Cardiff’s Centre for Chaplaincy Studies has been chosen to train chaplains for more than 150 church schools in Hong Kong.
Anglicans from the Diocese of Toronto who participated in the Anglican Communion’s one-year indaba process believe it can have a transforming effect upon the church if it is used more broadly.
The Colleges and Universities of the Anglican Communion (CUAC) met at Chung Chi College in Hong Kong during the last week in May. With more than 120 institutions on all five continents, the association promotes cross-cultural contacts and educational programs.
On 3rd February, the Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui elected the Rt. Revd. Paul Kwong, Diocesan Bishop of Hong Kong Island, to be their next Archbishop, following the retirement of Archbishop Peter Kwong on 31st December 2006. The result of the election was endorsed in a special session of the Third General Synod later the same day
'Our Church Has AIDS: Anglican Church Responds Worldwide' is the title of a video compact disk (VCD) launched at the 15th International AIDS Conference held in Bangkok, Thailand in July 2004. The VCD aims to reflect the response of the Anglican Church in different parts of the globe as the church aims to combat the AIDS pandemic
On Saturday 18 January 2002, the standards of Jesus Christ will be raised at Leao Senado Square in Macau, Hong Kong. It is the first United Christian Carnival in Macau and will take place from 12 noon to 5:30pm, followed by a prayer service in St Domingo's Church.
A resolve to promote peace, justice and real understanding between faiths was the main outcome of the meeting of the Council of Churches of East Asia (CCEA) which met in the Diocese of Grafton, New South Wales, Australia, in October.
The Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui Women's League held it third Annual General Meeting, and celebrated Holy Communion, at Calvary Church in March. The Most Revd. Peter Kong gave the benediction and commissioned new officers.
China's last Anglican bishop, K.H. Ting, may be moving a bit more slowly these days, but at the age of 85 he has seen the most important developments in the life of the Chinese Christian church and he has come deep concerns about its future.
Hong Kong's chief executive, Tung Chee-hwa, has guaranteed to a major Church gathering that Hong Kong's religious freedoms - both of individuals and organisations - will not be tampered with following the return of the territory to China.
More than 700 Anglicans gathered in St John's Cathedral, Hong Kong, last Saturday afternoon to give thanks to God for the peaceful reunification of the former Crown colony of China. They offered prayers for strength and courage to follow Christ into the uncharted waters of the future.
On July 1, 1997, a historic event will take place in Hong Kong. After 150 years as a British colony Hong Kong will return to the sovereignty of the People's Republic of China.
The Diocese of Newark in America has just passed a resolution on Hong Kong at its annual convention. The Resolution states:
Resolved, that this 123rd Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark calls upon our Primate to insist on a full and thorough review by officials of the Anglican Communion of proposals underway in the Diocese of Hong Kong to split itself into three dioceses and declare itself an independent province.
The Beijing government's Religious Affairs Bureau (RAB) will not set up an office in Hong Kong, nor will it implement religious regulations or policy after the territory's return to Chinese sovereignty in July next year. This assurance was given by Beijing's leading official on religion, Ye Xiaowen, head of the RAB in the Chinese capital, to religious leaders in Hong Kong.
