Chinese Catholic Church - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 14 May 2020 02:48:22 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Chinese Catholic Church - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Chinese officials restrict aged bishop's funeral https://cathnews.co.nz/2020/05/14/china-funerals-coronavirus-covid19/ Thu, 14 May 2020 07:50:26 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=126926 Officials of the communist government in China imposed restrictions on the funeral of 98-year-old Bishop Joseph Zhu Baoyu of Nanyang. Officials allowed only 40 people to attend the May 9 funeral in Henan province. They also restricted the movement of people and banned parishioners from taking photographs of the service. Bishop Zhu died on May Read more

Chinese officials restrict aged bishop's funeral... Read more]]> Officials of the communist government in China imposed restrictions on the funeral of 98-year-old Bishop Joseph Zhu Baoyu of Nanyang.

Officials allowed only 40 people to attend the May 9 funeral in Henan province. They also restricted the movement of people and banned parishioners from taking photographs of the service.

Bishop Zhu died on May 7 of an age-related illness. Read more

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