A12 The World
Some forced to attend meeting to pick leaders for ‘patriotic’ church
BY KEITH B. RICHBURG
beijing — China’s government- backed “patriotic” Catholic church began a three-day meet- ing Tuesday to choose new lead- ers, defying objections from the Vatican that the conclave has no formal standing with the true Catholic Church and further straining the Chinese govern- ment’s fraught relationship with the Holy See. Pope Benedict XVI told Catho-
lic bishops not to attend the gathering, called the Assembly of Chinese Catholic Representa- tives, being held in Beijing. “This kind of organization
completely contradicts the church’s hierarchy,” said Anthony Lam, researcher with the Holy Spirit StudyUnit,which is part of the Diocese of Hong Kong. “The Holy See has already informed all individual bishops not to attend this kind ofmeeting.” There were reports, however,
that Chinese police had been dispatched to parishes to search for bishops and force them to attend. The Web site of the gov- ernment’s religious affairs office said late Tuesday that the confer- ence was attended by 341 repre- sentatives, including 64 bishops, 162 priests, 24 nuns and 91 other churchmembers. A friar at the Jing county
cathedral, in Hebei province, de- scribed one dramatic sceneMon- day nightwhen scores of Chinese police officers dragged away Bishop Feng Xinmao after a six- hour standoff as more than 30 priests encircled a police carwith the bishop inside. “Bishop Feng was kidnapped
and forced to attend that meet- ing,” said the friar, who was interviewed by telephone and spoke on the condition of ano- nymity for fear of retribution. After the bishop was allowed to attend the funeral of a priestwho had died, the friar said, police tried to take the bishop away but met a strong but peaceful protest fromhis congregation. “There were so many priests,
friars, nuns and church mem- bers,” the friar said. “The officials called formore cars and formore police backup. Some of the nuns
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Members of theHongKong Catholic Diocese protest at the Chinese government liaison office inHong Kong to demand a halt to the forced attendance of bishops at a meeting of the government-backed church.
“Bishop Feng was kidnapped and forced to attend that meeting. . . . But most of the bishops didn’t want to go because the Vatican doesn’t approve.” —A friar in Hebei province
and church members cried be- cause they didn’twant the bishop to be taken away. In the end, the bishop had to go with them. “The Communist Party
planned this whole meeting, and they want all the bishops to attend so, in the end, they can take photos and use themin their propaganda to say we have reli- gious freedom,” the friar said. “But most of the bishops didn’t want to go because the Vatican doesn’t approve.” There were news agency re-
ports of other bishops who were brought against their will to Bei- jing or who were trying to hide. The gathering of the pro-
government group comes a little more than two weeks after China ordained a bishop in Hebei prov- ince without the Vatican’s ap- proval — and forced Vatican- backed prelates to attend the ceremony. That Nov. 20 ordina- tion of theRev. JosephGuo Jincai as bishop of Chengdewas sharply denounced in an official Vatican statement, which said the pope considered it “a painful wound.” The Rev. Federico Lombardi,
the Vatican spokesman, called the ordination “illicit and damag- ing to the constructive relations that have been developing in recent times between the People’s Republic of China and the Holy See,” according to the Vatican Information Service. A Vatican statement said Guo
now faced “severe sanctions” — meaning automatic excommuni- cation. And the Vatican said forc- ing at least eight of Benedict’s bishops to attend the “illicit” ordination constituted a “grave violation of freedom of religion and conscience.” China’s Communist leaders
and the Holy See also were at odds last month over the ap- pointment of a government offi- cial as the vice rector of the Catholic seminary in Shijiaz- huang, also in Hebei province.
The Vatican has not had nor-
mal relations with China since 1951, when the country’s new Communist rulers forced its Ro- man Catholics to sever ties with the Holy See. China’s Commu- nists established their own offi- cially sanctioned Catholic church under the control of the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association, which oversees appointments of top clergy. But millions of Chi- nese Catholics still worship at “underground” churches loyal to the pope. Relations were particularly
strained during the papacy of John Paul II, who was viewed warily by Beijing’s leaders as an anti-Communist crusader who was responsible for the downfall of communism in his native Po- land and across Eastern Europe. When Pope Benedict ascended
to St. Peter’s throne in2005, there were hopes for a rapprochement, and the pontiff made establish- ing diplomatic relations with China a top priority. For nearly five years, China did
not ordain bishops without the pope’s tacit approval. So the ordi- nation of Guo in Hebei seemed oddly timed, leading to specula- tion that some elements in China may have been trying to sabotage themove to better ties.
richburgk@washpost.com
Staff researcher Liu Liu contributed to this report.
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2010
The field in Haiti narrows to 2 — or 3
Presidential runoff will include ex-first lady and government favorite
BY JONATHANM. KATZ
port-au-prince, haiti — For- mer Haitian first lady Mirlande Manigat and government-backed candidate Jude Celestin have ad- vanced to a second-round vote in the race to become the country’s next president, the provisional electoral council announced Tuesday. But theymay yet be joined by a
third candidate. The preliminary results have popular carnival singer Michel “Sweet Micky” Martelly trailing Celestin by less than 1 percent of the vote total, about 6,800
votes.Theheadof the joint Organization of American States-Caribbean Community mission said that officials could consider putting a third candi- date into the runoff if the vote is nearly tied. Martelly had said that he would not accept a spot in a
runoff that also includes Celestin. His campaign had no immediate comment Tuesday night. An appeals period now opens,
with final results to be posted around Dec. 20. The runoff is scheduled for Jan. 16. Council President Gaillot Dor-
sainvil announced the much-an- ticipated late Tuesday, reading slowly through all legislative re- sults, one by one, before revealing the presidential tallies. The clear winner in the bid for
senate seats was President Rene Preval’s Inite, or Unity, party. It advanced to a runoff in all but one of the races. The Nov. 28 election was criti-
cized by candidates for rampant disorganization, incidents of fraud and violence. In the last days of counting, tabulators had to sort out clearly fraudulent tally sheets. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said the problems were worse than originally re- ported. But the U.N. peacekeepers and
OAS-Caricom mission observer mission said the problems did not invalidate the vote. —Associated Press
U.N. peacekeepers called likely source of cholera
Scientist sent by France to aid Haitian officials offers findings in report
ASSOCIATED PRESS
port-au-prince, haiti—Acon- tingent of U.N. peacekeepers is the likely source of a cholera outbreak in Haiti that has killed at least 2,000 people, a French scientist said in a report obtained Tuesday by the Associated Press. Epidemiologist Renaud Piar-
roux concluded that the cholera originated in a tributary ofHaiti’s Artibonite River, next to a U.N. base outside the town ofMirebal- ais. He was sent by the French government to assist Haitian health officials in determining the source of the outbreak, a French Foreign Ministry official
said Tuesday. “No other hypothesis could be
found to explain the outbreak of a cholera epidemic,” Pirraoux wrote in a report that has not been publicly released. The AP obtained a copy from
an official who released it on the condition of anonymity. Piarroux confirmed that he had authored the report but declined to discuss his findings. TheUnitedNations has repeat-
edly denied that its soldiers brought the disease to Haiti or that its sanitation procedures were responsible for releasing it into the environment. U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky said in New York that there is still no conclusive evidence that the base was the source of the outbreak. Piarroux could not prove that
there was cholera inside the base or among the soldiers. But he also hinted strongly at a coverup.
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