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globalization, HKCC, with other Christian groups, cial cost of gam bling addicts. The results were an-
published the book “Responses of Christian Churches nounced during the time of the World Cup. It also held
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to G lobalization” It also invited Professor O felia a press conference on April 23, 2006 and issued an
Ortega, the Vice Chairperson of W orld Alliance of advertisem ent in M ing Pao newspaper on April 25,
2006 to express opinions on the “Proposed Reforms
Reformed Churches, to come to Hong Kong to give
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lectures in the Chinese University of Hong Kong and to the Duty System for Horse Race B etting”
Lutheran Theological Seminary in November 2005.
She also presented a public lecture at the seminar on (b) Sexual Orientation Discrimination Ordi-
^Challenge of Economic Globalization to the Church nance
on November 13, 2005. Professor Ortega had the op-
portunity to dialogue with 2 renowned local theologi- Though there is no Sexual Orientation Discrimi-
cal educators, Rev. Dr. Lo Lung-kwong and Rev. Dr. nation Ordinance in Hong Kong and the government
C arver T. Yu, and shared her experience in Cuba. has not launched the legislation process yet, the issue
H K CC, w ith other A sian ecum enical initiative is already of great concern to the society and churches,
causing a great deal of dissension. The Com m ittee,
o rg a n iz atio n s, o rg anized the C on ference on
G lo b a lis in g E c o n o m ic J u s tic e and S o c ia l together with the Cultural and Religious Studies De-

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Sustainability”on December 9-11，005 in Hong Kong. partment of Chinese University of Hong Kong and the
Its main objective was to analyze the impact of the Hong Kong Christian Institute, held series of seminars
WTO and globalization on the poor and to identify the on 4tThe Challenge of Sexual Orientation Discrimina-
role of faith communities, the civil society and people’ tion Ordinance to the Hong Kong Christian Commu-
s

nity”on September 24 and October 8, 2005 to conduct
movements to build a.n alternative com munity a.nd
response. Professor Ortega was one of the keynote serious academic discussions from different angles. The
speakers of the conference. The articles and speeches speeches were compiled and published.
she delivered in Hong Kong w ere collected and
(c) Family Violence
published.

In order to investigate the situation of Hong Kong Since the problem of family violence has become
under the effect of economic globalization and its im- more serious in Hong Kong, the Committee co-orga-
pact and challenge to the mission and pastoral minis- nized a research project w ith Hong Kong W omen
try of the church, 4 research groups were formed with Christian Council on the attitude of Christians about
frontline workers and theologians. After public con- family violence. Under the name “Blue Sky Project” ，
sultation with congregations, 4 reports were issued on the research was launched to appeal to churches to pay
the topics of labor, privatization of public services, attention to issues of family violence and to conduct a
tourism and investment. 4 pastors from different de- questionnaire about attitudes in the churches towards
nominations were also invited to make response to the family violence. The report of the research project was
reports on January 19, 2006. The reports and response issued on May 29, 2006 along with the holding of a
speeches were collected and published. seminar on the topic on the same day.

The Committee, together with Christian groups, (d) Universal Retirement Protection
formed uHong Kong Christian Alliance Concerning
Globalization,\ The alliance organized several semi- The Committee is a member of Joint Alliance of
s
nars on the issues related to globalization. It also Universal Retirement Protection. After over one year’
launched a youth leader formation program in which discussion, the Alliance accepted 2 plans on pension
trained youth leaders conducted workshops on global­ schemes and then promoted them actively to legisla-
ization in about 20 churches and organizations. tors and government officials. The plans were also in-
troduced and discussed on different occasions in the
3. Activities in the Community Legislative Council. The Alliance organized activities

and held press conferences during E ld ers5 D ay,
(a) Gambling Watch W omen's Day and Labor Day to arouse the awareness
in society about universal pensions.
The Committee is a member of Gambling Watch.
The Watch launched a questionnaire surveying the so-

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