The Vatican, through the Fides news agency, has started a blog aimed at Chinese Catholics, hoping to provide a space for information, dialogue, exchange and educational material, said reports on Fides and the Vatican Insider.

The Being Catholic in China blog was created in “order to facilitate an exchange between the brothers and sisters of the Roman Catholic Church in China”, its subheading states.

The first issue discussed in both Chinese and English, regards the latest illegal Episcopal ordination, meaning without a papal mandate, approved by Beijing’s authorities, the Vatican Insider states.

This blog will also be an instrument of unity of the Church in China with all the Churches in the world and the Universal Church, according to Fides.

The Vatican Insider report also touched on a separate matter related to China, saying that Hong Kong’s Cardinal Joseph Zen purchased an advertisement space in the newspaper “Apple Daily”, to make an “urgent appeal” to the Chinese President Hu Jintao and Prime Minister Wen Jiabao.

Signing as “an elderly citizen of Hong Kong”, the cardinal has asked the two leaders to “spare a little of their time to offer care to Catholics” in China and stop those “rogue officials who are violating the State Constitution, using violence, and bringing out the scum that exists in the Church, forcing Chinese bishops, priests and laymen to do things their way”.

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VATICAN- The blog “Being Catholics in China” has been set up (Fides)

China: Cardinal Zen’s media appeal to the government (Vatican Insider)

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