Report: Beijing pressured US Catholic organization to withdraw invitation to scholar
August 04, 2026
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CWN Editor's Note: Chinese government officials successfully pressured the US-China Catholic Association to disinvite its scheduled conference keynote speaker, according to Bitter Winter, an online magazine of religious liberty and human rights.
Bitter Winter reported that the disinvited keynote speaker was Fenggang Yang, the founding Director of the Center on Religion and the Global East at Purdue University.
The US-China Catholic Association, according to its website, was “founded in 1989 by concerned U.S. bishops, Maryknoll, the Jesuits, and representatives of other religious orders in order to promote mutual support and fraternal ties between the Church in China and the U.S. Church.”
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Posted by: Randal Mandock -
Aug. 06, 2026 11:13 AM ET USA
Not surprising that the cited religious orders would bow to the CCP as they bowed to liberation theology in Central America.
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Posted by: grateful1 -
Aug. 04, 2026 8:28 PM ET USA
As long as the Vatican sees fit to kow-tow to the Beijing regime in a secret agreement regarding the appointment of Chinese bishops, atrocities like this one are to be expected. The USCCA has no incentive to be less obsequious to Communist China than Pope Leo himself is.
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Posted by: feedback -
Aug. 04, 2026 11:49 AM ET USA
This means that the speaker Fenggang Yang has important things to say. And it means that the "US-China Catholic Association" isn't independent from the Chinese regime.
