Reporting of Federici Studies Center
New persecutions by the Chinese capital-communist regime against Catholics, without any reaction from the Pharisees of the West and in particular from the Italian radical-chic.
China, the persecution continues: Via Crucis demolished
A popular site among Catholics in Henan provinces, Hebei and Shanxi was shot down at night. Yes, yes “allow Catholicism to exist but not to develop”
Anyang authorities, Henan province (China), they had them demolished 14 Stations of the Cross located along the path that leads to the oldest pilgrimage site in the area, the Shrine of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Tianjiajing, a popular site among Catholics in Henan provinces, Hebei e Shanxi, which had been built by the priest of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions Father Stefano Scarsella, then apostolic vicar of northern Henan (between 1903 and the 1905).
Slate panels, which represented various moments of the Passion of Christ, accompanied by drawings and graffiti made in Chinese style and enriched by devotional comments, they were demolished with bulldozers and jackhammers, weeks after Chinese officials told Bishop Joseph Zhang Yinlin of Weihui (That's it) to dismantle the Via Crucis without specifying the reason.
The Via Crucis was demolished during the night “because the authorities feared there would be too many church members during the day”. Local nuns shot videos and took photos to document the damage, sending them to groups and online chats to keep traces of the event.
According to UCA News, one source said the Communist Party was doing so to make the government understand that “it allows Catholicism to exist but not to develop”. Since May 2007 the Henan provincial government (where the Christian population percentage is the second highest in China after Zhejiang province) had banned national pilgrimages to the site, and the Anyang city government had revoked permission to go on pilgrimage to the shrine, calling it “illegal religious activity”.
Since a cross in a Protestant church was dismantled in Henan last September 2017, the persecution had increased in the last nine months, especially against the Catholic Church.
As Asianews informs, in February this year the publication of religious leaflets was banned, crosses in a Catholic church had been demolished and nurseries run by the Church had been seized and then forced to close permanently. By April the repression had intensified, and eight out of ten dioceses in the province were abolished: That's it, Luoyang, Xinxiang, Puyang, Zhengzhou, Shangqiu, Kaifeng e Zhumadian. Furthermore, a Catholic church and a bishop's tomb had been demolished, the priests of the underground church had been expelled from their parishes, church properties were confiscated and the authorities had begun to send officials to the churches every Sunday to prevent the entry of minors.
Zhejiang province has also been at the center of persecution against Christians by the local government. And there have also been reports of churches being demolished or crosses removed in Shaanxi province and the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.(…)
Some statements by Chinese government officials are also worrying. The one who supervises religious affairs, Chen Zongrong, stated that the government's restrictions on the appointment of bishops do not constitute a violation of religious freedom because, he underlined, that religions in China must “adapt to socialist society”. “I do not agree with the idea that preventing Rome from having full control over the choice of bishops hinders religious freedom”, Chen said. “I believe there is no religion in human society that transcends nations”.
In China the Catholic Church is divided between an underground Catholic Church, faithful to the Pope, and the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association, officially recognized by Beijing, given that each bishop of this association is under the direct supervision of the Chinese Communist Party.
President Xi Jinping, who was reappointed for life last March, he urged greater government control and less foreign influence on religions in China. New restrictions have been introduced by the Chinese government on 1 last February, when it was made illegal for anyone, below the 18 years, to enter a church building. Under Xi Jinping the Chinese government is pursuing a major effort to Sinicize religion.
The Holy See is trying to negotiate with the Chinese government on the Catholic presence in China and there has been no shortage of controversy. (…)
Last February Cardinal Giuseppe Zen Zekiun, bishop emeritus of Hong Kong, he had published on his blog, in Chinese and Italian, a particularly critical intervention already in the title: “I still haven't been able to understand why they are talking to China”, where he attacked the Vatican diplomacy of Ostpolitik which, according to the cardinal, “despises the genuine faith of those who firmly defend the Church founded by Jesus on the Apostles from any interference by secular power”.
Cardinal Giuseppe Zen ,emerito in Hong Kong, he was always clear in his sentences. Less so were both the”emeritus” Ratzinger “the theologian from Tübingen” both the current one and one that hangs out in China in words, helping to better devastate the Catholic belief. I await the moment when Chinese Catholics begin to realize that loyalty to the papacy matters,but not to the sitting Vaticans !
Add that Xin -Jin-ping , Chinese president, it also incorporated three other powers and appointed the anti-Catholic regent par excellence as its advisor, and one can understand how criminal Bergoglio's politics are…