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Catholic Church in China Part II: Persecution and Confusion This is the concluding part of this article (Part I was published in Issue 65) and is based on the speech that Joseph Kung gave at our Fatima 2000 Peace Conference in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Joseph Kung is a nephew of the great Cardinal Kung, who suffered a dry martyrdom for the Roman Catholic Faith. The Chinese Communists imprisoned Cardinal Kung for over 32 years for being the leading Roman Catholic Bishop in China. He would not betray the Pope nor the Catholic Church by joining the false Catholic Patriotic Association...

5 March, 2005 CHINA - VATICAN List of bishops and priests in prison, isolation or labor camps Rome (AsiaNews) – Here is a list of bishops held in prison or prevented from exercising their ministry, and priests who were arrested and sentenced to forced labor. AsiaNews and other Christian websites are launching a campaign for their liberation. The list, which is updated to March 1, 2005, is very likely incomplete. Bishops arrested without leaving any trace Like Latin American ‘desaparecidos’ these bishops were arrested by the police without any charges brought against them. Any trace of them has been lost...