Yining’s Sacred Heart Church to Be Torn Down [China]

AsiaNews ^ | 2/19/21 | Wang Zhicheng

[marshmallow]

The church was built in 2000, with all the permits and praise of the local authorities. There are two reasons for the destruction: the land’s commercial value and erasing the "showy" symbolism of the religious building. The policy of "sinicization" launched by Xi Jinping and implemented in Zhejiang and Xijiang. 16,000 mosques were also destroyed or damaged. The appeal to the Pope and the Vatican.

Yining (AsiaNews) - From today, 19 February, the Catholics of Yining (Xinjiang) must clear out everything of the Sacred Heart church. By order of the local authorities the church must be destroyed. "Perhaps – says one AsiaNews source - from next week this Catholic church on the western border of China will disappear into dust".

The community of Yining, in the Yili district, is located 700 km west of Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang. The Catholics of the district - about 2 thousand - are made up of former exiles from the time of the Qing Empire and, after 1949 with the People's Republic of China, of immigrants and confined to forced labor camps in the region.

The strange fact is that the church is in possession of all of the nexessary permits from the Administration for Religious Affairs. Built in the year 2000, Yili district officials and Yining government authorities even attended its inauguration, praising the construction.

The authorities did not disclose the reason for the demolition. But most suspect that the church is being destroyed to use the land and build a commercial area in its place. In fact, the church stands along the road that leads to the airport and in the urban plans, this road will become increasingly important.

The point is that the place where the church stands was chosen in 1993 by the city government precisely because it was far.......

[littleharbour]

Communists continue to think that persecution can destroy real Faith. They learned nothing from the tribulations of the early Church.

[joma89]

This is our future with democrats in charge.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Democrats did the same thing to a neighborhood in Connecticut, the case of Kelo v. City of New London. Property owners lost their case in the end in 2005 when John Paul Stevens, Anthony Kennedy, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer ruled that the state can sieze land from private citizens for the use of developers.

[fidelis]

This is our future with democrats in charge.

A few years ago this could have been dismissed as hyperbole. But since COVID we now know what the Left is capable of if they want to do it. Anything is possible under the pretense of the public good and people go along with it like sheep led dumbly to the slaughter. Unless they are stopped, soon they will be like the CCP and won't even bother to have a pretense to do whatever they want to keep us under their control.

[fidelis]

This is our future with democrats in charge.

A few years ago this could have been dismissed as hyperbole. But since COVID we now know what the Left is capable of if they want to do it. Anything is possible under the pretense of the public good and people go along with it like sheep led dumbly to the slaughter. Unless they are stopped, soon they will be like the CCP and won't even bother to have a pretense to do whatever they want to keep us under their control.

[hopespringseternal]

After centuries of persecution including creative and macabre ways of putting Christians to death, Rome found that there were more Christians than when they started.

The Soviet Union found the same thing.

[ebb tide]

Not a peep from Bergoglio nor Parolin.