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Date: Thursday 28th of March 2024 at 07:03:pm

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Chinese Government detains catholic bishop
Chinese authorities have detained a Catholic Bishop, Pietro Shao Zhumin for resisting demands to join China’s Communist Party-controlled church body. A Catholic news service reports that Bishop Zhumin’s detention was against recent moves by Beijing toward reconciliation. Asia News reported that the bishop dropped out of sight several days ago, but gave no details other than saying he had been subjected to “dozens of days of indoctrination as in the times of the Cultural Revolution,” a reference to Mao Zedong’s radical 1966-76 attack on traditional Chinese culture, religion and the intelligentsia. Zhumin was appointed by the pope in 2016 and posted to the southeastern city of Wenzhou, which has a large Christian community. Officials reached the local religious affairs bureau, a department regulating the Catholic church and police headquarters on Friday by phone, but they said they had no knowledge of Zhumin’s situation and refused to give their names. The Cleric’s disappearance follows a breakthrough agreement to give Chinese authority a say over the appointment of bishops that critics called a cave-in to the ruling party just as it is waging a sweeping crackdown on religion. Others characterised it as an imperfect but much-needed step toward uniting Catholics in the world’s most populous country. The Vatican has long hoped to bring together China’s 12 million Catholics who are divided between those worshipping in state-sanctioned churches and the underground priests and parishioners loyal to the pope, who are frequently detained and harassed. Details of the September agreement haven’t been released, although analysts say the Vatican will retain the power to put forward candidates while Beijing will likely have the right to refuse them. Vanguard reports that Such moves are seen as a concession on the Vatican’s part in the face of Beijing’s assertion that it would not allow “foreign forces” to govern the country’s faith groups. Under president and Communist Party leader Xi Jinping, the authorities have in recent months cracked down heavily on Protestants, Catholics, Muslims and Buddhists in the name of national security and the “Sinosization” of religion. Source: NAN

By: Anne Clement Bassey

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