The authorities want to throw out Mgr Jia Zhiguo’s nuns for helping disabled children

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Several nuns have been helping tens of disabled children abandoned by the parents, but local authorities accuse them of violating the country’s “birth control policies” and have prevented all donations and visitors from reaching the orphanage they run. For some the nuns have been targeted in order to get back at Mgr Jia Zhiguo, Zhengding’s underground bishop, who has spent many years in prison.

Beijing (AsiaNews/Agencies) – In Wuqiu village near Jinzhou (Hebei), Catholic nuns have taken in tens of disabled children abandoned in the streets by their parents and have taken care of them for years. But they are short of money, even for nappies; and many children have to perch over buckets set into specially made wooden or metal chairs to relieve themselves. Some of them are paralysed, forced to lie on beds covered with plastic sheets, unable to express their discomfort except by groaning. Visitors are rare. But hope still lives on in this small community as does caring for one’s fellow man.

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This article brought tears to my eyes. We must pray for the nuns and the disabled children.

 

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Since China’s constitution technically allows for the free practice of religion, they find other ways to squash religious expression. It is illegal in China to abandon a child (and there is no way to place them for adoption), so, if the nuns have been picking up abandoned children and taking them in, they are breaking Chinese law.

Every child you know who was adopted from China was, at some point, left in a market, store, police station steps, etc. because her/his birthmother could NOT legally place them straight into safe arms at an orphanage. Please pray for all of China’s orphans.