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Catholic clergy ‘promote China’s ethnic unity law’

The government is using state-sanctioned Church bodies to promote a new law aimed at ethnic minorities.

Luke Coppen
Jun 04, 2026
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The Chinese government is reportedly using state-sanctioned Church bodies to promote a contentious new law aimed at ethnic minorities.

Sacred Heart Cathedral, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia. Credit: 三猎/wikimedia CC BY-SA 4.0.

The online magazine Bitter Winter published a June 2 article documenting an event in the autonomous region of Inner Mongolia, in which prie…

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