HONG KONG (UCAN): Wang Zuo’an, deputy director of the Central United Front Work Department told a December 18 symposium, held by the Bishops’ Conference of the Catholic Church in China and the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association, that no foreign religious organisation or foreign powers would be able to endanger national interests through control and manipulation of the Chinese Catholic Church.
 

JINAN (UCAN): Around a third of China’s 12 government-recognised regional seminaries have suspended operations in recent years for reasons as varied as lack of students to difficulties in finding trained staff.