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Hong Kong expects 3000 Easter baptisms

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Hong Kong’s Catholic Church is expecting that around 3000 catechumens will receive the Sacraments of Christian Initiation this Easter.


Vandals hit historic Hong Kong cemetery

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Caretakers at St Michael’s Cemetery in Hong Kong’s Happy Valley have told police that they found about 60 graves  vandalized Friday.


Pray for Chinese dissidents: HK Catholics urged

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The Hong Kong Justice and Peace Commission has urged Catholics to pray for imprisoned Chinese dissidents unable to join their families for Lunar New Year celebrations.


Zen attack counter-productive: Hong Kong Prof

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Professor of International Relations Sister Beatrice Leung Kit-fun says that the attack on Cardinal Zen Ze-kiun in Italian Catholic magazine was counter-productive.


New monks double the number of HK Trappists

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Hong Kong’s “Our Lady of Joy” monastery has doubled the number of its monks following the perpetual vows of two new Trappists on January 30.


Holy Spirit Study Centre, Hong Kong

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The Holy Spirit Study Centre (HSSC) is an organ of the Diocese of Hong Kong. It was established in 1980 by the late Cardinal John Baptist Wu as an expression of pastoral concern for China and the Church in China.


Zen hits back at critics

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Retired Hong Kong Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun says criticism of his role in interpreting Pope Benedict’s 2007 papal letter to Catholics in China is “unfair” and “groundless”.”.


Hong Kong diocese fails again in school court challenge

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The Court of Appeal has thrown out Hong Kong diocese’s second challenge to the government’s school-management policy that it fears will hinder their ability to govern Church schools.


Honeyville Canossian Retreat House, HK

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Originally a family villa, Honeyville was donated to the Canossian Sisters to maintain a sisters’ rest home and a home for visually disabled girls.


HK ‘milkshake murderer’ in final appeal

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Nancy Kissel, an American expatriate and Catholic convert, sentenced to life in prison for the “milkshake murder” of her investment banker husband, has made a final appeal against her conviction in a Hong Kong courtroom


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