Celebrations of the Year of the Rat in bad weather

The situation improves across China, but some provinces are still without power. The publicity machine and leaders rush to console, aid and control as initial estimates are drawn..

AsiaNews - Feb. 7, 2008

Celebrating 400 years of Catholic faith in Shanghai

In his pastoral letter Msgr. Jin Luxian, Bishop of Shanghai, thanks missionaries for their religious and cultural commitment to China and asks the faithful to be evangelizers of the city and not “to let the Pope down”.

AsiaNews - Jan. 4, 2008

Remembering the Faithful Departed of the Chinese Church

Hong Kong’s Justice and peace commission organized a mass in suffrage of Msgr. John Han Dingxiang, bishop of Yongnian who died “in mysterious circumstances”.

AsiaNews - Oct. 29, 2007

New phase in China Church history

Pope Benedict's recent pastoral letter to Catholics in China is undoubtedly the most important and historical document ever written by Rome to the Chinese Church. The key words are: reconciliation, unity and dialogue. Nowhere in this letter does the pope call for confrontation. Read this reflection by Fr Jeroom Heyndrickx.

UCA News - July 6, 2007

Only Democracy can guarantee a just society

For the first time ever the bishop of Hong Kong, Card Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, has taken part in the July 1 pro-democracy march in the Territory ten years after it was returned to mainland China.

AsiaNews - July 3, 2007