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A First for Taiwan: A Catholic Vice President
Mitsuru Tamura / Yomiuri / The Yomiuri Shimbun
John Burger • January 19, 2016
Taiwan made history last week when voters elected a woman as president for the first time in the island nation’s history.
But Tsai Ing-wen’s election as president in a landslide victory wasn’t the only first. Tsai’s running mate, Chen Chien-jen, became the first Catholic to be elected as vice president.
Taiwan, where the Republic of China relocated after of Mao Zedong’s 1949 Communist Party takeover of Mainland China, is largely Buddhist and Taoist. Only about 4.5 percent of its population of 23.4 million is Christian. There are about 270,000 Catholics.
But local Catholics say Chen’s election on January 16 could help raise the profile of the Church, according to an article at UCA News.
http://aleteia.org/2016/01/19/a-first-for-taiwan-a-catholic-vice-president/
She's a member of the Democratic Progressive Party.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Progressive_Party
