Red Book Of Chinese Martyrs by Gerolamo Fazzini PDF

By Gerolamo Fazzini

ISBN-10: 1586172441

ISBN-13: 9781586172442

This strong booklet provides files spanning the struggle among the Communists and chinese language Nationalists within the mid-1940s as much as 1983, presently prior to the "modernization" promoted after Mao's demise. those are memoirs of these who've skilled of their personal flesh how a ways violence of an influence blinded through ideology can move, an influence which, after successful its conflict opposed to defense force, determined to exterminate its "enemies with no gun", as Mao referred to as intellectuals, believers, and rivals. From the ancient standpoint those are priceless assets, in particular for a person who desires to know about the injustices and brutality of Maoism. only in the near past have non-specialists had entry to autobiographical tales in regards to the laogi, the chinese language compelled hard work camps.

For years ideological luggage encumbering journalism approximately China severly restricted possibilities for listening to tales of Christian persecution and martyrdom, even though, after a long time of propaganda, we're eventually seeing a "demythologization" of Mao, a guy chargeable for crimes equivalent to or perhaps worse than these of Stalin and Hitler.

In this publication you can see what a tragedy has befallen the chinese language humans, in specific the believers. yet all this has no longer destroyed their religion. Gerolamo Fazzini, a certified journalist, is the co-director of the per thirty days journal global and project of PIME (Pontifical Institute for overseas Missions), and an editorial author for the day-by-day newspaper Avvenire. a professional on overseas themes and faith information, he coordinates the Italian Federation of the Missionary Press which represents approximately 40 missionary guides. He has pronounced on numerous tales in Latin the US, Africa, the center East and China. Illustrated with sixteen pages of photos.

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