Hong Kong’s Catholic Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun is being prosecuted by Chinese government-dominated authorities of the city after his decades of harsh criticism against Beijing’s human rights abuses, religious persecution, and growing repression.
Zen, along with five co-defendants, was charged under Hong Kong’s Societies Ordinance in May for allegedly failing to register the pro-democracy 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund properly. The group had provided legal and medical assistance in 2019 and 2020 to jailed protesters who objected to the Chinese government’s increasingly iron-fisted grip on the former British colony.
The Vatican's response to the arrest was muted, as Pope Francis seeks to renew a secretive agreement between the Catholic Church and China's government on how bishops are appointed inside the authoritarian country. There remains a significant divide inside China between the underground Catholic Church and the government-sanctioned Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said in mid-May that “Hong Kong is a society with rule of law where no organization or individual is above the law and all offenses shall be prosecuted and punished in accordance with law.”“Martyrdom is normal in our church,” the cardinal said during a late May homily. “We may not have to do that, but we may have to bear some pain and steel ourselves for our loyalty to our faith.
The Vatican and China reached a provisional agreement in September 2018, the full details of which remain secret, which allowed the pope to appoint bishops in China but with apparent influence and final approval from the Chinese government. The Vatican said in October 2020 that the agreement “is of great ecclesial and pastoral value” and that it was being extended by two years. Pope Francis is now attempting to renew it yet again.
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