Communists Torture Catholic Monk in China.
THE PERSECUTION OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN COMMUNIST CHINA By Theresa Marie Moreau Benedictine monk, Brother Peter, was arrested on November 7, 1955, because he was a Roman Catholic and refused to register with the Communist-created and controlled "Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association." Brother Peter was tortured and subsequently sentenced in a so-called "trial," without a lawyer or a jury, to 20 years in a Communist prison. He suffered 26 years in prison and was tortured during most of those years. ====================================== BRIEF HISTORY OF THE PERSECUTION OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN COMMUNIST CHINA By Theresa Marie Moreau Religious and personal freedom for the people of China began to disintegrate back in 1949 (after the end of the three-year Chinese Nationalist-Communist Civil War that followed in the wake of World War II), when the Communists (headed by Mao Tse-Tung) defeated the Kuomintang -- the Chinese Nationalist …More