Hong Kong bishop: The Catholic church in China is being ‘murdered’

In an appeal he sent to the world’s 223 cardinals, Cardinal Joseph Zen, the retired Bishop of Hong Kong, warned that the Catholic Church in China is being “murdered” by the communist regime while the Vatican stands idly by. “A totalitarian regime doesn’t compromise,” Zen said. “They want complete surrender.” Cardinal Zen, in an appeal to the Vatican that was written in September but only released this month, detailed some of the Chinese regime’s crimes: “Christian churches have been destroyed by authorities; Two million Christians and Buddhists are being kept in detention; Christian teachings have been reinterpreted according to socialist doctrine; Churches in Hunan province were forced to remove displays…