Lo Yuk Fai's Blog

Category: World

  • Standing Together in Hope

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    An event organized by the Hong Kong Refugee Ministry Group at the Church of Christ in China Wanchai Church in response to the 2021 World Refugee Day. 24 photos: Slideshow, Album

  • Merry Christmas

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    May the Peace of Godbrought bythe Prince of Peacebe with youandpacify your heart Merry Christmas

  • Through the Fire of Persecution

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    The cab was entering the roundabout, I pointed at a nearby spot and signalled the driver to stop there. I clumsily got off the taxi with my camera and bag and he thanked me for the little tip. “Ma’a salama,” I bade farewell to him with my broken Arabic as he began to drive away.…

  • Peace with the Earth

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    When God commanded Adam and Eve to be fruitful in Genesis, the land was still virgin and undefiled. Adherents of the three major monotheistic faiths have since taken this commandment literally, populating the earth and multiplying descendants, as with other peoples on this blue planet.

  • Trent 1475

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    Before the Holocaust there was the Merchant of Venice, before the Merchant of Venice there was the Spanish Inquisition, before the Spanish Inquisition there was the Simon of Trent, and before the Simon of Trent there was the Black Death, before the Black Death there were the Crusaders… The book Trent 1475 documents the proceedings…

  • Relief Works for Yunnan Earthquake Survivors

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    More than 200,000 people have been evacuated and 700,000 affected. At least 7,000 houses were destroyed and numerous others damaged. Below are links to the initial work reports of several NGOs and online donation forms: Oxfam Red Cross The Salvation Army UNICEF World Vision Do not withhold good from those who need it, when you…

  • Occupy Central and… What’s Next…?

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    Yesterday night, the Occupy Central community organized a music festival to greet the eviction order handed to them by the High Court. Lots of youngsters vented their emotions via loud music. At 10-month, it may be one of the longest continuously running Occupy movements in the world. Many others had been put to stop, gone into hibernation from time to…

  • My Rohingya

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    Amnesty International Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Coalition for a Free Burma co-organized a film screening of a documentary named My Rohingya at Kowloon Union Church yesterday evening. The documentary was produced by a female reporter (Thananuch Sanguansak) from Thailand and focuses on the Rohingya people, practically a “stateless” people living primarily in Burma/Myanmar, and also in nearby…

  • Tibet

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    When I was in Amman, Jordan, a Japanese student once asked me, “What do you think about the situation in Tibet?” I was totally dumbfounded. In the past week, there were two public memorial services for Tibet in Hong Kong. So I grabbed the opportunity to educate myself…

  • Garbage City

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    Better a meal of vegetables where there is love​than a fattened ox where there is hatred.– Proverbs 15:17 Garbage City (17 photos)