Am Sonntag wurde eine Art italienischer Katholikentag in Rimini eröffnet, organisiert von der Laienbewegung Comunione e Liberazione mit rund 150 Veranstaltungen, 700.000 erwarteten Teilnehmern und dem Motto: Die Erkenntnis ist stets ein Ereignis.

Zenit.org hat einen englischsprachigen Bericht über den Vortrag des chinesischen Katholiken Harry Wu, der 19 Jahre im Lager verbracht hat und zur Situation in China drastische Worte findet:
"Under this communist regime, he stated, more than 50 million people have been killed, which is more than those murdered by the Holocaust and under Stalin's administration. ...
He explained, "In 1950 Stalin's experts went to China to develop the concentration camps, and this system remains today."
"By now we count that there are at least about a thousand laogai," Wu said. "Here prisoners work 12 hours a day without receiving any wage from the government, producing commodities that are sold in the Western markets."
He also spoke about other problems in his homeland, including "30 thousand organ transplant operations in 2006." The human rights activist explained that "95% of those organs come from people condemned to death." ...
Wu urged all Westerners: "When eating on your filled plates, remember that the Chinese cannot go to Church, that they are not free to access the Internet or to criticize their government. Speaking of elections in China is meaningless. There is no voting in China, only talk of the economy, of money."

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