Vatican Grants Platform to Pro-Beijing Chinese Bishop
The Vatican offered a speaking platform this week to Shanghai Bishop Joseph Shen Bin who used the occasion to promote the “Sinicization” of the Catholic Church in China.
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Report: China Intensifies Crackdown on Christian House Churches
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has initiated a new spate of persecution against house churches and underground Christian communities, True North reported Saturday.
Report: China Gives Vatican ‘Slap in the Face’ over Naming of Bishops
China has eliminated any role for the pope or the Vatican in the appointment and consecration of Catholic bishops in its newly published norms for religious clergy.
Chinese Communists Arrest Underground Priests, Nuns, and Seminarians
Security officials of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) forcibly carried off three underground Catholic priests and more than a dozen nuns and seminarians last Monday in Baoding, according to local sources.
Cardinal Zen: Chinese Underground Church More and More ‘Abandoned’
The redoubtable Cardinal Joseph Zen has once again denounced Vatican diplomacy with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), saying it has left the underground Catholic Church “more and more” abandoned.
Vatican Bishop: ‘China Trusts Pope Francis’
A top Vatican bishop has confirmed Pope Francis’ wish to visit Beijing and establish formal diplomatic ties with the country, as reported Monday in China’s state-run Global Times.
Gov’t-Approved Chinese Bishop Insists State Is Above Religion
Chinese Bishop John Fang Xingyao, president of the state-run Catholic Patriotic Association, said last week that allegiance to the nation must always predominate over allegiance to God.
Chinese Authorities Abduct Underground Bishop for ‘Isolation and Indoctrination’
Government officials arrested a bishop of the “underground” Chinese Catholic Church on Friday, sentencing him without trial to a period of “isolation and indoctrination” following the signing of an accord between the Vatican and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Chinese Government Removes Underground Priests for Holding Summer Youth Camp
Communist officials have replaced two underground Gansu province parish priests who were accused of holding a summer camp for a youth group at their church.
