Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin told LifeSiteNews that the Holy See ‘hope[s] to renew’ its secretive deal with Communist China, which has faced scathing criticism from Catholic clergy, freedom advocates, and China experts.
Chinese communist authorities continue to detain Bishop Peter Shao Zhumin of Wenzhou and numerous Catholic priests, according to ChinaAid, in addition to Bishop James Su Zhimin of Baoding, if he is even still alive.
The hackers ‘spent approximately 14 years targeting U.S. and foreign critics, businesses, and political officials’ as part of a massive Chinese espionage operation, according to the DOJ.
‘I shall go on with my life here in peace, certain of God's hope and promise, and have joy praising God,’ persecuted Chinese Catholic Jimmy Lai wrote Archbishop Cordileone from prison.
While Cardinal Chow has not criticized the communist legislation, Benedict Rogers of Hong Kong Watch condemned its infringement on religious freedom and confidentiality rights, effectively forcing Catholic priests to break the seal of confession.
The government’s new domestic security law continues a move toward a hostile environment for Catholics in Hong Kong that mirrors more and more the persecution of the underground Church in mainland China.
Rep. Mike Gallagher declared that our ‘strategic competition’ with the CCP is ‘not a test of two different socio-economic systems’ but ‘is, at its core, a struggle for souls.’
'What I began to suspect was that the Chinese migration is actually being cloaked by the economic migration coming from South America,' journalist Brett Weinstein told Tucker Carlson.