A 72-year-old bishop in China's underground Catholic Church was detained when authorities took him from a hospital as he was recovering from surgery, a US-based group said yesterday.
Bishop Jia Zhiguo (賈志國) was detained on June 25 by officials from the religious affairs bureau in Jinzhou, a city in northern Hebei Province, said the Cardinal Kung Foundation, which is based in Stamford, Connecticut.
The foundation said Jia might have been detained to prevent him from contacting a Vatican delegation that was in Beijing to discuss possible diplomatic relations between the communist government and the Holy See.
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