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chinahopelive.net — Outside analysis, first-hand accounts of harassment and detention, and an indirect official response, plus clarification of often misused and misunderstood terms like "illegal", "unregistered" and "underground".

edition.cnn.com — "...the pressure is pretty intense, because they try to harass your family, your workplace and your landlord. They want to evict you," she told CNN. "They want to control you."

www.getreligion.org — A blistering Vatican statement today accuses China of “unacceptable and hostile acts” during a recent government-orchestrated assembly of Chinese Catholics, which it said smacked of “fear and weakness,” a “repressive attitude” and “intransigent intolerance,” producing a “grave loss of trust.”

www.nationalpost.com — TORONTO -- A man who spied on Chinese dissidents in the United States has been living in a Toronto church since this past August to avoid deportation, the National Post has learned. The case offers a rare glimpse into how China's vast foreign espionage apparatus monitors exiled dissidents and activists that the communist government views as threats to its rule.

www.earthtimes.org — Vatican City - The Vatican on Thursday said it felt "deep pain" over the re-arrest in China this week of an elderly Roman Catholic bishop from the country's "underground" church which remains loyal to the pope. Police on Monday arrested Bishop Julius Jia Zhiguo of Zhengding, a county in China's Hebei Province some 260 kilometres south of the capital Beijing, Catholic media reported.