Religious freedom for Hong Kong
NZPA-Reuter Hong Kong A senior Chinese religious official has said that religious freedom would be maintained in Hong Kong after 1997, the year Britain is due to hand the colony back to China. “I don’t think there need be any fears or worries,” said Bishop Ting, the principal of the Nanjing Theological Seminary and the president of the China Christian Council. “They are not warranted because after 1997, Hong Kong will be a special district with a basic law of its own. The national constitution of China will not apply to Hong Kong,” he said. Bishop Ting, who arrived here from a visit to New
Zealand and Australia also said that religious freedom had returned to China and that the Protestant Church there now had three million members. Britain and China are still negotiating the future of Hong Kong and its 5.3 million people.
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Press, 14 April 1984, Page 12
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