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speaking parochial centres, in three chapels for the three Armed Services and also at the Missions to Seamen in Wanchai. There are five parochial centres where Services in Cantonese are maintained and also two Church centres in the New Territories and several preaching halls with schools in the city area. There is still a short- of clergy due largely to the war years when there was age provision for the training of ordinands. The interior repairs to the Cathedral are continuing and an electronic organ has been ordered from London. Plans for the future include the rebuilding of St. Stephen's Church and Vicarage, the oldest Chinese Anglican church in Colony, and the construction of a new parish with church, vicarage, school and play-ground in Shaukiwan.
The Free Churches, which also suffered heavy damage, are gradually recovering from the effects of the occupation. The re- storation of the Church Hall of the Union Church, Kowloon, has been completed and it is hoped to begin rebuilding the Church Hall of Union Church, Hong Kong, during the coming year.
The Roman Catholic Church maintains 12 public Churches in Hong Kong and Kowloon and many Chapels in different villages in the New Territories, and now is staffed by 150 priests, 40 lay brothers and 370 sisters which is substantially more than before the war. In the Church of China the Diocese of the Catholic Bishop of Hong Kong extends far beyond the borders of the Colony to cover the provinces of Kwangtung, Kwangsi, Kweichow and Yunnan. Due to the increase in work in the western parts of the Diocese, a sub-division has been made whereby the latter two provinces have been formed into a district known as the Yun-Kwei District. A post war development is that, instead of each parish being responsible for the payment of the stipend of its clergy, the responsibility devolves on the Diocesan Office, although each parish contributes 60% of its weekly collections and yearly donations.
There is also a Russian Orthodox Church in the Colony. The Indian Community has four places of worship, the Sikh Temple, two Mosques and a Parsee Temple. The greater part of the Indian population of Hong Kong is Muslim (about 1,100); Sikhs and Sindhis with about 300 each are also well represented. The Sikh temple which was standing before the war was destroyed during hostilities, but has now been replaced. There is a Jewish Community of about 150 mainly composed of merchants. The community is very old, dating back to the foundation of the Colony. One synagogue is maintained.
The Churches play a very full part in the educational, social and charitable work of the Colony. Many charitable institutions and much relief work are undertaken by them, but, as social welfare is the subject of another Chapter in this report, no detailed men-
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