The Vatican called the Chinese-language version of its website in an effort to spread the message of Pope Benedict to China, which does not allow the communist Government to recognize the authority of the Roman Catholic and some Church sources and diplomats said they feared the Chinese authorities of withholding the site as it was the fate of other sites.

The Vatican said on Monday that the Chinese version of its Web site www.vatican.va launched on Thursday. There are already copies in seven languages, the order will be the Pope of the Vatican and the contents of other traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese, and do not allow the Government of Communist China for its citizens, Catholics recognize the authority of the Pope of the Vatican and forcing them to be members of the government-backed Catholic organization, is divided among the 8 million to 12 million Catholics in the China between the Church, which has received official endorsement and the other "secret" loyal to the Pope.

While the Vatican statement expressed the hope to use the site, "Internet users around the world," the Church sources and diplomats said they feared that the site will be withheld, said Father Bernardo Kervelera President of Asia news site Asia News, a site of religious news agency and specialized in the affairs of China, "as long as site does not broadcast anything encountered by the government, there is nothing wrong. "

The Kervelera Reuters, "but soon begin to talk about the appointment of bishops or Tibet or the Dalai Lama Vchristjb the site just as always happened with the site, and China regularly obscure Internet sites deemed inappropriate, particularly those critical of the Communist Party, and the withholding of access to the sites of former New York Times and the Chinese version of the British Broadcasting Corporation (P. me. C) and the Voice of America Radio and News Agency Ming Pao in Hong Kong and the Asia Week magazine

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