WASHINGTON (ChurchMilitant.com) – A new U.S. congressional report is confirming increased and intensifying persecution of Chinese Catholics in the wake of the 2018 China-Vatican agreement.

The report issued on Wednesday by the Congressional-Executive Commission on China found that “After the PRC [People’s Republic of China] Ministry of Foreign Affairs signed an agreement with the Holy See, local Chinese authorities subjected Catholic believers in China to increasing persecution by demolishing churches, removing crosses and continuing to detain underground clergy.”

“In spring 2019, authorities detained three underground priests of Xuanhua diocese in Hebei province,” according to the report.

World scholars and international civil rights groups have described religious persecution in China during 2019 to be of an intensity not seen since the Cultural Revolution, according to the report.

“Observers and Catholic believers expressed concern that the agreement did not provide sufficient support for the Chinese Catholic community, with one scholar pointing out that the authorities’ persecution of both underground and official Catholic communities has actually intensified over the last year under the ‘sinicization’ campaign,” the report found.

One of the report’s recommendations to Congress is for members to advocate for “the right of Catholics to be led by clergy who are selected and who conduct their ministry according to the standard called for by Catholic religious beliefs.”

The 2018 agreement was signed while a crackdown was already being inflicted on Catholics and followers of other faiths by the Chinese regime.

The Chinese government’s treatment of other religious communities was also documented in the report.

The Commission “believes Chinese authorities may be committing crimes against humanity against the Uyghur people and other Turkic Muslims” in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in the country’s far West. Estimates place “one million or more Uyghurs” in internment camps, with reports of forced labor.

“Security personnel at the camps subjected detainees to torture, including forced ingestion of drugs; punishment for behavior deemed religious; forced labor; overcrowding; deprivation of food and political indoctrination,” the report noted.

There was evidence of “the use of electric shocks and shackling people in painful positions” in camps.

Communist authorities have also reportedly set up “a pervasive and high-tech surveillance system,” including cell phone monitoring and biometric data collection methods (fingerprinting, voice recordings, facial recognition cameras) of members of ethnic minorities who threaten the state.

The Catholic World Report pointed to legislation the House and the Senate have passed to provide more reporting to the federal government on the human rights abuses committed against ethnic minorities in Xinjiang and the transfer of technology used to enable mass surveillance.

The 2018 China-Vatican agreement on the appointment of bishops offered official Vatican recognition of the Communist-backed Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association, attempting to unite it with the persecuted underground Church — but has instead led to increased persecution of the latter by the government.

The agreement was signed in Beijing by deputy foreign ministers representing both sides and was described by the Vatican as “the fruit of a gradual and reciprocal rapprochement” that would be subject to periodic review.

But the deal was denounced by many critics as a sellout to the Communist government. “They’re [sending] the flock into the mouths of the wolves. It’s an incredible betrayal,” Cdl. Joseph Zen of Hong Kong predicted at the time.

“The consequences will be tragic and long-lasting, not only for the Church in China but for the whole Church because it damages credibility,” the cardinal added.

The deal was negotiated, in large part, by former disgraced cardinal and accused pederast Theodore McCarrick, who had close ties to the Communist Church in China.

The report’s time frame covers human rights in China from August 2018 to August 2019.

The Congressional-Executive Commission on China was established by Congress in 2000 (when China was set to enter the World Trade Organization) in order to report on human rights in the country and to maintain a database of political prisoners. Representative James P. McGovern (D-Mass.) serves as its chair and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) serves as co-chair.

The number of Catholics in China is estimated to be more than 10 million, according to the report, with official statistics indicating that 6 million Catholics are part of the state-sanctioned Church.

Although the China-Vatican agreement was to undergo “periodic review,” Vatican officials have been silent on the post-accord treatment and persecution of Catholics in China.

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Venezuela: Bishops Speak Out Over Electricity Blackout – ‘In this time of legal darkness, there has been added a literal darkness’ http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/03/20/venezuela-bishops-speak-out-over-electricity-blackout-in-this-time-of-legal-darkness-there-has-been-added-a-literal-darkness/

Venezuela’s power struggle reaches a tense stalemate, as human suffering deepens http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/04/12/venezuelas-power-struggle-reaches-a-tense-stalemate-as-human-suffering-deepens/

Venezuela: Fleeing Migrants Suffer Acute Malnutrition – Caritas Reports on Efforts to Help the Hungry; Bishop to Maduro: Open your eyes to see the suffering of the people http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/02/14/venezuela-fleeing-migrants-suffer-acute-malnutrition-caritas-reports-on-efforts-to-help-the-hungry/

Venezuelan Cardinal Jorge Urosa warns President Maduro over deaths of protestors http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2017/08/03/venezuelan-cardinal-jorge-urosa-warns-president-maduro-over-deaths-of-protestors/

HOW’S SOCIALISM DOING IN VENEZUELA? http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2017/08/28/hows-socialism-doing-in-venezuela/

Venezuela’s Bishops Ask Leaders to Think of Their People http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2016/12/23/venezuelas-bishops-ask-leaders-to-think-of-their-people/

A Socialist Venezuela has a bread shortage: The government has decided bakers are the problem http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2017/03/19/a-socialist-venezuela-has-a-bread-shortage-the-government-has-decided-bakers-are-the-problem/

Our Story – Venezuela’s Secret & 21st Century Socialism http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2016/05/29/our-story-venezuelas-secret-21st-century-socialism/

Venezuela’s socialist hell http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2017/04/24/venezuelas-socialist-hell/

VENEZUELAN ARCHBISHOP DIEGO PADRON CONDEMNS SOCIALIST-INSPIRED ANTI-CATHOLIC ATTACKS http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2017/02/17/venezuelan-archbishop-diego-padron-condemns-socialist-inspired-anti-catholic-attacks/

Venezuelan government blasted for blocking Church aid http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2016/07/12/venezuelan-government-blasted-for-blocking-church-aid/

VENEZUELA’S PRESIDENT NICOLAS MADURO FEUDING WITH CATHOLIC CHURCH http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2017/02/03/venezuelas-president-nicolas-maduro-feuding-with-catholic-church/

College for Venezuelan priests in Rome closes its doors due to the crisis in the country http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2016/07/14/college-for-venezuelan-priests-in-rome-closes-its-doors-due-to-the-crisis-in-the-country/

Venezuela: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia –  Read the source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela

New survey reveals that young Americans have little understanding of collectivism and its dark and deadly history  http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2016/10/25/new-survey-reveals-that-young-americans-have-little-understanding-of-collectivism-and-its-dark-and-deadly-history/

“GEORGE SOROS’ FORMULA FOR KILLING AMERICA” Watch the Viral Video that Exposes Soros’ Attack on the Church http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2016/11/17/george-soros-formula-for-killing-america-watch-the-viral-video-that-exposes-soros-attack-on-the-church/

A Populist Election and Its Aftermath http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2016/11/17/a-populist-election-and-its-aftermath/

5 Reasons the Church Condemns Communism as “Intrinsically Wrong”  http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2016/11/28/5-reasons-the-church-condemns-communism-as-intrinsically-wrong/

Fidel Castro’s War on Religion: From 1959 to 2006 the world’s longest-running Marxist dictator http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2016/12/04/fidel-castros-war-on-religion-from-1959-to-2006-the-worlds-longest-running-marxist-dictator/

Gloria Alvarez: Immigrants! Don’t Vote for What You Fled http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2016/12/28/gloria-alvarez-immigrants-dont-vote-for-what-you-fled/

The Catholic Church vs. Liberation Theology http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2017/12/14/the-catholic-church-vs-liberation-theology/

“A theory that makes profit the exclusive norm and ultimate end of economic activity is morally unacceptable. The disordered desire for money cannot but produce perverse effects. It is one of the causes of the many conflicts which disturb the social order. A system that ‘subordinates the basic rights of individuals and of groups to the collective organization of production’ is contrary to human dignity. Every practice that reduces persons to nothing more than a means of profit enslaves man, leads to idolizing money, and contributes to the spread of atheism. ‘You cannot serve God and mammon’”(CCC: 2424).

“The Church has rejected the totalitarian and atheistic ideologies associated in modern times with ‘communism’ or ‘socialism’. She has likewise refused to accept, in the practice of ‘capitalism,’ individualism and the absolute primacy of the law of the marketplace over human labor. Regulating the economy solely by centralized planning perverts the basis of social bonds; regulating it solely by the law of the marketplace fails social justice, for ‘there are many human needs which cannot be satisfied by the market.’ Reasonable regulation of the marketplace and economic initiatives, in keeping with a just hierarchy of values and a view to the common good, is to be commended” (CCC:2425).