Breaking News – A hundred Catholics in Wenzhou stopped
May 24th is the day to ‘Pray for the Chinese Catholic Church,’ which was set by the Vatican. According to the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Information Centre, the General Secretary of the underground church in Wenzhou, Jiang Sunian together with more than one hundred underground Catholics was summoned for interrogation by public security. They were warned not to participate in prayers for religious freedom on the 24th at Shanghai Sheshan Church.
Jiang Sunian said that in April this year, public security broke up a four hundred strong gathering of underground Catholics in Wenzhou, while they held a service in the Lin family church.
Jiang Sunian and Shao Min Zhu, the organizers of the Wenzhou underground Catholic Church, wanted to visit the Vatican in 2006 but were denied passports by the authorities. They had to borrow other people’s identity cards to travel to the Vatican as tourists. Later that year on the 25th September when they returned to China, they were arrested by public security upon arrived in Shenzhen. They were charged with ‘illegally exiting’ China by the Wenzhou court and were sentenced to eleven and nine months imprisonment respectively.
Jiang Sunian was sentenced in 1999 to six years imprisonment because he printed the Bible. He was released in two thousand and three.
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