The pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) reported Friday that at least ten priests of the underground Catholic Church have been arrested in Baoding, China, since the beginning of 2022.
by Wang Zhicheng in AsiaNews, which asserted that the controversial Vatican agreement with the Chinese Communist Party over the naming of bishops “has not stopped the persecution against the underground community.”involves forced participation in political reeducation sessions “with the aim of coercing them to join the official Church,” Wang wrote, which in turn “entails joining and submitting to the Chinese Communist Party.
The Catholic community of Baoding is one of the oldest in China. Its bishop, James Su Zhimin, has spent a total of 40 years in prison and has not been seen since 2003, ACNPolice hang around outside an underground Catholic community just outside the city of Baoding in northern Hebei province, a stronghold of China’s underground church, on April 6, 2005.
“Today I again join many, including the bishop’s relatives, and ask President Xi Jinping: Where is Bishop Su?” Smith said. “What have you done in secret to this extraordinary man of God?” Smith asked. “And why does a powerful dictatorship fear peaceful men and women of faith and virtue?” Diplomatic relations ended between China and the Holy See in 1951, following China’s expulsion of all foreign missionaries. Chinese Catholics then split between the state-controlled Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association and the underground Church faithful to Rome.
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