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Religious persecution in China. (Insider Report).(Brief Article)
Under house arrest, Bishop Mattia Pei Shangde, 83, died Christmas Eve at a hospital near Beijing. For more than 50 years, since the Communist takeover of China in 1949, Bishop Pei had suffered persecution for his faith, including forced labor in Red China's notorious prison camps. Frail and seriously ill from kidney trouble, the bishop had been under house arrest since April 2001 for "illegal" religious practices. Reportedly, kidney failure caused his death. Thousands of people defied Communist authorities to attend Bishop Pei's funeral at his home parish in Zhangjiapu. Officials attempted to keep a very low profile for the funeral by placing a police ban on attendance by all except for village residents. Despite the obvious danger, around 3,000 faithful attended the funeral Mass on January 2nd.
On January 9th, the Voice of the Martyrs (VOM), an evangelical Protestant ministry, reported that Communist China's "Public Security Bureau (PSB) informed family members of sister Zhong Ju Yu last summer that she was beaten to death while imprisoned in Hubei Province." Zhong Ju Yu was arrested during a roundup of South China Church members last May. At that time, 63 church members were jailed. Another 500 are now being monitored closely by the PSB. The jailed leader of the 50,000 member South China Church, Pastor Gong Shengliang, reportedly has received a temporary reprieve from execution. The pastor was reported to have been ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Religious persecution in China. (Insider Report).(Brief Article)