Accident or Assasination? Priest and Six Seminarians of Underground Church Killed

otremer6 Tue Jan 03, 2012 1:46 am

Accident or Assasination? Priest and Six Seminarians of Underground Church Killed
Edit: this occurred earlier this month. More recently, Beijing has confirmed the arrest of Christian dissident Gao Zhinsheng. China's

President Hu Jintao, has also been railing against the threats of Westernization in the country.

(Peking) In the Chinese province of Hebei six seminarians and a Catholic priest lost their lives in a traffic accident. On the 11th of December the vehicle with the seven was rammed head on by a truck, as was first reported.

Father Joseph Shi Liming 39 years old, Prefect of the Seminary of the the Underground Church of Baoding, drove the car, and six seminarians, who were found with him in the small bus, were all killed in the collision. They were Joseph Yang, Joseph Bai, John Gong, Paul Li, John Wang. One seminarian, Gabriel Gao is the only one surviving, as he was hurled from the vehicle. He is still wavering close to death, but should, according to reports on local blogs, awake from his coma where he is still in the hospital of Shijiazhuang.

http://eponymousflower.blogspot.com/2012/01/accident-or-assasination-priest-and-six.html