UCANews: 52-year-old Father Joseph Lu Genjun from the unofficial community of Baoding of Hebei province was released on August 9 after eight years of isolation and imprisonment. At the time of his arrest, Father Lu had been carrying out the … Continue reading
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1989: 1000 ‘Russian Orthodox’ Priests Surfaced as Ukrainian Catholics?
This information, incredible as it seems, was revealed this past week by Father Andriy Chirovsky, pastor of St. Michael Ukrainian Catholic Church in Tucson and founder of the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies at St. Paul University … Continue reading
Communists Order Religious Images Be Replaced by Pictures of Ho Chi Minh
UCANews: Government authorities from a district in the Central Highlands last week compelled ethnic villagers to remove Catholic pictures and items from their chapel and replaced them with images of Ho Chi Minh last weekend. Read more here.
Chinese Government Bans Episcopal Honors at Funeral for Underground Shepherd
UCANews: Government officials have barred the Church community from honoring Bishop Francis Li Yi of Changzhi’s status at his funeral, which is scheduled to take place in northern Shanxi province tomorrow. Read more here.
Vietnam: Police Send Thugs to Attack Orphanage, Priest Beaten into Coma
A group of thugs, with the cooperation of the police, stormed a Christian orphanage in Hanoi, damaging the building and even beating the children who are guests of the center. The thugs seriously injured a priest, who spoke out in … Continue reading
Pope Calls Croatians to Look to Blessed Cardinal Stepinac Prisoner for Fifteen Years Under the Communists
I wrote an article for our website in February 2008, Red is for Martyrdom, which featured a brief biography of six Cardinals who suffered torture and imprisonment under the Reds. Blessed Alojzije Stepinac was among them. Zenit News: Benedict XVI … Continue reading
Documentary to Air on Female Religious Victims of Communism
It is rare to hear of anything in the media exposing Communist atrocities. But this program will be aired on September 13 on ABC affiliates. CWN reports: A documentary that examines the persecution of nuns in Eastern Europe between the … Continue reading