Religion!

[barkingmad]

And now for something completely different, a brief history of Catholicism in China which may explain why they understandably fear following the Uyghurs down the road to the concentration camps;



However, even the R C main paper is beginning to agitate against the dealings between Vatican and Being, so how will it all possibly end?

https://www.thetablet.co.uk/news/13285/ ... ijing-deal

[TheGreenGoblin]

And now for something completely different, a brief history of Catholicism in China which may explain why they understandably fear following the Uyghurs down the road to the concentration camps;


However, even the R C main paper is beginning to agitate against the dealings between Vatican and Being, so how will it all possibly end?

https://www.thetablet.co.uk/news/13285/ ... ijing-deal

The purpose of the 2018 Vatican-Beijing pact, the ISHR said, had been to end the conflict between the Chinese Communist Party and the Vatican. “Instead, however, it has seriously damaged the Church’s international reputation and led to a conflict within the Church. China’s Catholics remain under severe pressure despite the pact”.

It was now absolutely imperative to publish the pact in full in order to clarify the real intentions of the signatories, the statement continued. It was to be feared that the Chinese leadership would not keep to the contractual obligations. “The Beijing leadership has already shown that it is prepared shamelessly to renege on contracts,” ISHR chairman Edgar Lamm pointed out.

The Vatican’s silence regarding China’s human rights violations must also be condemned, the statement said. The pact not only helped to smooth the way for the regime to take total control over Chinese Catholics, but also meant turning away from all those who were being persecuted for their religion in China.

The Catholic Church's accomodation of the current regime in China was both naive and reprehensible in my opinion.

We live in a truly evil world...

“one of the most egregious human tragedies since the Holocaust: the potential genocide of the Uighurs and other Muslims in China.”

Other signatories in Britain include the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, the Coptic-Orthodox Archbishop of London Archbishop Angaelos, 19 of the UK’s most senior rabbis and a London-based representative of the Dalai Lama.