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: Father John George
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: The United States Congress[house of Reps]
: implicitly at least reflects my plea for
: Hague arbitration
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: H. Res. 804
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: In the House of Representatives, U. S.,
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: June 12, 2006.
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: Whereas the Catholic Patriotic Association
: of China is a government-sanctioned
: organization that does not represent the
: majority of Chinese Catholics, and has been
: used by the Government of the People’s
: Republic of China to oppress Catholics who
: choose to remain loyal to the Pope as their
: spiritual leader;
:
: Whereas on April 30, 2006, the Chinese
: Government-sanctioned Catholic Patriotic
: Association of China conducted an
: unauthorized episcopal ordination of the
: priest Joseph Ma Yinglin, elevating him to
: the office of bishop without the approval
: and against the wishes of the Holy Father
: Pope Benedict XVI; etc etc etc
: Resolved, That the House of
: Representatives—
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: (1) condemns, in the strongest possible
: terms, the actions of the Government of the
: People’s Republic of China to coerce
: Catholic bishops in China, both those in the
: Catholic Patriotic Association of China and
: those who remain loyal to the Pope, to
: violate their consciences and consecrate
: bishops in defiance of Rome;
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: (2) extends its deepest sympathy and
: condolences to the Catholic population of
: China and the Catholic Church for this
: insult to their beliefs and religious
: practices;
:
: (3) reaffirms the right of all religious
: organizations to choose their leaders in a
: manner that is free of intimidation, terror,
: or coercion in accordance with Article 18 of
: the Uniform Declaration of Human Rights;
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: (4) urges the Government of China to end its
: repression of religious organizations,
: recognize the ecclesiastical authority of
: religious leaders to provide spiritual
: leadership to their followers, and end the
: practice of only allowing religious worship
: through state-sanctioned patriotic religious
: associations; and
:
: (5) encourages the Government of China to
: refrain from additional ordination of
: Catholic bishops while the Vatican and the
: Catholic Patriotic Association of China
: resolve their differences and adopt a
: mutually acceptable process for approving
: the elevation of bishops.
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: Father John George
: Father John George
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: Roman Catholics recorded to have entered
: China in the 13th century long before Mao
: Tse-tung (1893-1976).
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: Despite China Constitution ensuring
: religious freedom
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: China turned Communist in 1949. Almost
: immediately, the new Communist government
: started putting pressure on the Roman
: Catholic Church. In 1951, the papal nuncio,
: Archbishop Riberi, was expelled from China.
: The Chinese government formed the Three
: Autonomies Movement to organize the clergy
: to abandon the Holy See under the excuse of
: patriotism and nationalism.
: By 1953, many Chinese and foreign
: bishops and priests and laypersons were
: arrested. Many died in jail. Pope Pius XII,
: in his encyclical Ad Sinarum Gentem on
: October 7, 1954, warned the Chinese pastors
: that "the Three Autonomies" seeks
: "to establish finally among you a
: national church which no longer could be
: Catholic . . ."
: In 1955, a mass arrest took place in the
: Shanghai diocese by the Chinese government.
: In one night on September 8, 1955, more than
: 200 clergy and faithful, including Bishop
: Ignatius Kung, the Bishop of Shanghai, who
: refused to support "the Three
: Autonomies" movements to be independent
: of the Holy See, were arrested. Bishop
: Kung's fidelity and resistance was an
: inspiration for the bishops and thousands of
: Catholics throughout China.
: The unyielding fidelity of these pastors
: and the blood of the martyrs encouraged the
: entire Catholic community in China.
: Failing to eradicate the Catholic
: Church, the Chinese government created in
: 1957 its own Church, called the Chinese
: Catholic Patriotic Association (CCPA)
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: Father John George
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: Forget holiday rendez vous will Hague obtain
: justice re fellow clergy and people??:
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: Bishop GAO Kexian
: 高可賢, Yantai
: 煙台, Shandong 山東
: Arrested in October, 1999. Died in jail
: January 24, 2005. Cause of death unknown.
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: Bishop HAN Dingxiang
: 韓鼎祥, Yong Nian
: 永年, Hebei 河北
: Arrested on or about December 1, 1999.
: Died in jail September 9, 2007 at the age of
: 71. Cause of death unknown.
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: Bishops In Prison
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: Bishop SHI Enxiang
: 師恩祥, Yixian
: 易縣, Hebei 河北
: Arrested April 13, 2001. His
: whereabouts are unknown.
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: Bishop SU Zhimin
: 蘇志民, Baoding
: 保定, Hebei 河北
: Re-arrested October 8, 1997 after 17
: months in hiding. He has disappeared. His
: whereabouts are unknown.
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: Note: Notwithstanding the above lists,
: almost all underground bishops are either in
: jail, under house arrest, hiding with or
: without arrest warrants, in labor-camps, or
: under severe surveillance.
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: Religious In Prison
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: In view of frequent turnovers of those
: religious and faithful who are being jailed,
: the Foundation has difficulty in obtaining
: timely information about their detention and
: release; consequently, the Foundation is
: unable to compile an updated and reliable
: list of prisoners of religious conscience in
: China.
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