{"id":7831,"date":"2003-10-27T12:56:28","date_gmt":"2003-10-27T17:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/10\/27\/chinese-police-arrest-12-catholic-priests\/"},"modified":"2003-10-27T12:56:28","modified_gmt":"2003-10-27T17:56:28","slug":"chinese-police-arrest-12-catholic-priests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/10\/chinese-police-arrest-12-catholic-priests\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese police arrest 12 Catholic priests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articles\">Police in China have swooped on a religious retreat and detained almost a dozen Roman Catholic clergymen. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">A church in the vicinity was then demolished in further proof of the country&rsquo;s lack of religious freedom. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">The 12 priests and seminarians were attending a retreat on 20 October in Gaocheng county, in Hebei province&#8217;s Shijiazhuang city, when police struck, the Connecticut-based Cardinal Kung Foundation said in a statement reported by AFP. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">The gathering was not supported by the government-sanctioned &#8220;Patriotic Association,&#8221; &#8211; the body that oversees all state-approved churches in China, the foundation said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">&#8220;They are charged with illegal assembly. I don&#8217;t know if they will be released soon,&#8221; a worker at the detention center where the priests are being held told AFP.<br \/>[<a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/NR\/exeres\/8BA27206-19CF-4AB6-94DC-AA5F12FEB9D4.htm\">Full Story<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in China have swooped on a religious retreat and detained almost a dozen Roman Catholic clergymen. A church in the vicinity was then demolished in further proof of the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}