Bernardo Cervellera

China’s Communist Party instructs participants that “Being a lawyer in China means that your livelihood depends on the Party, so you must obey the Party. The basic conditions for being a lawyer are to love the Party and socialism.” Some 600 lawyers, government officials and representatives from financial circles have been invited.

Chinese authorities and media have fallen silent. Articles praising pro-Beijing winners were scrapped. Patriotic and anti-US media campaigns failed, as did Carrie Lam. Beijing thinks that human rights are just food, clothing and a roof over people’s head. But the people of Hong Kong also love freedom.

For five days he has been under the supervision of public security personnel, under pressure. The Party wants to force him to attend a meeting of the "independent" clergy of Fujian. A member of Mindong: Pray for him, because he is very tired.

Christian identity is not about doing things but belonging to Christ. A strong commitment to migrants is purely sociological: no one offers them explicit witness and the announcement of faith. The testimony of the laity is fundamental to healing indifference towards God and towards others in society. Nurturing ad gentes vocations to live in "solicitude for all churches". Christians in Czechoslovakia, China, Vietnam for years in chains with the desire and the prayer to evangelize the world.

Traditionalists and progressives are seeking to overcome indifference towards God and neighbor. But they are floundering amid contradictions. We must move in the world, "going out", but by communicating the life of Christ. As with the "Pachamama" affair, there was no synthesis between dialogue and proclamation.

Pope Francis wanted to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Benedict XV's Apostolic Letter to "nurture the ardor of the evangelizing activity of the Church ad gentes" and "resume the missionary transformation of life and pastoral care with new enthusiasm". Without the mission ad gentes, the commitment of Christians slips towards a "gray pragmatism" of rituals, celebrations, faceless activities. Part One of Three.

Bishop Zhan Silu ordained Fr. Joseph Chen Ming of Mindong and Fr. John Zhang Qingsheng of Minbei. It is the first public priestly ordination in 70 years. Bishop Guo preferred not to participate due to the pressure and violence that unofficial priests are being subjected to. Threats, blackmail and violence used against priests who refuse to sign the document for the independence of the Chinese Church.

In the secular and religious media the sense of mission is reduced to things to do, acts of charity, ideological positions. Silence shrouds the "why" a missionary gives his or her life. The passion and the desire that the peoples know the love of Jesus Christ allows a prophetic impulse capable of perceiving and helping the development and destiny of peoples.

Pope Francis points to Benedict XV's Apostolic Letter Maximum Illud issued 100 years ago. The need to redevelop the mission and the announcement of Christ the Savior, warning against a mission reduced to "rituals" or "NGO activities", without life and without Christ. Today mission requires the commitment of all the baptized, especially the laity, in a world indifferent to God and to man.

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