China

Tiananmen anniversary prompts renewed calls to address human rights abuses
- Jun 5, 2021
The Chinese government in Beijing again banned an annual candlelight vigil to honor the victims of the Tiananmen Square Massacre because the Communist Party “cannot tolerate the truth of its actions in 1989 being recognized anywhere,” said the head of the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong.

By Catholic News Service
Hong Kong Masses remember Tiananmen Square protesters
- Jun 3, 2021
The protesters killed in Tiananmen Square in mainland China on June 4, 1989, used to be remembered in Hong Kong with an annual candlelight vigil in the city’s expansive Victoria Park, attended by crowds as big as 130,000, all holding flickering candles.

By Mark Myanmar
Fears rise over China’s growing crackdown on Christian religious leaders
- Jun 1, 2021
The recent arrest of a Vatican-approved bishop, priests and seminarians in north-central China came as a shocking development, if not surprising, as religious persecution in the communist-led country has continued to intensify under President Xi Jinping.

By Catholic News Service

Clergy arrested as week of prayer for China begins
- May 25, 2021
Days before the week of prayer for Catholics in China began Sunday, several clergy and seminarians in the country were arrested for holding services without the permission of the country’s Communist authorities.

By Elise Ann Allen

U.S. bishop echoes cardinal’s call for prayers for the people of China
- May 23, 2021
The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace invited Catholics in the United States to offer prayers for the people of China and the well-being of the Catholic Church in that country May 23-30.

By Catholic News Service
Hearing mulls 2022 Winter Olympic boycott over China human rights record
- May 20, 2021
WASHINGTON — A congressional panel, during a May 18 hearing, weighed the possibility of a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing to call attention to China’s long-standing human rights abuses. Another tactic discussed was to find an alternate site to host the Winter Games. Sites floated included

By Julie Asher
Hong Kong’s new bishop wants differing views respected
- May 18, 2021
Hong Kong’s incoming Bishop Stephen Chow called for respect for different views as he prepares to lead a diocese that has been polarized by the city’s deteriorating political situation.

By Associated Press
Pope names Jesuit educator bishop of Hong Kong
- May 17, 2021
Pope Francis has named Jesuit Father Stephen Chow Sau-yan, a native of Hong Kong and provincial of the Jesuits’ Chinese province, to be the new bishop of Hong Kong.

By Catholic News Service