{"id":44539,"date":"2022-05-16T19:05:09","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T10:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/16\/arrest-of-cardinal-zen-sends-chill-through-hong-kongs-catholic-community"},"modified":"2022-05-16T19:05:09","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T10:05:09","slug":"arrest-of-cardinal-zen-sends-chill-through-hong-kongs-catholic-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44539","title":{"rendered":"Arrest of Cardinal Zen sends chill through Hong Kong\u2019s Catholic community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zen\u2019s supporters fearful that a crackdown on churches in mainland China could spread to Hong Kong<\/p>\n<p>The activist Leung Wing-lai was in prison when he first met Cardinal Zen. In 2018, while Leung was serving a sentence for illegal assembly, Zen visited him at a remote Hong Kong prison.<\/p>\n<p>On the day of the visit, Leung recalls being pulled from the prison workshop and led into a small outdoor area to have his first and only meeting out in the open while incarcerated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe officers seemed nervous and I did not know what was going on \u2026 then I saw Joseph Zen and immediately understood,\u201d Leung said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Zen] said he had read the news and was worried about us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leung said he was surprised that the conversation did not revolve around faith; instead, Hong Kong\u2019s most senior Catholic cleric was interested in his life and family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe said \u2018Remember, you can be angry, but do not have hatred,\u2019\u201d Leung said, describing the experience as a rare moment of ease in captivity.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/16\/arrest-of-cardinal-zen-sends-chill-through-hong-kongs-catholic-community\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zen\u2019s supporters fearful that a crackdown on churches in mainland China could spread to Hong KongThe activist Leung Wing-lai was in prison when he first met Cardinal Zen. In 2018, while Leung was serving a sentence for illegal assembly, Zen visited him&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3075,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,48,371,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-religion","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3075"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44540,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44539\/revisions\/44540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}