PERSECUTED! Catholic Church in Communist China PART 1

PART 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arTiElvcgbA
PART 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiFW6IgM8CI

Benedictine Father Werner Papeians de Morchoven (right), Benedictine Father Eleutherius Winance (center) and Benedictine Brother Peter (Bang-Jiu Zhou) (left) lived in a Benedictine monastery in Szechwan, China, during the Communist takeover. Father Winance was arrested and expelled from China, Father Papeians de Morchoven was forced out of China and Brother Peter was arrested and served 25 years in a Communist prison, where he was tortured for many of those years.


BRIEF HISTORY OF THE PERSECUTION OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN COMMUNIST CHINA
By Theresa Marie Moreau
Religious and personal freedom for the people of China began to disintegrate back in 1949 (after the end of the three-year Chinese Nationalist-Communist Civil War that followed in the wake of World War II), when the Communists (headed by Tse-Tung Mao) defeated the Kuomintang -- the Chinese Nationalist Party (headed by Kai-Shek Chiang) that fled to Taiwan (historically known as Formosa ).
On October 1, 1949, the Chairman stood in Tiananmen Square and announced the founding of the People's Republic of China -- with himself the head of the beast.
In an attempt to break with the Holy See, the xenophobic Communists established, in 1949, the Three-Self Reform Movement, so-called for its aim to be Self-governing, Self-supporting and Self-propagating. Relations between the Vatican and China first froze then officially broke in 1951 after Mao kicked out Archbishop Antonio Riberi, papal nuncio.
But Mao discovered the "official church" wasn't catching on. There was an underground Roman Catholic Church that was still alive, thriving.
For the next couple years, the Reds rounded up and expelled all foreign-born clergy and religious. Next, they began arresting and imprisoning Chinese priests and religious. Then the laity.
Make no mistake. This practice continues to this day.
On July 15, 1957, the Three-Self Reform Movement was replaced by and integrated into the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association.
To be patriotic in China means to be revolutionary. To be faithful to the Pope, regarded as an imperialist power, is considered a counterrevolutionary act.
Why does Beijing attempt to force its atheistic will upon Roman Catholics?
Speculation rests on the argument that the Communists want to have the underground Church clutched tightly in their five-starred fists before establishing diplomatic relations with the Vatican.
According to "Document 26" issued by the Secretariat of Party Central on August 17, 1999, "The normalization of China-Vatican relations offers a beneficial opportunity to solve the problem of the underground Catholic forces. If we can use this opportunity...to win the majority of the underground Catholic forces over to our side, to convert them, then a key link in Party Central's strategic plan will be realized...The plan is: Positively struggle, treating each case differently, to convert the majority and to isolate the minority...making the leading authority in our country's Catholic Church to be always in the hands of the patriotic forces. Distinguish the different circumstances of each underground bishop and priest, and deal with them accordingly."
Long-term mission: Force the unofficial, illegal, underground Church into the official, legal, aboveground church.
Short-term mission: Behead the dioceses. Without shepherds, the sheep shall perish.

ENDNOTE: All Chinese names have been written in a manner to avoid confusion and to remain consistent with the English standard of writing proper names: given name first, family name last. In Chinese, names are traditionally written with family name first, given name last.

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[ELservenguenza]

May all the Saint's and martyr pray for the guidance of the persecuted... amen

[VeritasEstLibertas]

@wraithmarine...china has adopted a western "religion." it's called marxism.

[ITHEREONETHATHASNT]

@COMMUNISTPHILOSOPHY Im sorry we forgot only jews can be persecuted right? I forgot they had a hegemony on suffering. You are a dumbass. Romans fed their lions with catholics you moron.

[ITHEREONETHATHASNT]

@Born2Flesh Because they unlike youa re smart enough to realize the church does not give a shit about the skin color of jesus. Faith in him is our main concern we do not care about his skin color it is only haters of the church that care about this. Judaism portrays moses and abraham as white and this is also impossible but dont mentiont hat or hate on another religion keep it to catholicism because then you wont be called anti semetic or have your head cut off. Chinese govt kills him? Who? stfu

[caddyrolla123]

im not atheist, but im also not all about any one modern religion either

[RonSafreed]

Hey atheist why is Christianity growing in atheist/communist China? All branches of Christianity-Cathloc/Protestan­t/Pentecostal-Charismatic are growing in China. If I were you I would be an "atheist missionary to China with Mao's little red book to stop that "evil Bible" from destroying atheism.Did evolution make a mistake here atheist?Well atheist it looks like Christianity is stronger than atheism in China. Would you agree?

[Born2Flesh]

Does the Jesus in this Catholic Church look like a pale-face European? How can the Chinese people be stupid enough to pray to a pale-face, European Jesus? Jesus was not European. The Chinese are being fooled and taken in by religious lies. ...if the Chinese government kills him, he asked for it. If China wants to remain whole, they should remove any form of Catholicism from their nation.

[COMMUNISTPHILOSOPHY]

catholic church persecuted? lol that's rich coming from there

[mjerk23]

May the GOD of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and the GOD of our early Fathers of the Church bless and protect our brethren Catholics in China.

[fontainebleau311]

God bless China, God bless our holy church.