Hong Kong diocese sees ‘political persecution’

April 20, 2020

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CWN Editor's Note: Hong Kong police have arrested 15 prominent public advocates for democracy, in what the justice-and-peace commission of the local Catholic diocese described as “obviously political persecution.”

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