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Hong Kong Catholics will not hold Masses on June 4 to commemorate the Tiananmen Square Massacre, fearing that they will run afoul Beijing's new national security laws. The noose is tightening around the Christians of Hong Kong. The Hong Kong Catholic Social Communications Office, the communications department of the Diocese of Hong Kong , announced on Tuesday, May 24, that there will be no memorial Mass on June 4 in remembrance of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre, as has been the case for the past 30 years. Several members of the diocese have expressed concern that “because frontline staff and...
