HONG KONG (SE): The Hong Kong government must address the plight of people living in subdivided flats, who are deprived of the basic human right to housing, by substantially increasing the supply of public housing, the Catholic Messengers of Green Consciousness said. 
 
The group organised a forum on August 13 at St. Vincent’s Chapel, Wong Tai Sin, to look into the hardships of grassroots people who are compelled to live in subdivided units.
 

HONG KONG (SE): A constant visitor to the prisons of Hong Kong, Father John Wotherspoon, has become the inspiration behind the opening of the Mercy Centre, a half-way house for people who have been released from prison and facing difficulties in reestablishing themselves in society.
 
The Australian Oblate of Mary Immaculate priest is a well-known personality among the non-Chinese prison population of Hong Kong and has been a constant campaigner for foreign prisoners, most of whom he says have been convicted of smuggling drugs.
 

HONG KONG (SE): “The majority of people in Hong Kong prisons eventually are offered the grace of walking through the holy door as an experience of joy after a long sorrow,” Bishop Joseph Ha Chi-shing told a gathering of people who work in the prison ministry held at the cathedral on August 28.

The auxiliary bishop of Hong Kong added that before they get the chance to walk through the big gate to freedom, they must accept the consequences of their crimes.