South Texas Catholic (Corpus Christi, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, June 23, 1989 Page: 1 of 20
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Vol. XXIV, No. 23
Serving the Diocese of Corpus Christi since 1966
June 23, 1989
Asian Catholics protest
bloody China crackdown
By NC News Service
CHINA—Catholics from Taiwan to the Philip-
pines have protested the bloody suppression of pro-
democracy demonstrations in Peking by Chinese ar-
my units.
But several bishops of China’s government-
approved Catholic Chut'ii said they had heard
nothing about the crackdown.
In Taiwan, retired Archbishop Stanislaus
Lokuang of Taipei planned to preside at a Mass June
11 commemorating the victims of the military attack
on the civilian demonstrators.
About 500 students at Fu Jen Catholic University,
whose president is Archbishop Lokuang, joined a ral-
ly in Taipei protesting the crackdown.
“Our students unfolded white banners and wore
black armbands to express their grief over the death
of their companions ir. Peking,” said Li Hsuan-
chung, director of the university’s public relations of-
fice.
The June 3-4 incident in China’s capital, which
was reported to have resulted in the death and injury
of thousands of civilians in Peking’s Tiananmen
Square, was a clampdown on the peaceful seven-
week pro-democracy movement led by university
students. The Chinese government called the
demonstrators “counterrevolutionary” and the
“dregs of society.”
Official Chinese media mentioned no civilian
deaths, but said hundreds of soldiers were killed.
Other reports told of fighting between army units
opposed to the bloody crackdosvn and those adhering
to the government’s policy.
Taiwan’s President Lee Teng-hui condemned the
violence in Peking as an “act of madness.”
In the Philippines, Cardinal Jaime Sin of Manila
said he was “greatly dismayed to receive the news
that the Chinese government has started to apply
military force on the students clamoring for
democratic reforms. Violence cannot be the solution
to the problem.”
“Violence can only breed more violence,” the car-
dinal said. “I pray and hope that this outburst of
violence will be the last.”
The cardinal linked the incidents in China to the
Philippines’ communist-led guerrilla movement.
“I wish to appeal to our countrymen who still
espouse the communist ideology,” he said. “Please
open your eyes to the reality that communism can
only make our lives more miserable.”
Cardinal Sin, who visited China in 1984 and 1987,
is part-Chinese and has relatives in Xiamen, Fujian
province.
In his 1987 visit, he met Communist Party general
secretary Zhao Ziyang.
Zhao, regarded as a moderate, was pushed from
office in the intraparty struggle that erupted during
the demonstrations.
In Hong Kong, Cardinal John Baptist Wu Cheng-
chung issued a statement June 4 noting the bloodsh-
ed in Tiananmen Square “with regrets and deep
grief.” „
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A banner hangs at Peking University at the
beginning of the students’ pro-democracy
protests. The army attacked and killed many
students who had occupied Tiananmen
Square. The Communist Chinese government
recently sentenced some of the organizers to
death. (NC photo from UPI-Reuters)
‘E WTN-Europe ’
Diocese, EWTN form
24-hour radio network
CORPUS CHRISTI-—Bishop Rene H. Gracida
and Mother Angelica, foundress of Eternal Word
Television Network (EWTN), recently announced
the formation of a 24-hour Catholic radio network to
be broadcast throughout North America from Cor-
pus Christi and Birmingham, Ala.
The joint venture of Bishop Gracida’s Catholic,
Communications Network (CCN) and EWTN will
mark the first cooperative venture of its kind In
Church history.
In a statement, the bishop said (his network is “the
fulfillment of a dream. When the project is com-
pleted, the word of God cap be broadcast
simultaneously to millions in Canada, Mexico, the
United States and portions of Central America.”
He added, “It is fitting that this broadcast should
originate from the only city in the world named for
the Body of Christ—Corpus Christi.”
“Now wherever people are in their care or at
home, we will be able to sha re the power of the gospel
and the truths within the Catholic Church,” stated
Mother Angelica, a cloistered Poor Clare Sister of
Perpetual Adoration.
Donald E. Holley, CCN executive vice president
and general manager, said that currently CCN sta-
tion KHOY-FM in Laredo, Texas, originates a
24-hour base network of Spanish-language music and
spiritual-growth programming, while its sister sta-
tion, KLUX-FM in Robstown/Corpus Christi, of-
fers the same type of programming in English.
These two signals will be uplinked from CCN
headquarters in Corpus Christi to EWTN
transponders, where additional programming from
EWTN will be added, explained Holley. The
resulting network signals in both languages will then
be available to a growing network of FM radio sta-
tions, translators, satellite and cable reception points
in North America.
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