Newly elected Chinese Church leaders allied with government vow to proceed with sinicization

Flag of the People's Republic of China / Yan Ke / Unsplash (CC0)CNA Newsroom, Aug 24, 2022 / 02:21 am (CNA).Chinese bishops allied with the government have promised to proceed with the "sinicization" of Catholicism in China.During a national conference in Wuhan, two organizations elected leaders who vowed to bring the Church in China in line with the ideology of the Chinese Communist Party.The 10th National Congress of Catholicism in China was attended by 345 Catholic bishops, priests, and religious of the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association, reported UCA News.At the end of the three-day gathering, new leaders of the association and of the Bishops' Conference of the Catholic Church in China (BCCCC) were elected. Both of these organizations are sponsored by the Chinese state. The Catholic Church in the People's Republic of China has been split between the government-sanctioned Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association and the underground Church, which is persecuted and...

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