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Priests and seminarians arrested.


Shijiazhuang -- China has resumed the systematic arrest of Catholic priests This is an annotated list of men primarily known for their work as Catholic priests. Catholic priests who are mostly known for their non-priestly work should be placed on other lists.  and seminarians whose meetings are not sponsored by the government-sanctioned "patriotic" church. A dozen underground priests and seminarians were attending a religious retreat Oct. 20 in the Hebei province Noun 1. Hebei province - a populous province in northeastern China
Hebei, Hopeh, Hopei

Cathay, China, Communist China, mainland China, People's Republic of China, PRC, Red China - a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most
. The government of China raided the retreat and arrested the participants, who are now being kept in a detention house in Gaocheng County, the Connecticut-based Cardinal Kung Foundation The Cardinal Kung Foundation is a not-for-profit Roman Catholic organization based in Stamford, Connecticut. Founded in 1994 by Joseph Kung, the nephew of the late Ignatius Cardinal Kung Pin-Mei, the foundation monitors the treatment of Catholics in China and that portion of the  reported.

Among the arrested are Father Li Wenfeng, 31, Father Liu Heng This article is about the contemporary Chinese writer. For the Han Dynasty emperor, see Emperor Wen of Han.

Liu Heng (Simplified Chinese: 刘恒; Pinyin: Liú Héng 
, 29, Father Dou Shengxia, 37, and seminarians Chen Rongfu, 21, Han Jianlu, 24, and Zhang Chongyou, 23, the Kung Foundation said. Names of others arrested are unknown.

The Kung Foundation also reports that a Catholic church in Hebei was demolished by the Chinese government Ever since Republic of China founded in January 1st, 1912, China has had several regional and national governments. List
  • Chinese Soviet Republic
  • Provisional Government of the Republic of China
  • Reformed Government of the Republic of China
 last June 21, just two weeks after its construction was completed. This church was located in Liu Gou village and had about 150 parishioners, mostly new converts. (Zenit, Oct. 27, 2003)
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