News tagged with "china"

Debates continue over bishop’s installation

The installation of Coadjutor Bishop Francis An Shuxin as the bishop of Baoding’s ‘open’ Church community has continued to provoke intense debate.
Since his installation on Aug. 7, questions have been raised on Chinese Catholic websites over what the status of the former ‘underground’ coadjutor will be, with the concurrent presence of Bishop James Su Zhimin [...]

Rights situation ‘worsens’ in China

Rights groups say they are concerned about the apparently worsening situation of human rights advocacy in mainland China.
In its 2009 report, released on April 26, the Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) said the government’s clampdown on NGOs, activists, human rights lawyers, citizen journalists and whistle-blowers is a “a serious attack” on civil society.
Last year was [...]

Church rushes aid to China’s quake victims

Church organizations in mainland China are mobilizing resources to assist quake victims in Qinghai province, northwestern China.
On April 14 morning, Yushu county in the southern Qinghai was hit by a 7.1-magnitude earthquake which killed 589 people and injured another 10,000.
The Relief Department of Jinde Charities in Hebei province has contacted its local Church partner on [...]

Catholic webs’ struggle harder than Google’s

Google’s decision to withdraw its search engine from mainland China due to censorship came as no surprise to Catholic webmasters and bloggers who say they have to struggle to spread the Gospel because of state pressure.
Google launched its Chinese interface in 2000 and entered mainland China, the world’s biggest Internet market with 400 million netizens, [...]

Vatican to issue two Asian stamps

The Vatican has announced it is issuing two postage stamps with Asian themes - one featuring pioneering Jesuit missioner Father Matteo Ricci and another to commemorate the visit of Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej to Blessed Pope John XXIII in 1960.
The Vatican and Thailand will collaborate on the King Bhumipol stamp, L’Osservatore Romano reported earlier this [...]

Beijing benefits from Zen attack

Criticism of Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun in a magazine with such an international readership as “30 Giorni” is counter-productive and tantamount to washing our dirty linen in public. These matters would be best handled by the inner circle, through meetings such as the Holy See’s China Commission.
The only beneficiary of this action is the Communist [...]

Card. Zen says criticism groundless

Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, retired bishop of Hong Kong, says criticism of his role in interpreting the 2007 papal letter to Catholics in China was “unfair” and “groundless”.
The Italian Catholic magazine “30 Giorni” (30 Days) criticized the cardinal’s role which it described as looking “out beyond the ordinary and self-inspired”.
The article defended the decision of [...]

Illicit Chinese bishops’ ups and downs

A decade after their controversial ordinations, three Chinese bishops have recalled the different paths their lives have taken since then.
The ordination of a total of five bishops without papal mandate in Beijing’s Immaculate Conception Cathedral (South Church) on Jan. 6, 2000, sent shockwaves through the Church around the world.
Although China has been electing and ordaining [...]

Christmas party raises record sum for orphans

The Church’s Jinde Charities has collected a record 300,000 yuan (US$43,900) at its annual Christmas fundraising party, 40 percent more than last year.
The money will be used to support one year of living and medical expenses for 100 orphans, with physical and intellectual disabilities, who are in Church care nationwide, says organizer Hu Limin.The party [...]

Chinese camp for five church leaders

Five members of an unregistered Chinese Protestant church have been sentenced to two years in a labor camp following a police raid on their church, a monitoring group said Dec. 3.
The report comes less than a week after five leaders of the same church in the northern province of Shanxi were sentenced to prison terms of [...]

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