Echo News

The Annual Thanksgiving Service for the Lily Pong Organ Scholarship was held at St Paul’s Church on 22 August.

In the morning of 26 August, flash floods and landslides swept across the border between China and Nepal, destroying areas along Tibet’s Gyirong County and Nepal’s Rasuwa District.

The 19th Anglican Consultative Council (ACC-19) met at Belfast, Northern Ireland from 28 June to 4 July.

I was fortunate this year to be able to join CR in retreat. Looking back at this journey full of grace, challenges, and powerful witness, I can truly say that I am thankful and inspired.

To promote exchange among HKSKH secondary schools and their respective parishes, the HKSKH Dioceses and Macau Missionary Area Joint Youth Ministry organised the HKSKH Secondary School Inter-School Faith Camp from 30 June to 2 July at Breakthrough Youth Village.

The celebration of the 60th Anniversary of the HKSKH Welfare Council, together with the 30th Anniversary of St Matthias’ Integrated Services – Jockey Club Youth Express and Ha Shui Wan Nursery School, was successfully held on the afternoon of 22 August.

On 15 May, inside the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, 8000 people gathered from across the parishes, schools, and social services under the HKSKH umbrella for the 5th Joint Development Day.

IARCCUM invited the church press of both the Anglicans and Catholics in Hong Kong to hold a joint interview. Cardinal Stephen Chow and Bishop Matthias Der sat down in conversation about the ecumenical road thus far, and the path ahead.

The dinner gathering ‘The Lord’s Grace Brings Warmth to Wang Fuk Court’, jointly organised by The Diocese of Eastern Kowloon Women’s League, HKSKH ‘Act of Love’, and Aspex Management, was successfully held on 11 April at a Chinese restaurant in To Kwa Wan.

The year was 1219, and the Fifth Crusade was stuck in quagmire. The Crusaders were laying siege to Damietta, an Egyptian stronghold, and the siege was going nowhere as deaths on both sides piled up.