Catholic Church launches Pope-Net for China
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- The Catholic Church aims to bring God’s representative on earth (according to the Catholic Church) to China.
Via the Net.
It’s launching a Chinese version of its website to, “bring more of Pope Benedict’s message to China, whose communist government does not allow Catholics to recognize his authority,” says Reuters.
But, “Some Church sources and diplomats said they feared the site could be blocked by Chinese authorities,” says the story, going on »»»
The Vatican said on Monday the Chinese version of the website www.vatican.va will be launched on Thursday. It already has versions in seven other languages.
The pope’s speeches and other content will be available in both traditional and simplified Chinese characters.
China’s communist government does not allow its Catholics to recognize the Pope’s authority and forces them to be members of a state-backed Catholic organization.
China’s 8 million to 12 million Catholics are split between the officially approved church and an ‘underground’ one loyal to the Pope, says Reuters, adding:
“As long as the website does not post anything the government objects to, it will be OK,” said Father Bernardo Cervellera, head of Asia News, a web-based religious news agency that specializes on China.
“But once they start talking about the nomination of bishops or Tibet or the Dalai Lama, it will be blocked just as ours has been quite often.”
Reuters – Vatican starts Chinese website but some fear block, March 16, 2009
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March 17th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
since when does the catholic church believe in sharing
March 17th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
sharing is caring
March 17th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
kinda feels like a Microsoft greeting
embrace extend extinguish
March 17th, 2009 at 3:01 pm
The Catholic Church believes in sharing and spreading… AIDS, at least. >_
March 17th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
At least they aren’t telling the Chinese they are from a different planet that a galactic overload, xenu, banished them from.
It will be interesting if the Chinese block them.
March 17th, 2009 at 3:26 pm
The church had its chance in actually converting China (if I remember one episode on national geographic) but it didnt do so…
It was something to do with Astronomy and how China at one time had some of the best, but then the title of the courts astronomers was passed down from father to son instead of more deserving people, after a few generations it was apparent the people holding the title didnt know squat… when a missionary priest was already there and the Emperor befriended him because he was an expert on Astronomy.
Thats pretty much the gist of it, do a few google searches to get the whole story as my memory is a bit rusty anyways..
Cheers!
March 18th, 2009 at 2:09 am
are you kidding me eZee?
they used to imprison astronomers or have you forgotten how the free masons and illuminati became?
galileo
etc….they have for most of time ocnsidered them to be utter pagans. Depsite the fact that many of the advances of our time have actully come from china , go research your cutlery and see where the earliest known examples are from.