Tag: Hong Kong

If Paul VI was right about witnesses being evangelists, then Jimmy Lai the Hong Kong entrepreneur, newspaperman, and human rights advocate who has now spent more than 1,800 days in solitary confinement in Stanley Prison, and who was recently “convicted” in a sham “trial” of being a threat to Hong Kong’s “national security” is one of Catholicism’s most compelling evangelists.

The bishop of Hong Kong, Cardinal Stephen Chow SJ, addressed a large crowd in Parramatta on 15 September on the topic of “bridge-building," taking a positive view of engagement with Beijing.

George Weigel writes of two “contemporary Catholic martyr-confessors”, Major-Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, patriarch of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, and activist Jimmy Lai.

As chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, John Lee is the principal enforcer of the Chinese communist regime’s ever-tightening chokehold on...

By Our Sunday Visitor Editorial Board   If you wonder about China’s attitude to the Church, putting a 91-year-old on trial makes it pretty clear “Martyrdom is...

Individual and collective memory is an essential - though notoriously unstable - human element. For those who have lived and suffered under injustice and totalitarianism...

Joshua Wong is a young Chinese human rights activist, recently sentenced to 13 and a half months in prison on the Orwellian charge of...

During a short papal flight from Boston to New York on October 2, 1979, Father Jan Schotte (later a cardinal but then a low-ranking...

Cardinal Parolin, he has bluntly told media, is misleading Pope Francis on the whole issue.

Bishop halt all Masses including Ash Wednesday liturgies to curb the spread of COVID-19.

Hong Kong's largest crowd gathered for the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.