Vatican protests arrests

Navarro-Valls listed three recent cases.

He said that since May 27 there has been no news on the bishop of Xuanhua, who was taken into police custody. Another bishop in Xiwanzi was held from June 2-12 while the bishop of Zhengding was held for five days by authorities, the Vatican spokesman said.

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