CathAssist - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 01 Sep 2022 08:12:56 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg CathAssist - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Catholic app shut down as part of Chinese government crackdown https://cathnews.co.nz/2022/09/01/catholic-app-shut-down-as-part-of-chinese-government-crackdown/ Thu, 01 Sep 2022 07:55:01 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=151278 An app called CathAssist, designed for Chinese Catholics, was shut down last week. The company behind it was unable to get a licence from the Chinese government to continue operations. According to the CathAssist team, "Since the implementation of [new rules] on 1 March, we have made various efforts to apply for an Internet Religious Read more

Catholic app shut down as part of Chinese government crackdown... Read more]]> An app called CathAssist, designed for Chinese Catholics, was shut down last week. The company behind it was unable to get a licence from the Chinese government to continue operations.

According to the CathAssist team, "Since the implementation of [new rules] on 1 March, we have made various efforts to apply for an Internet Religious Information Service Licence. We have taken various actions including suspending sharing, changing our name, adjusting content … but getting a licence requires a much larger reduction in functionality and content".

A Catholic from a northern Chinese province said that he had the app for a long time and that it stopped working on 24 August.

Referring to the company running the app, the man said, "[They] worked hard for several months [to get the licence], but in the end they failed, so it has been shut down".

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