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Chinese flags on barbed wired wall in Kashgar (Kashi), Xinjiang, China. / Credit: Jonathan Densford/Shutterstock Rome Newsroom, Sep 15, 2023 / 18:50 pm (CNA). A Catholic priest in China was convicted of “fraud” and “impersonating religious pers...
Bishop Stephen Xiangtai Yang of Handan spent 15 years in labor camps until 1980 for defying China's communist regime
BEIJING (CNS) -- Retired Bishop Stephen Yang Xiangtai of Handan, who was persecuted and forced to spend years in labor camps during the Cultural Revolution, died at the age of 98.
Bishop Stephen Yang Xiangtai of Handan was persecuted during China's Cultural Revolution. After his arrest in 1966 he served 10 years of a 15-year sentence in labor camps and factories before his acquittal in 1980. He never joined the state-sanctioned church.
BEIJING (CNS) -- Retired Bishop Stephen Yang Xiangtai of Handan, who was persecuted and forced to spend years in labor camps during the Cultural Revolution, died at the age of 98.