Hong Kong Political Prisoners Before Lunar New Year
Mella added, “the main issue is that there are still thousands of people in jail. Many nameless young people are still detained in prison.” The reverend believed detaining political prisoners was also why people chose to leave Hong Kong, and maybe Hong Kong could return to normal again if the detained prisoners were set free.
Cardinal Zen, Barrister Margaret Ng and Others Released Following Four Hong Kong National Security Arrests
Police said the arrestees were trustees of the 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund, which supported thousands of protesters during the 2019 unrest by providing legal assistance, funds for psychological counselling and medical treatment and emergency relief.
Catholics Increasingly Harassed Ahead Vatican-China Deal Renewal
“We’d rather be arrested and imprisoned then fill out these applications,” one of the nuns said. “After the forms are filled out, they would summon us to attend training classes in the provincial capital Shijiazhuang, where we would be indoctrinated with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) iideology, as they do it to priests.”
China’s Other Virus, Religious Persecution: Christian Solidarity Worldwide
MASSIMO INTROVIGNE | BITTER WINTER A+ | A- In its new report about China, the well-known Christian NGO denounces the increased repression of Muslim, Buddhists, Taoist, Catholics, House Churches, Falun Gong, and The Church of Almighty God On March 31, 2020, Christian Solidarity Worldwide, a London-based Christian organization and one of the most respected NGOs denouncing religious persecution […]
Prague, Taipei Sign Sister-City Deal as Shanghai Cuts Ties in Response
<!–[CDATA[ Chung Kuang-cheng | Radio Free Asia The mayor of the Czech capital has signed a sister-city agreement with Taiwan’s capital Taipei, rejecting China as “an unreliable partner” in the wake of President Tsai Ing-wen’s election victory at the weekend. Prague mayor Zdeněk Hřib, of the anti-establishment Pirate Party, announced the move after Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen won […]
The Vatican Calls on China to Stop Intimidating Papal Loyalists
VOA News The Vatican has called on China to stop intimidating Catholic clergy who are members of an underground church that is loyal to the pope. The request was included in Vatican guidelines issued to the clergy Friday in mainland China. An estimated 12 million Catholics in China are split between a government-operated association whose […]
Political Calculations Led Vatican to Agree with China on Bishop Appointment: Analysts
Joyce Huang | Voice of America In China, Catholics can only legally attend state-sanctioned churches not overseen by the Vatican, with bishops appointed by Beijing rather than the pope. But that could change soon. The Vatican and Beijing are said to be soon inking a framework agreement on the appointment of bishops in China in […]
Vatican’s China Moves Stun Chinese Catholics
James Burke | Vision Times Not long after taking power in China, the officially atheist Chinese Communist Party (CCP) broke off ties with the Vatican, but now, ongoing back-room negotiations between officials from the Holy See and Beijing could change that, much to disillusionment of many Chinese Catholics. As part of the Vatican’s 4-year-long efforts […]
Organ Trafficking Claims From Vietnam Renew Questions About Abuses in China
Larry Ong | Epoch Times During a recent international summit on organ trafficking at the Vatican, top Chinese surgeons were given a prominent opportunity to explain how they had reformed unethical practices in their country. They told the attendees, over 100 experts in the ethics of organ transplantation, that prisoners are definitely no longer used as […]
Chinese Cardinal Skeptical About Reputed Vatican-Beijing Agreement
Mo Yu | Voice of America WASHINGTON — Cardinal Joseph Zen, the most senior Roman Catholic figure in China, says he is deeply skeptical about a reputedly imminent agreement between Chinese leaders in Beijing and Pope Francis in the Vatican. Zen, the former bishop of Hong Kong, told VOA he is most concerned about the […]