CHONGQING (UCAN): A conference was held in July this year involving the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association and the Bishops’ Conference of the Catholic Church in China at which each seminary on the mainland was required to present a paper explaining how the recommendations of the Central Disciplinary Committee of the Communist Party, published subsequent to its inspection of the State Administration of Religious Affairs, are being implemented.

HONG KONG (SE): “A Chinese bishops’ conference in communion with the pope. All these bishops will be people who are converted to walk together towards the kingdom of God,” Bishop Joseph Wei Jingyi, the leader of the unofficial Church community in Qiqihar, in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang, told AsiaNews.

HONG KONG (UCAN): A priest in China says that the timing of the agenda for the year of the State Administration of Religious Affairs, which was released on February 1, is extremely pertinent, as it comes hot on the heels of an article released by the Italian newspaper, Corriere della Sera, speaking of breakthroughs in Vatican-Beijing talks on January 25 and 26.