UCANews: For the past 42 years, Kong Zhenlan, a Catholic in China’s Shanxi province, has been bringing up handicapped orphans and abandoned children along with her own kids, and that has inspired one of her sons to become a Catholic priest.
Kong’s son Father Anthony Fan Changliang says the adoption of orphans is related to a local tradition in their Jiuji catholic village in Qi county.
Before the communist revolution in 1949, the ancient Catholic parish in the village maintained a tradition of charity to help the orphans. In the two decades that followed the revolution this noble tradition and all the charity works were stopped as religions were oppressed, Catholics say. Read more here.
