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‘The Vatican surrendered everything, got nothing, in deal with china’ bishop says. Claims the church in china "is underground" (which is a lie)
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herald
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Date: February 16, 2020 11:00AM
the former bishop of Hong Kong — has been a vocal critic of the Vatican’s rapprochement with the CCP, insisting that Pope Francis is “naïve” in dealing with a country he knows little about.
“The pope doesn’t know much about China. And he may have some sympathy for the Communists, because in South America, the Communists are good guys, they suffer for social justice,” Zen told Catholic News Agency (CNA). “But not the [Chinese] Communists. They are persecutors.”
“The Vatican is helping the government, surrendering, giving everything into their hands,” Zen said.
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The churches in China and Hong Kong were never under-ground.
Some chinese politicians have been indicted on charges of using "goons" to prevent children from going to church with the "long term goal of getting the land for free".
The report above seems to say the Church surrendered all it's land to china - I guarantee the land was all payed for, so if the Chinese seize it, there will be hell to pay.
neither article says specifically land was seized, however, the chinese "have asked for complete authority" over the church and asked for documents to be signed that they do have complete authority
TO ME, and looking at asians in the USA continually try to steal church land ... THAT IS A CLEAR CUT CASE of grabbing church land
(you see - i doubt china is trying to split from the church to run it's own church - china intends to take the land in the future and believes the church will not fight back)
Re: ‘The Vatican surrendered everything, got nothing, in deal with china’ bishop says. Claims the church in china "is underground" (which is a lie)
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herald
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Date: February 16, 2020 11:13AM
this may become a matter where the chinese claim that signing the agreement "gave them control of the land", which of course they will write legislation to use to the advantage of the political party's wealth
why else would the chinese want a church to sign documents? they are for the bank.