Chinese Communists Are Annihilating Church
Received Friday, 7.35 p.m. XEW YORK, Feb. f>. 1 he Jesuit Mission magazine declares that the Catholie Church m Xorth (hina is in danger of annihilation tliis year n s the resulf of the contiriuance bv the Chinese oi' a two-year cainpaign oi persecution. Thex magazine retlche'd this conelusion as the resuit of a survev begun last year bv its editor, Father Calvert Alexander, who traveiled th rough Xorth ("hina. rhe survev, which covers 20 provinces, indicated that during 1 940-4 1. Chinese Communists executed lnurder ed or tortured to dea.li 49 Catholie priests and brothers, converted 123 churches into movie theatres, looted 100, destroved 25 and are using 183 for Commiitiist meefing plnces. The Communists also occupied, looted or de stroyed nuhre than 1000 Catholie schools. The survev adds that though complete statistics are difiicult to obtain because of the Red terror, some idea of the mimber of missionaries expelled from the uiissions can be obtained from the faet that tliere are todav >n Feiping, S0i) refugee priests, brothers and nu ns.
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Chronicle (Levin), 7 February 1948, Page 5
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