Church Members Detained in China – AP

From AP, via Guardian Unlimited:

Police scuffled with members of an underground Catholic church in northern China who were protesting the detention of two clergymen, seriously injuring at least two people, a U.S. group said Thursday.

About 90 protesters were taken away after the demonstration Wednesday in Zhangjiakou, a city in the northern province of Hebei, the Cardinal Kung Foundation, a U.S.-based religious monitoring group, said in a statement. [Full text]

See also Underground Catholic Bishop Yao Liang is Arrested Again in China; Another Priest and Some 90 Catholics are Also Arrested by Cardinal Kung Foundation and Chinese authorities bust `illegal’ Christian meeting by AFP

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