ASIA/CHINA - Catholic women play an important part in the life of the Church, especially for evangelisation

Thursday, 8 March 2007

Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - At the first Mass early this morning March 8 International Women’s Day, at Beijing’s Holy Saviour Catholic parish church the priest expressed best wishes to all women and said: “I wish to thank the sisters and mothers and all women, present and absent. Thank you for offering a wonderful contribution to the life of the Church and society. Today you are ever more important in the diocese, the parish, in our Basic Christian Communities, and above all to help those in need . My first catechist was a woman, my own mother”.
“I could not imagine our community without the nuns, who would gather the fruits of evangelisation - another local priest told Fides - they are involved in catechism, works of charity, community administration. In the parish we have women’s groups for evangelisation, charity, prayer … women visit the sick, talk with young people, they are in charge of Sunday School, Summer catechism …Women are part of the life of the local Church, the first to volunteer, to help”.
The priest concluded: “In the long story of martyrdom in China many women preferred to die rather than renounce faith in Christ. In the 20th century alone there were dozens of women martyrs and Chinese Catholic women of today walk in their footsteps playing


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