HONG KONG (SE): The Franciscan congregations in Hong Kong and Macau celebrated their annual Transitus (passage through death to life) of St. Francis of Assisi on September 29 in Macau. 
 
Upon arrival in Macau, the group visited Our Lady of Fatima Girl’s School, then after lunch, they proceeded to the community of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of the Angels in Toishan. 
 
Our Lady of Fatima Parish was the next stop. 
 

VATICAN (SE): Pope Francis met with Bishop Michael Yeung Ming-cheung and Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Ha Chi-shing of Hong Kong, together with Bishop Stephen Lee Bun-sang, bishop of Macau, during their ad limina visit on the morning of June 23 for an hour and 14 minutes the Chinese-language Catholic weekly, Kung Kao Po, reported.
 
Together with the pope and the Vatican secretary of state, Pietro Cardinal Parolin, they discussed the ongoing dialogue with China.
 

MACAU (UCAN): Macau’s Diocesan Commission of the Family, Marriage and Life submitted the signatures of 1,500 people along with a written submission to the government opposing legislation on assisted reproductive technology.
 
It affirmed its stance objecting to artificial conception and any technologies that create life and infringe on human dignity.
 
The Macau Health Bureau announced last November that a public consultation on the legislation was to take place over 40 days from 4 December 2017 to January 12.

MACAU (SE): Known as The Angel of the Lepers, Father Gaetano Nicosia is being honoured in death, not because he was ostracised from society, but because of a lifetime of care for those who as victims of Hansen’s Disease struggled at the margins of society throughout their lives.
 
In a remote corner of Coloane Island off the coast of Macau, a colony of outcasts affected by Hansen’s Disease that had been abandoned by both the society and government of the former Portuguese enclave, became his life’s mission.
 

MACAU (UCAN): A contest calling for a new innovation in religious hymns and music in Mandarin sponsored by Radio Veritas Asia has once again attracted a wide range of classy entries, with a group from Malaysia taking out the top honours this time around.
 
Singing its own musical creation called God is Love, the group from Malaysia was announced as this year’s winner of the Veritas Cup at a Holy Music Festival held in Macau Diocesan Social Communications Centre from October 27 to 29.
 

On August 3, I joined the Salesian vocation director, Father Carlos Cheung Sam-yiu, together with two young Salesians and two other aspirants on the Salesian Hong Kong-Macau Joint Vocation Camp.
 
Organised by the vocation offices of Hong Kong and Macau region, a total of 20 young people attended the summer gathering in Macau, which ran under the theme Love and Service.