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Today, the Feast of Our Lady Help of Christians is also the annual worldwide day of prayer for China, designated as such by the late Pope Benedict XVII in 2007. And God knows, the people of China need our prayers now more than any time since the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989, the Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s and early 1970s, and the torment and famine of Mao Zedong’s so-called “Great Leap Forward” from 1958-1962.
Uyghurs are suffering a campaign of forced sterilization, forced abortion, forced labor and surveillance, torture, sexual violence, and religious persecution. At least a million — perhaps several million — Uyghurs and other Muslim ethnic groups in the region are incarcerated in prison camps, and hundreds are loaded like cattle onto trains to be transported as slave labor throughout China.
In the space of three years, with the imposition of a draconian National Security Law which has destroyed all remaining liberties, Hong Kong has been turned from one of Asia’s most open cities into one of its most repressive police states. But as we pray for China, our prayers should not only be for the peripheries – for the Uyghurs, Hong Kong, and Tibet. Our prayers should also be for the center, for mainland China, the “Middle Kingdom.” For the lawyers, dissidents, citizen journalists, bloggers, and civil society activists across China who have been detained, or worse — disappeared. For the brave people who protested against the draconian Covid-19 lockdowns.
The regime is carrying out plans for a new translation of the Bible, which will reinterpret it in accordance with Xi Jinping's ‘Thought.’ Surveillance cameras are installed at the altar, recording everyone who attends worship — and young people under the age of 18 are prohibited from coming to worship. The regime has not yet succeeded in its goal of eliminating religion, but it is tightening the noose of restrictions on religious practice every day.
This year we do so again, for the third time, exercising our conscience, spirit, right, and freedom to defend those who cannot speak for themselves, whose human dignity, human rights, and freedom of religion or belief are so systematically, comprehensively, and appallingly disrespected.
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