Today was the first time I've been to church in 5 years!
It was wonderful. But I had to share w/ you all. We had a visiting pastor talking about the catholics in China! I was like, what? ok, Catholics in China!!!
He told this story about a bishop who died this last May. Don't remember his name. But this man spent 15 years in prison. Then continued to teach Catholic Doctrine! Every couple of years he'd get caught/ And end up going to "re-education" Basically being tortured to stop him from preaching. The last time he was arrested, he had to spend 24 hours a day for 2 weeks straight listening to the Communist party's rules and doctrines on religion... And still the man left that prison, and continued to preach the Catholic teachings!
This is the year 2006! Catholics are still being tortured and prosecuted in China!! Unbelievable! You all may have heard of this but I have never in my life thought this was possible!
There is so much more to the story.. But I'm done for today.
Anyway, I just wanted to share!
It was wonderful. But I had to share w/ you all. We had a visiting pastor talking about the catholics in China! I was like, what? ok, Catholics in China!!!
He told this story about a bishop who died this last May. Don't remember his name. But this man spent 15 years in prison. Then continued to teach Catholic Doctrine! Every couple of years he'd get caught/ And end up going to "re-education" Basically being tortured to stop him from preaching. The last time he was arrested, he had to spend 24 hours a day for 2 weeks straight listening to the Communist party's rules and doctrines on religion... And still the man left that prison, and continued to preach the Catholic teachings!
This is the year 2006! Catholics are still being tortured and prosecuted in China!! Unbelievable! You all may have heard of this but I have never in my life thought this was possible!
There is so much more to the story.. But I'm done for today.
Anyway, I just wanted to share!