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Police arrest Catholic monk from China's underground church in stabbing deaths of priest , nun

BEIJING (AP) — A Catholic monk has confessed to stabbing to death a priest and a nun whose bodies were found at the hospice in northern China where they worked, state media said Friday.Priest Zhang Shulai and nun Wei Yanhui were both members of China's unauthorized church, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. A report by AsiaNews, a missionary news agency close to the Vatican, said their bodies were found in a pool of blood after they failed to show up for morning Mass on Tuesday.Monk Zhang Wenping, 43, was arrested Thursday in Hohhot, capital of the Inner Mongolia region, the Xinhua report said, citing a police spokesman in Wuhai city where the hospice is located.Zhang Wenping told police that he had personal grudges against the priest and nun, Xinhua reported. It did not give details.Zhang Wenping, like the victims, was also a member of the unauthorized church, said Zhang Pengyao, a local priest in the official church, who confirmed the arrest.Phones in the administration depart...

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