Jimmy Lai, Chinese Catholic financier, acquitted of first in a series of charges
Religion Unplugged Jimmy Lai, media mogul and entrepreneur, was acquitted last Thursday on the first of several charges he is currently facing from Chinese authorities. Lai, a Catholic convert, was charged with intimidating a reporter of a rival newspaper, the Oriental Daily, at a Tiananmen Square memorial. Lai’s time in the courthouse was only minutes […]
ESSAY: THE VATICAN’S DEAL IS MEDIEVAL (AND THAT’S A GOOD THING)
US religion commentator MARK SILK, in an article first published on Religion News Service, reflects on the recent ‘provisional agreement’ made between the Vatican and China…