Hong Kong

Bishop Stephen Chow Sau Yan, SJ, of Hong Kong Diocese, stressed the formation of laity, young people and clergy for a synodal Church in the coming years, in his advent message for 2022.

These are Catholic leaders, scholars, and human rights activists who have publicly shown their support for Zen as his trial commences.

The criminal trial of Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun of Hong Kong has been delayed after the judge tested positive for COVID-19, Hong Kong media reported.

The Church of Hong Kong offers its contribution in a spirit of communion to the synodal journey of the universal Church in preparation for the 16th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops (2021-2023)

The keynote speaker will be Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, prefect of Propaganda Fide (also known as the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples).

"Young people have a lot of good qualities for us to learn from, " says Bishop Stephen Chow Sau-Yan of Hong Kong.

A Canadian nun who has worked over three decades of missionary life in Hong Kong is to return to her home country.

On May 24, 2022, in Hong Kong, Cardinal Joseph Zen offered Mass and prayed in solidarity with Catholics persecuted in mainland China after his court appearance.

Cardinal Joseph Zen appeared in court in Hong Kong on May 24, a day that is the World Day of Prayer for the Chinese Church.

Son Sebastien Lai accepted the award on his father’s behalf.

Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun is scheduled to appear in court May 24, according to a report by the British daily The Guardian.

Cardinal Joseph Zen has been arrested by the authorities in Hong Kong, according to local media reports.

Trappist Monk, Dom Clement Kong Hak-mun was the first Chinese abbot to head the Our Lady of Joy Abbey of the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance in Hong Kong.

Bishop Stephen Chow Sau-yan of Hong Kong called on priests to be shepherds and not opinion leaders.

Hong Kong's Bishop Stephen Chow Sau Yan called Catholics to pray for Ukraine. "Russia's attacks on Ukraine are deeply disturbing to us,” says Hong Kong's Bishop Stephen Chow Sau Yan in a pastoral letter dated February 25.

Jesuit priest Stephen Chow Sau-yan, 61, has been named the ninth Catholic bishop of the Chinese special administrative region of Hong Kong on Monday, May 17.

Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun has warned that the recent arrest of Jimmy Lai shows a rise in “political intimidation” against journalists in Hong Kong, part of a systematic erosion of basic freedoms, including religious freedom, by the Chinese government in recent months.

With changes brought about by the global health crisis, the Diocese of Hong Kong announced that it will focus its pastoral work in the coming year on “parish renewal”.

Hong Kong’s Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun came home from a four-day visit to Rome with nothing but hope that the Holy See would address issues being faced by the Church in China.

The apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Hong Kong has instructed members of the clergy not to include personal social and political views in their homilies.