There has been days of demonstrations in the city over a planned extradition bill that would have allowed suspects to be extradited from Hong Kong to mainland China.
Hong Kong’s leader Carrie Lam on Sunday apologised for proposing the bill which has since been suspended but the unrest has grown with protesters demanding she resigns.
Karen Chu is a Christian and a student at Hong Kong University.
She told Premier that many Christians have been involved with the demonstrations.
“I actually haven’t gone out to protests at all, just because for me I decided that I want to just pray in my own time and in my own space, but there has been a lot of Christians that went to protest, which…I guess has not been seen before,” she explained.
“Hong Kong Christians have always been criticised as people who don’t care about politics, or people who don’t speak out about it – which I don’t agree with.”
You seen what’s happening in #HongKong? The unofficial anthem of the vast crowds protesting against new extradition laws is ‘Sing halelujah to the Lord’. One newspaper says it feels more like a vast prayer meeting than a political protest. Maybe its both #prayforHK
??John Malcolm pic.twitter.com/HtSF7vOh1T— Pete Greig (@PeteGreig) June 17, 2019
She validated reports of “the unofficial anthem” of the vast crowds protesting.
“Churches and a lot of Christians have been organising…
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