Catholics Under Pressure in China: 'We Are Waiting for Our Iron Curtain to Fall'

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China is tightening the screws on Christians throughout the country. Clergy and believers are being arrested, churches closed, and children are allowed in fewer and fewer religious places. Catholic communities in the northern Chinese province of Shanxi are feeling the repression on all sides. Priests tell their stories anonymously. One of them says: "The situation hasn't been this bad since the Cultural Revolution." That was one of China's most…