Friday, August 31, 2007

China frees priests jailed over Vatican trip

The China Post-China has freed two underground Catholic priests jailed for flying to the Vatican on false passports, a Hong Kong-based group said on Thursday. Shao Zhumin and Jiang Sunian, from Wenzhou in the eastern coastal province of Zhejiang, were arrested shortly after returning from a September 2006 trip to Europe during which they met Vatican officials in Rome. Full Story