ICC Note: Catholic priest in China still remains missing after being taken away by Chinese authorities eight months prior. No news has been heard since his abduction. Members of the churches he cared for continue to pray for his perseverance of faith and safe return.

09/05/2018 China (World Watch Monitor) – Nothing has been heard from a Chinese Catholic priest, now missing for eight months after he was taken away by the authorities in December 2017, UCA Catholic news agency reports.

Any contact with Fr. Lu Danhua was lost after the personnel of Qingtian Religious Affairs Bureau visited him in his dormitory of Qingtian Catholic Church in Zhejiang province and took him away with them.

Answering enquiries about the priest’s location, the bureau has claimed he was in Wenzhou studying new religious regulations and that he would return to his diocese after legal registration.

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