Plea Over Missing Underground Chinese Bishop

UCA News ^ | 5/8/19

[marshmallow]

Nephew fears for 87-year-old Bishop Su who has not been seen in public since 2003

The nephew of an underground Chinese bishop who has been missing for 23 years has appealed for information about his whereabouts.

Su Tianyou said he does not even know if Bishop James Su Zhimin of Baoding in Hebei province is still alive.

“His whereabouts are unknown and I don’t even know if he is alive or not. I am upset with tears every time I think of this 87-year-old man. Please pray for him,” he said.

Bishop Su was arrested in 1996 and deemed a "counter-revolutionary" by the communist government for refusing to join the government-sanctioned Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association. He escaped detention in 1997 before being rearrested. His family discovered him by chance at a Baoding hospital in 2003. He has not been seen in public since.

Su Tianyou told ucanews.com that in 2015 he had met Guo Wei, a religious affairs official who was involved in China-Vatican negotiations at that time. Guo told him to wait for an improvement in China-Vatican relations before Bishop Su could be released, he said.

Although the relationship appeared to improve when Beijing and the Vatican signed a provisional agreement on bishop appointments last September, there is still no information about missing clergy and even more have been taken away by authorities.

[Jyotishi]

Didn’t obey the country’s laws?

[ebb tide]

Nephew fears for 87-year-old Bishop Su who has not been seen in public since 2003

It's shame neither Bergoglio nor Parolin feared for Bishop Su when they made their secret pact with the red devils.

[Truthoverpower]

This is my point exactly

Why the hell should we do any business with these Chinese totalitarian communist thugs who murder and slave and torture their own people?

Plain and simply we should demand they reform their totalitarian Ways or we won’t do any business with them - zero nada zilch

Remember Tiananmen Square