Wall Street Journal Editorial Board: Hong Kong’s Coming Religious Crackdown: “Communist Party chief Xi Jinping has tightened control over religion in China to a degree not seen since Mao.”

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Hong Kong’s Coming Religious Crackdown – WSJ Hong Kong’s Coming Religious Crackdown A Vatican envoy warns Catholics in the city of possible persecution. The Editorial Board July 13, 2022 WALL STREET JOURNAL Freedom of speech, assembly and the press are gone in Hong Kong, and there’s good reason to fear religious liberty will be the next target. That was the warning from Monsignor Javier Herrera-Corona, the Vatican’s unofficial envoy in Hong Kong, as he prepared to leave the city this spring after six years. Reuters reports that in four private meetings he encouraged some 50 Catholic missions in the city...