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Korean bishops visit border island, pray for peace
Five South Korean bishops have paid a visit to Gyodong Island, just across the border with North Korea, where they met North Korean refugees and prayed for peace on the Korean Peninsula. Source: UCA News.
Investigators reveal impeached Korean president’s plan to detain Catholic priests
South Korean investigators have recovered a set of notes from a confidant of the now impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol indicating alleged plans for targeting and detaining members of a Catholic priests’ group. Source: UCA News.
UN body calls called for immediate release of Lai
Catholic entrepreneur Jimmy Lai is being held in prison in Hong Kong unlawfully, a United Nations body ruled last week, just days before his trial under the city’s draconian National Security Law is due to resume. Source: The Tablet.
Seoul cathedral pitches camp in backyard to engage young members
The Seoul Archdiocese transformed the backyard of Myeongdong Cathedral into a campsite to engage with younger members of the Church in South Korea. Source: Vatican News.
Evidence in Lai trial may have been obtained through torture: UN
The United Nations is warning evidence in the trial of prominent Hong Kong Catholic, philanthropist and media mogul Jimmy Lai may have been obtained by torturing a witness in China. Source: UCA News.
Hong Kong Government dismisses petition to release democracy activist
The Hong Kong Government has dismissed a petition from 10 bishops to release the Catholic entrepreneur and democracy activist Jimmy Lai from prison, accusing them of using “distorted words” which verge on “contempt of court”. Source: The Tablet.
Bishops call for release of Hong Kong pro-democracy activist
Sydney Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP is one of 10 bishops from around the world who have called for the release of prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy activist and Catholic Jimmy Lai, who has been imprisoned there for nearly three years. Source: CNA.
Beijing bishop to visit Hong Kong in latest effort to promote China-Vatican relations
Beijing Bishop Joseph Li Shan will visit Hong Kong later this month, following a similar visit of Hong Kong’s Cardinal Stephen Chow to mainland China earlier this year. Source: Crux.
All of us are God’s nomads, Pope tells Mongolia’s Catholics
Just a month after celebrating a Mass in Portugal for a crowd of more than 1.5 million attendees, Pope Francis yesterday turned his attention to a local church in Mongolia that has fewer than 1500 Catholics in the entire country. Source: NCR Online.