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by Ruth Ingram
The noose is tightening around China’s Catholics who refuse to bow to Beijing.
Despite a rapprochement with the Holy See in 2018, which conceded the appointment of Bishops to the Chinese state with formal Vatican approval, their situation is grimmer than ever, with no improvement for China’s 12 million or so Catholics.
According to Yalkun Uluyol of Human Rights Watch (HRW), in his latest report, China’s clandestine Catholic faithful are under more pressure than ever to sign up to Beijing’s “Sinicized” version of their faith.
“A decade into Xi Jinping’s Sinicization campaign and nearly eight years since the 2018 Holy See-China agreement, Catholics in China face escalating r...
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