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Top Catholic app reportedly removed from app store in China

July 16, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

This photo taken on Jan. 15, 2024, shows a Chinese flag fluttering below a cross on a Christian church in Pingtan in China’s southeast Fujian province. / Credit: GREG BAKER/AFP via Getty Images

CNA Staff, Jul 16, 2024 / 14:50 pm (CNA).
The popu… […]

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Christian population shrinking in China amid ‘crackdown’

December 15, 2023 Catholic News Agency 2

Catholics celebrate Christmas Mass at the Nativity of Our Lady Church on Dec. 24, 2019, in Macau, China. / Credit: Kit Leong/Shutterstock

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 15, 2023 / 16:45 pm (CNA).
The size of the Christian population in China ha… […]

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Hong Kong police arrest dozens at memorials for victims of Tiananmen Square massacre

June 5, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

People light candles at a Tiananmen vigil at Victoria Park in Hong Kong, June 4, 2020. / Yan Zhao/AFP via Getty Images

Washington D.C., Jun 5, 2023 / 13:50 pm (CNA).
Hong Kong police apprehended almost two dozen citizens for “seditious” activit… […]

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Catholic University awards honorary degree to imprisoned human rights advocate Jimmy Lai

May 14, 2022 Catholic News Agency 1

Hong Kong media tycoon and Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai. / Napa Institute.

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 14, 2022 / 09:00 am (CNA).
The Catholic University of America on Saturday awarded an honorary degree to imprisoned Hong Kong human rights… […]

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‘We will not be silenced,’ says UK Catholic activist after Hong Kong jail threat

March 14, 2022 Catholic News Agency 0

British human rights campaigner Benedict Rogers / Courtesy photo

London, England, Mar 14, 2022 / 09:57 am (CNA).
A Catholic activist insisted on Monday that his U.K.-based human rights monitoring group would not be silenced after Hong Kong poli… […]

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Human rights activist: Diplomatic relations between Vatican and China would be ‘totally unacceptable’

February 7, 2022 Catholic News Agency 10

British human rights campaigner Benedict Rogers / Courtesy photo

London, England, Feb 7, 2022 / 04:40 am (CNA).
A British human rights activist said on Sunday that it would be “totally unacceptable” for the Vatican to establish formal diplomati… […]

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China unveils 3-child policy amid sharp drop in births

May 31, 2021 Catholic News Agency 0

Tom Wang via Shutterstock.

Beijing, China, May 31, 2021 / 07:00 am (CNA).
The Chinese government announced Monday that couples can have up to three children amid a sharp fall in the country’s birth rate. The May 31 announcement, described as a m… […]

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