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2. Labor Sunday - April 30 A. The 1995 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
3. Sea Sunday - July 9 The 1995 Week of Prayer was held January 18-
4. Elderly Month - any Sunday in July 25, with the theme “Koinonia: Communion
5. Health Sunday - October 22 in God and with One Another,'. Major events
6. Youth Sunday - November 5 were:
7. Bible Sunday - December 10
1. The Joint Ecumenical Communion
Service and Breakfast Fellowship for the
Clergy
Relations With Other Religions
The Service was held on January 19 at Holy
The HKCC,along with the Roman Catholic Church,
Trinity Church, Sheng Kung Hui. More than
is a member of the “The Colloquium of Religious
200 clergy and co-workers from Christian
Leaders". As usual, the Council has been cultivating
and Catholic Churches participated. Rev. Lo
friendly relationships and better understanding with
Lung-kwong was the preacher and Ms. Alice
other religions, namely, Buddhism, Taoism,
Yuk performed special music.
Confucianism and Islam.
Representatives from the Catholic Church
read the scripture lessons and six
The HKCC was involved in the following activities:
representatives from different denominations,
A. Regular Forums together with the service leader, also
Two regular forums were held, the first on distributed the communion elements. It
November 10, 1994 at the conference room of proved to be a very successful event and the
the Caritas Centre, and the second on May 25, spirit of unity was enhanced. The breakfast
1995 at Yuen Hin Hok Yin. The first meeting fellowship after the service also provided an
focused mainly on assessment of a family camp annual opportunity for strengthening our
held in October 1994. The second meeting relationships.
resulted in the formation of a working group to
take up the tasks of printing informational 2. Christian Unity Worship Service
pamphlets and organizing an open forum. As the Christian Unity Worship Service has
been held for the past two years at Protestant
B. Chinese New Year Gathering churches, this year the service was held at a
The Chinese New Year Gathering took place on Catholic Church — Rosary Church, on
February 23, 1995 at the Hong Kong Buddhist January 20. Approximately 150 Protestants
Association Cultural Centre. Mr. Simon Sit, the from different denom inations and
Council Chairperson, delivered the New Year’s Catholics joined together to worship
greetings on behalf of the Council. More than with one heart. Lt-Col. James Lau was the
100 people from six religions attended the preacher, and four Christians led the
gathering in a warm and harmonious spirit. congregation in praying for Hong Kong
churches, China churches, church leaders of
Hong Kong and China, and global concerns.

3. Participation in the Unity Prayer Meeting
Church Unity Committee Sponsored by the Catholic Church
The Committee actively promotes church unity Mrs. Louisa Li, Assistant Executive
and better understanding among the clergy of Hong Secretary, and Rev. Lee Ching-chee, 1st
Kong. Activities included the following: Vice-Chairperson, represented the Council