ASIA/HONG KONG - Hong Kong’s Chinese University opens new Centre for Christian Studies

Tuesday, 16 January 2007

Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - Growing interest for Christianity, Christian tradition and history promoted the Chinese University of Hong Kong to open a new Centre for Christian Studies. At the inauguration ceremony the director of the new Centre Pastor Lo Lung Kwong, said that besides promoting studies in Christian theology the Centre will organise initiatives to foster ecumenical relations among Christians in Hong Kong by means of academic competence, publications, meetings, cultural events and exchange with similar centres in other countries. According to the new agency Eglises d’Asie, run by the Paris Foreign Missions Society, among those present the Catholic Bishop of Hong Kong Cardinal Joseph Zen who praised the initiative underlining the pastoral and cultural urgency to spread the Christian message in China.
Hong Kong University is a state institute today but it was founded in 1963 with the merging of three private Protestant Institutes of Culture. The University has always specialised in the study of religions. In 2004 it opened a Department for Cultural and Religious Studies which offers studies in Buddhism, Taoism and Christianity. (PA) (Agenzia Fides 16/1/2007 righe 24 parole 248


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