{"id":4083,"date":"2005-08-11T09:30:41","date_gmt":"2005-08-11T09:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2005\/08\/out-from-underground.html"},"modified":"2005-08-11T09:30:41","modified_gmt":"2005-08-11T09:30:41","slug":"out-from-underground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/08\/out-from-underground.html","title":{"rendered":"Out from Underground"},"content":{"rendered":"

100 members of China’s underground Church to be at WYD<\/a><\/p>\n

Visiting the pope on the way<\/a><\/p>\n

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Another contingent of Chinese people has visited the Pope. They were present at this morning\u2019s audience of Benedict XVI in Paul VI Hall, just as a Chinese group attended the audience last week. Today\u2019s group consisted of 120 youths aged between 17 and 30 years, who passed through Rome precisely to greet the pope before heading for Cologne to participate in World Youth Day.<\/p>\n

During the greetings and presentation to the pope (made in Italian), the youths sang an Easter hymn. <\/p>\n

Only 20 of them come from the People\u2019s Republic of China; another 15 come from Hong Kong and at least another 60 from Taiwan. They traveled along different routes to meet in Rome and to then proceed together to Cologne. Italian priests hosting them highlight \u201cthe unity among them and their desire to share the Christian faith\u201d.<\/p>\n

Other Asian youths coming from Japan and Korea were also present at the audience. <\/p>\n

The Chinese youths arrived yesterday and will take off again this afternoon. They are all linked to the Neo-Catechumen Way of Kiko Arguello. En route to Cologne, each group will stop in one or two squares in European cities to \u201cpreach the Gospel\u201d. A Neo-Catechumen priest told AsiaNews<\/em>: \u201cAll youths of the Way who are going to Cologne will undergo this experience: they will gather in a square in Milan, Zurich, Freiburg, and there they will announce the Gospel to passers-by by singing and playing the guitar. Our Chinese friends will do the same.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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