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June 2, 2021

Tiananmen Square protesters remembered at Masses in Hong Kong

A boy takes part in a candlelight vigil at Victoria Park in Hong Kong June 4, 2013, to mark the anniversary of the crackdown on the pro-democracy movement in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989. This year's vigil has been canceled by Hong Kong police, but seven Catholic churches scheduled Masses for June 4, 2021, at the time the vigils would normally occur.

HONG KONG -- The protesters killed in Tiananmen Square in mainland China on June 4, 1989, used to be remembered in Hong Kong with an annual candlelight vigil in the city’s expansive Victoria Park, attended by crowds as big as 130,000, all holding flickering candles.

Published in International
June 2, 2021

Charles Lewis: Uighurs need a Good Samaritan

Ethnic Uighur women wave flags of the East Turkestan independence movement during a protest in Istanbul Oct. 1, 2020.

One of the greatest passages in the Bible is the story of the Good Samaritan.

Published in Charles Lewis
June 1, 2021

Fears rise over China's growing crackdown on Christian religious leaders

Worshippers wearing protective masks pray during the Easter Vigil at a church in Shanghai April 3, 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Fears are rising over China's looming rising crackdown on Catholic and Protestant church leaders that authorities deem illegal.

The recent arrest of a Vatican-approved bishop, priests and seminarians in north-central China came as a shocking development, if not surprising, as religious persecution in the communist-led country has continued to intensify under President Xi Jinping.

Published in International
April 16, 2021

Jimmy Lai, Hong Kong Catholic media tycoon, jailed for 12 months

Catholic media tycoon and philanthropist Jimmy Lai, pictured in a May 29, 2020, photo, was sentenced to 12 months in jail in Hong Kong after being found guilty of unauthorized assembly. He was among nine activists in court April 16 who earlier were found guilty of charges relating to pro-democracy demonstrations.

HONG KONG -- Catholic media tycoon and philanthropist Jimmy Lai has been sentenced to 12 months in jail after being found guilty of unauthorized assembly.

Published in International