[Persecution of Catholics in China] / collected by Fr. Francis A. Rouleau, S.J. 1959 folder. Clippings, copies, and reports from various Catholic mission journals, newsletters, newspapers concerning the persecution of Catholics in China in 1952.List of persons/topics in these articles from 1959: 12/29/59, about St. Francis Xavier; 3/8/59, arrest of Mgr. Dominic Tang and Fr. Anthony Yen Te-keng (Ren/Yan Degeng); (Fides, Oct. 14, 1959), Diaspora Chinese in Madagascar; International Fides Service, September 19, 1959, # 681, NE 693, Chinese in South Africa; International Fides Service, October 3, 1959, # 683, NE 712, “China’s Tragic Decade”, summary of Communist Party’s oppression, “obliged to apostasy”; Newsweek, June 8, 1959, on People Party Power in Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, Overseas Chinese, support for Peking; International Fides Service, August 8, 1959, # 675, NE 236-237, Catholic Relief Services for refugees in Macau, Fr. Charles de Foucauld, Srs. Dominica Pascale & Cecile Andree de Jesus, refugee Peter Chu (Zhu) about his ordeal as Catholic, 5 Catholic refugees to Macau; (Fides, April 11, 1959), Frs. Joseph Li Ts’ung-cha (Li Congzha) & John Baptist Wang Hsi-hsien (Wang Xixian) imprisoned in Inner Mongolia, accusers Chang Wei-hing (Zhang Weijing?) & Chao Kuou-fan (Zhao Guofan); National Review, February 28, 1959, pp. 553-555, Christian view of Communist recognition, persecution of religion; various articles about contemporary China, Great Leap Forward. |