Deaths can be mysterious in China, not least because Chinese officialdom has a way of forgetting that anyone has died.Deaths can be mysterious in China, not least because Chinese officialdom has a way of forgetting that anyone has died. So it was with 71-year-old Han Dingxiang Han Dingxiang (May 17, 1937 – September 9, 2007) was an underground Roman Catholic bishop of Yongnian, a division of Hebei province, in China. Dingxiang was detained for much of his ministry for his loyalty to the Vatican as opposed to the Chinese government-controlled Roman , a Catholic bishop who--according to a religious-rights group--spent some 35 years in prison, labor camps, and other forms of state custody. "This name is not on our list of bishops," explained a Chinese religious-affairs bureaucrat. "We don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. this person and don't know anything about him." According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. reports from his followers, Bishop Han died in police custody, and the state cremated his body six hours later. A convenient way to destroy evidence of extrajudicial That which is done, given, or effected outside the course of regular judicial proceedings. Not founded upon, or unconnected with, the action of a court of law, as in extrajudicial evidence or an extrajudicial oath. murder? No one knows for sure. What we do know is that millions of Christians continue to suffer persecution at the hands of Beijing's latter-day atheist mandarins. |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion