Father Piero Gheddo, AsiaNews: After I was ordained in 1953, I immediately began working in journalism, interviewing – among others – our PIME missionaries who had been expelled from China (140, including five bishops) at that time. They were quite pessimistic about the fate of the Chinese Church because, they said, “they are sending away us foreign missionaries, jailing bishops, priests and nuns, and they are closing churches, seminaries, convents, Catholic schools, the Catholic press,” adding that “Our poor ‘rice Christians’ will not resist the persecution. But we must continue to pray” Full story is here.
