HONG KONG (UCAN): In lamenting the premature death of 61-year-old Liu Xiaobo at the First Hospital of the China Medical University in Shenyang on July 13, Bangkok-based Michael Sainsbury says that the world has now seen the death of one of its bravest human beings and greatest citizens of modern day China.
Sainsbury notes in an article published by UCAN that the untimely death of the man adopted by Christians in Hong Kong as a prophet and embraced as a martyr also has many lessons for the Vatican in the context of its current series of dialogue sessions with Beijing.
He notes that already at least two bishops, including Bishop James Su Zhimin, from Baoding, who has been in prison since 1997, along with Bishop Cosmas Shi Enxiang, from...
