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Religious Policy in China Before and After the Sino-Vatican Agreement
AsiaNews ^ | 9/12/19 | Bernardo Cervellera

Posted on 09/17/2019 4:52:48 PM PDT by marshmallow

Beijing is implementing total control over the Church and religious communities. For some Chinese priests there is a re-edition of the Cultural Revolution. But in reality China is implementing a project that dates back to the 1980s: the Chinese Church is a national church that belongs only to the state.

Siegburg (AsiaNews) - From August 10 to September 1, the 10th European Catholic China Colloquium ECCC “Laudato Si’ and Technoscience – Implications with Focus on the Church in China” was held in Siegburg, near Cologne (Germany). Organized by the China Zentrum of St Augustin, the meeting saw the presence of international personalities, as well as others from Hong Kong, Taiwan and popular China. Among the guests, also the director of AsiaNews, who was given the task of presenting some notes on the persecution in China, with the theme "Aspects of religious politics in China". Below we publish his report.

Churches closed or destroyed; crosses torn down from bell towers or ripped from the walls of the churches; domes razed to the ground; ancient statues of shrines seized; religious signs removed from inside and outside homes; priests driven out of their ministry; others forced to return to their village of origin; young people under the age of 18 blocked and stopped in front of churches because they are not allowed to enter or receive any religious instruction.

These are some of the realities of life in the Catholic Church in China. For some Chinese priests it is a new cultural revolution, perhaps without the original iconoclastic fury and chaos. In reality, these situations respond to a very precise project, which is not at all chaotic, indeed pursued with precision and systematic capillarity and it began several years ago.

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1 posted on 09/17/2019 4:52:48 PM PDT by marshmallow
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2 posted on 09/17/2019 5:24:33 PM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome)
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On that last day Pope Francis will have to answer for his loathsome treachery.


3 posted on 09/17/2019 5:50:40 PM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: marshmallow

Bump


4 posted on 09/17/2019 6:48:10 PM PDT by foreverfree
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