Posted on 02/12/2005 7:36:17 AM PST by MikeEdwards
It was a lonely funeral in a faraway land. Just one day after his death, the ashes of Mgr. John Gao Kexian, unofficial Catholic Bishop of Yanti, China were buried. There were no mourners, no tears, and no last rites.
Posting a link from Asia News, the website SpiritDaily was one of the few western news outlets to mark the bishop’s passing.
Denied religious comforts, the affection of his blood relatives or visitors from the outside free world, Bishop Gao languished, largely forgotten in prison for five years. In the news blackout that sealed off all information about him in the last years of his life, no one can really say what else he may have been denied in the way of human comforts, what foods he was given, what medication, if any his jailers may have patently ignored.
It was while he was out making a routine visit to parish families that the police arrested Bishop Gao. He was never to be heard from nor seen since the day of his arrest.
In a country with a checkered human rights record, and in an era where Christians are under attack, who would speak out against the imprisonment of an aging Catholic bishop?
Just recently, there was a state crackdown in China on the death of a former Communist leader who sympathized with the Tiananmen Square protests. . . . .
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Again, nice communist reeducation. You seriously need to get out in a free society and out of your evil echo chamber.
Really.
And your proof would be?
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