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On May 21, 2021, Bishop Zhang Weizhu was arrested; the day before, seven priests and ten seminarians had been arrested. [ 2 ] On May 20, 2021 in the early afternoon, about 100 policemen from Hebei province - from Cangzhou, Hejian and Shaheqiao - surrounded the building that is used as a diocesan seminary in Shaheqiao, Hebei.
Julius Jia Zhiguo (born 5 June 1934) is an underground bishop of the Roman Catholic Church in the People's Republic of China. Bishop Jia was ordained priest on 7 June 1980 and consecrated bishop half year later, on 19 December 1980. [1] He had been jailed for as long as 20 years, but had been released before he disappeared.
"These nongovernmental organizations and Catholic charities have pushed a mind-blowing number of illegals into our country over the past four years," said Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN).
Michael Joseph Begley (March 12, 1909 – February 9, 2002) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the first bishop of the Diocese of Charlotte in North Carolina, serving from 1972 until 1984.
He studied in France, Germany and Italy, before returning to China in 1951. He was arrested with his bishop and dozens of clergy and laity in 1955, [1] during major crackdown against the “counterrevolutionary clique” of Ignatius Kung Pin-mei of Shanghai. Shortly after his arrest, he began to cooperate with the Chinese government. [1]
Rosenthal, Elisabeth. (October 6, 2002) The New York Times In China, Catholic Churches Flourish, but Under Controls. Section: 1; Page 11. Agence France-Presse (January 11, 1997) China in full-scale campaign to wipe out secret Catholics: report BEIJING, Jan 11 (AFP) - China has launched a hard-hitting campaign to wipe out all trace of its unauthorized Catholic church, the US-based Cardinal Kung ...
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Anthony Zhang Gangyi (Chinese: 张刚毅, 1907 – 1997) was a Chinese Franciscan priest from Shaanxi. During World War II, he was a chaplain of a prison in Fascist Italy, where he assisted the escape of prisoners. He was later imprisoned by the People's Republic of China from 1959 to 1979, and again in 1989. He hosted the first conference of ...