The trial is expected to end in early November. If convicted, they face a fine of up to HK$10,000 (US$1,275). Instead, they are being prosecuted for the lesser offense of failing to properly register their fund as a society. But the prosecution said that the fund used part of its resources for political activities and non-charity events.Ĭardinal Zen and others were earlier charged with colluding with foreign forces, but that charge was dropped. “Cardinal Zen is a ‘man of God’ at times intemperate, but submissive to the love of Christ"Īll the defendants have pleaded not guilty and the controversial fund was dissolved in October 2021. Those accused with Zen, one of Asia’s highest-ranking Catholic clerics, are lawyer Margaret Ng, singer-activist Denise Ho, cultural studies scholar Hui Po-keung, activist Sze Ching-wee, and ex-legislator Cyd Ho. However, the trial has been adjourned until Oct 26 after defense lawyers this week reportedly tried to counter police witnesses called by the prosecution, significantly delaying the process. The 90-year-old cardinal arrived at the court in West Kowloon on Sept. They were accused of failing to apply for local society registration for the Humanitarian Relief Fund, which provided aid to pro-democracy protesters in 2019. Things didn’t work out between us, but it makes me think that miracles really do happen, and that the Universe really does answer your prayers.Cardinal Zen, the retired bishop of Hong Kong, was arrested with five others in May. We kept in touch all summer and he told me that he wanted me to visit him in Europe, but I didn’t have the money, so he sent me a plane ticket and I spent 3 weeks with him touring Spain and Africa. When he left I couldn’t stop crying – I really felt something for him in only 3 days. He drove 8 hours to see me and we spent the weekend together. Well two weeks later I received a call and it was him! He told me that he wanted to come visit me in college so we could hang out. When we left that evening, I wrote my number on his hand and told him that if he didn’t call me he was stupid, but never really thought that I would see him again. We started dancing and I felt immediately attracted to him and remember thinking, he is the man of my dreams. I don’t know if it was the pull of the universe or what but he made his way through the crowd to me. We were out at a bar having drinks and dancing when I see this guy from across the room who was striking and caught my attention. Well, 2 weeks later I took a trip to visit some roommates from college. I prayed, please bring something good into my life. I needed a spark of something exciting and happy to awaken my soul and make me feel alive again inside, not just weighed down by all my obligations and issues. I remember silently praying as hard as I could that something good would happen in my life to take a way from all the heartache I was experiencing. Everything in every area of my life was at its worst and I was at one of the lowest points in my life. I remember being curled up in a ball in my dorm room crying. I was in a deep depression, struggling with school, friends, family crises, sickness, with hardly any support from anyone. I had never been a believer that the universe really answers your prayers until one late night in college.
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