In
Soothing Hong Kong With Symbols: Bible Exhibit Is Latest Gesture by Beijing Since April Decision to Stifle Democracy, Edward Cody writes
The two antique volumes were among dozens gathered by China's officially sanctioned Christian churches and put on display in Hong Kong's sleek harbor-side convention center. It was the Communist government's latest gesture to reassure this former British colony, particularly its 600,000 Christians, that being ruled by Beijing is nothing to fear.
Unless they are members of the independent church, as CHRISTOPHER BODEEN wrote in
Chinese Sentence Three Church Activists:
A Chinese court on Friday sentenced three activists in the independent Protestant church to up to three years in prison for leaking state secrets, a court official and overseas church activist said.
The crime? They were declared
guilty of passing on information to an overseas magazine about a court case involving another member of the independent church...[and] of passing on information about the destruction of unofficial churches outside Hangzhou in a crackdown last year....
Well, that's reassuring.
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