From the category archives:

Chinese Persecution

Why We Don’t Sell Chinese Products (reason 38,523)

June 11, 2009

A Chinese bookstore owner who was taken into custody and accused of printing Bibles to give to local house church congregations has been sentenced to three years in prison and fined nearly $22,000, according to a report from Compass Direct.
The report said a Beijing court today delivered the guilty verdict in the trial of Shi [...]

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The Dazzle of the Olympics…

August 25, 2008

…seems to have affected a lot of people, including The One, Barrack Obama, who seems to think that the Chinese transportation infrastructure is far superior to the U.S.A.’s. I guess that as long as you only look at the things in Beijing upgraded for the Olympics he may have a point but I’m sure he [...]

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Chinese Horrors Continue

July 12, 2008

You know things in China must really be bad when the secular media starts to take note of China’s abortion and child labor practices. HBO is showing a documentary next week that includes film shot by people posing as tourists about the Chinese child slave trade and the forced abortion and selective abortion practices in [...]

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Chinese Government Stealing Water From Its Own

June 18, 2008

Ever since we started our business we have had a policy that we won’t sell products from China. This is why you won’t find cheap statues, porecelain nightlights, St. Joseph House Selling Kits and plush dolls in our store or on our site.
If you want to see why, you can read our past posts on [...]

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Mark Shea Comments on the Catholic New Media Celebration

June 18, 2008

This is our second posting from bloggers who are attending the Catholic New Media Celebration in Atlanta this month. We asked them the question “How has new media like blogging and podcasting changed evangelization?” Here is Mark Shea’s answer:

How the New Media has Changed Catholic Evangelization for Me

I suppose the quickest summation is this: [...]

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Go to the Catholic New Media Celebration

May 21, 2008

Tags: catholic new media celebration, sqpn

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How Ironic

April 30, 2008

Isn’t it funny how these things work?

It’s the same situation with that cheap plastic statue you just bought at your local “Christian” store.  You may be against the whole situation in China, but you can’t really can’t change it on your own.  That dinky cheap crucifix you just bought (you know, the one with the [...]

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Chinese Persecution Goes On

April 19, 2008

Doesn’t it make you wonder why any Catholic or Christian store would think buying stuff from China isn’t a problem?
The Chinese owner of a bookstore near the 2008 Olympics complex in Beijing has been re-arrested and detained, only about a dozen weeks after he was cleared of allegations of illegally publishing Bibles and Christian literature [...]

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Even the US Government Thinks China Has Human Rights Problems

March 11, 2008

What a place to get your religious goods from.

Tags: Chinese Persecution

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Would You Please Contact Catholic Book Publishing?

February 20, 2008

Hi Everyone,
We have been purchasing books from Catholic Book Publishing for years now. We have been in an ongoing discussion with them about their move to print more and more of their products in China. The official answer from the company is that low cost trumps any human rights violations that China engages in. Today [...]

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