Press Release

MASS COMMEMORATING CANONIZATION OF 120 CHINESE MARTYRS TO BE CELEBRATED IN NEW YORK CITY
December 1, 2000 On December 10, 2000 at 3pm, a Mass celebrating the recently canonized 120 Chinese Martyrs will be offered at Saint Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, 5 Monroe Street at the corner of Catherine Street in Chinatown, New York City. Full Article

COMMEMORATION OF 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF LATE FATHER MATTHEW BENEDICT XI-PING ZHANG
November 27, 2000 A memorial mass will be celebrated at The St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church, Monterey Park, California on January 27, 2000 at 2:30 PM. We welcome all that could attend and participate.
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FORTY FIFTH ANNUAL DOUBLE TEN DINNER-DANCE Celebrating EIGHTY-NINTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING OF THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA
September 12 , 2000 The 45th Annual Double Ten Dinner Dance celebrating the 89th anniversary of the Founding of the Republic of China, co-sponsored by the Institute of Chinese Culture and the Sino-American Amity Fund, Inc., will be held at the New Oriental Pearl Restaurant, 103 Mott Street, Chinatown, NYC on Friday, October 13, 2000 at 6:30pm. Full Article

Commentary

CHINA: OPENING MARKETS AND CONTROLLING MINDS
[Religious Liberty Prayer List - No. 092 - Thu 23 Nov 2000World Evangelical Fellowship (WEF)]
November 27, 2000 As China strides into the new millennium with talk of open markets and human rights, the Communist dictators in Beijing face a major problem: how do they open up China to Western trade and technology while maintaining their oppressive grip on power? There are already more Christians in China than Communists. Even the Falun Gong outnumber the Communists.Full Article

Martyrs for the Faith By Anthony G. Bollback
(The following article originally appeared in the November 2000 print version of Alliance Life Magazine. It is reprinted here with permission)
November, 2000 Missionaries are remembered for their faithfulness to the country they loved
The year 2000 is the 100-year anniversary of the martyrdom of 239 missionaries in China in what is known as the Boxer Uprising. Of these, 189 were Protestant and 40 were Catholic. The two mission societies with the greatest toll of martyrs were the China Inland Mission, now called Overseas Missionary Fellowship, and The Christian and Missionary Alliance. The CIM (OMF) lost 79, and the C&MA lost 36. Each of these missionaries was committed to serve the Lord in China to bring hope and light to her millions. Full Article

Testimony

China Releases Bishop Zeng from Custody in Hong Kong, Mass Honors the Newly Canonized
Beijing, OCT. 31, 2000 (ZENIT.org).- Bishop Thomas Zeng Jingmu, of the underground Church loyal to the Pope, has been released from custody, the MISNA missionary agency reported today.
Bishop Zeng, 80, was arrested Sept. 14 in his town, Hangpu, in the southeastern province of Jiangxi. He was taken by force to the local prison of Linchuan. Every three days, members of the Catholic Patriotic Association, the Communist Party-controlled official church, read him the ruling on freedom of worship in China.
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Orders from Fujian Province, Fuzhou City, to persecute Chinese loyal Catholics
October 23, 2000 English Translation of Working Paper Document Regarding Catholics
This translated and signed document has been smuggled out of Fujian Province to document the Chinese Communist government's official persecution policy toward Chinese Loyal Catholics. This enforcement policy outlines the purpose, the implementation, and the results of a September 2000 crackdown on Chinese Loyal Catholics in Fuzhou City, which include the arrest of clergy, the prohibition of any material which promotes the October 1st canonization of 120 Chinese Martyrs, and confiscation of materials and pictures of Our Lady of Fatima.
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Persecution

China Clamps Down On Its Seminaries ( Religion Today Feature Today Story by crosswalk.com)
November 14, 2000 , Some of China's official seminaries are trying to stop evangelism and water down Christian doctrine.
...Leaders of the Three-Self Patriotic Movement, the state-sanctioned Protestant body, are punishing seminarians, teachers, and pastors who encourage evangelism, according to World Evangelical Fellowship. Full Article

Homily (By Father Francis Li)
On Sunday, October 29, 2000, at Immaculate Conception Cathedral in Hong Kong, this homily was offered by Father Francis Li from Taiyuan at a solemn Mass in honor of 120 Chinese martyrs canonozed by John Paul II on October 1. Along with 120 priests, this celebration of the Mass was attended by 1,200 people.)
Today's Gospel tells us that everyone who follows Jesus will not only receive a hundred-fold reward, but they will also meet with persecution. Jesus noticed Peter's reaction to these words. So at the Last Supper He repeated them to his disciples: "If the world hates you, realize that it has hated me before you.... If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also." (John 15:18-20) The history of the church informs us that the church grows in the midst of persecution. "The blood of martyrs is the seed of Christians." This is the reason that the Church in China has been growing. Full Article

"The Power of Justice will prevail."

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