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Hong Kong Catholics to remember Tiananmen Square protesters
This year s vigil has been canceled by police but seven Catholic churches have scheduled Masses for June 4
Updated: June 03, 2021 07:17 AM GMT
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A woman places a candle on a railing during a candlelit remembrance at Victoria Park in Hong Kong on June 4, 2020, to mark the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. (Photo: AFP)
The protesters killed in Tiananmen Square in mainland China on June 4, 1989, used to be remembered in Hong Kong with an annual candlelight vigil in the city’s expansive Victoria Park, attended by crowds as big as 130,000, all holding flickering candles.
Now the lawful gatherings seem to be limited to seven Catholic churches. The reason for the dramatic downsizing? Politics and the pandemic.
Claretian musical in Macau sounds optimistic note
Audiovisual project was produced in close collaboration with the dioceses of Macau and Hong Kong
Updated: May 26, 2021 09:40 AM GMT
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A musical project sponsored by Claretian missionaries in Macau offers a message of hope during the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo: Jornal O’Clarim)
Claretian missionaries in Macau have sponsored an audiovisual musical project that seeks to offer hope to people in the time of Covid-19 pandemic in the former Portuguese colony and beyond.
The project,
União Ligados por Adversidade (Union Connected by Adversity) is “an extraordinary response to an extraordinary situation,” said Father Jijo Kandamkhulaty, director of Claretian Publications in Macau.
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