• Report: Bishop of underground Chinese Catholic church taken away by police

An elderly bishop in China's underground Catholic church has been detained again by police, nine months after his release from their custody, a U.S.-based monitoring group said Thursday. Bishop Jia Zhiguo, 73, was taken away Tuesday by security agents in Zhengding, a city in northern Hebei province, the Cardinal Kung Foundation said in a statement.

When they contacted the government office, they said they'd never heard of him and hung up.