Chinese Police Arrest Underground Catholic Bishop Loyal to Rome

[Tall Timbers]

ROME — Chinese security forces have arrested Peter Shao Zhumin, the underground Catholic bishop of Wenzhou, who has refused to join the state-run Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association.

Bishop Shao was ordained coadjutor bishop in 2011 with a papal mandate from Pope Benedict XVI but has never been recognized by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) because of his unwillingness to enlist in the Patriotic Association.

Shao was supposed to assume the leadership of the Catholic diocese of Wenzhou — one of China’s oldest and most vibrant Catholic communities — upon the death of his predecessor, Bishop Vincent Zhu Wei-Fang, in 2016, but he has been prevented by authorities from carrying out his ministry.

Chinese Police Arrest Underground Catholic Bishop

Chinese security forces have arrested Peter Shao Zhumin, the underground Catholic bishop of Wenzhou.

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[Ghoti Ichthus]

Similar to what happened to Orthodox clergy, who refused to join the Communist Party in the USSR

and the non-State (conservative) Evangelical Lutheran church in Germany before and during WWII, and the discrimination against this church and its members, which persists to this day

and the Russian Orthodox Church, which is doing everything it can to stamp out and prevent the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and clergy from doing their jobs

and the Finish and Swedish governments' ongoing and repetitive arrests of Lutheran Pastors for speaking out against sin

it goes on and on and on and on Open Doors and Voice of the Martyrs have websites full of documented Christian persecution all over the world.