Chinese Orphanage For Disabled Children May Be Shut Down By The Government
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I wonder if this came up during the dinner as President Obama entertained “President” Jintao? More contrast in light of this from CNS News:
Chinese government officials have told Roman Catholic Bishop Julius Jia Zhiguo of Zhengding, China, that he must sign an agreement giving the Chinese government control of a church orphanage for disabled children and that if he does not do so the government may use force to seize the facility.
In the past, the Chinese government has repeatedly imprisoned Bishop Jia, including as recently as last year, because he will not renounce his allegiance to the Holy See.
We beg the world media and leaders to have the moral courage to stand up for the approximately one hundred helpless disabled orphans who live in the orphanage and appeal to the Chinese government not to carry out its threat.
Approximately twenty years ago, someone abandoned a handicapped infant on the doorstep of Bishop Jia Zhiguo’s residence. The good bishop took the baby into his home, and that child is now about twenty years old.
Soon after Bishop Jia rescued this first disabled baby, word spread of what he had done, and more disabled babies were left on his doorstep. Over two decades, hundreds of disabled babies were brought to the bishop–some of them very sick—and this good man took every one of them in and made sure they were cared for…
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