Chinese Bishops Jailed for Decades, Whereabouts Unknown

Two Chinese Catholic bishops have been imprisoned in China for a total of 40 and 51 years each. Outside observers do not know whether they are dead or alive, and Party officials have simply said they don’t know.
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Chinese Bishops Jailed for Decades, Whereabouts Unknown
A man walks past the state-sanctioned St. Joseph's Catholic Cathedral on Wangfujing in Beijing. There are two Catholics churches in China: the officially sanctioned, Communist Party-controlled one, and an unofficial 'clandestine' Church that is loyal to the pope and the Vatican. Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images
Matthew Robertson
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St. Joseph's Catholic Cathedral on Wangfujing in Beijing

Matthew Robertson
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Matthew Robertson is the former China news editor for The Epoch Times. He was previously a reporter for the newspaper in Washington, D.C. In 2013 he was awarded the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi award for coverage of the Chinese regime's forced organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience.
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