RELIGION, RESEARCH, THE ARTS, SPORT
Kong district of the Kwangtung Synod of the Church of Christ in China has sixteen churches in the Colony. Owing to the great number of Chinese Christians that have come to the Colony from the mainland in recent years a large number of non-Cantonese speaking Chinese churches have been established. The most prominent of these are the Swatow and Mandarin speaking churches.
During the year the non-Roman Catholic church bodies formed a Council of Churches for such common action as may be needed. The churches have been able to make some contribution to refugee housing, child welfare centres and outpatient medical assistance. Religious work in the prisons has also been further developed and now includes regular worship and teaching for young offenders. Among many new churches built is a Pentecostal church in Yaumati, a Christian and Missionary Alliance Church in Kowloon and an Anglican Village Church in Kam Tin. Work is beginning on a new college of St. John the Evangelist at Hong Kong University.
The Roman Catholic Church in Hong Kong was originally under the administration of a missionary with the ecclesiastical title of Prefect Apostolic. In 1874, as a result of the increasing number of adherents to the Roman Catholic faith, a bishop was appointed to the territory with the title of Vicar Apostolic, and in 1946 the status of the church was raised to that of a diocese, extending into China. There are twelve Roman Catholic parishes with public churches on Hong Kong Island and in Kowloon, and about twenty churches in
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