Hong Kong’s Cardinal Chow says celebrating Christmas will bring hope after fire

Hong Kong’s top Catholic priest has said the city’s deadliest fire in decades underscored the fragility of life, but celebrating Christmas amid the grief would share the “sweetness, acidity, bitterness and heat of our humanity”. Cardinal Stephen Chow Sau-yan, head of the Catholic diocese of Hong Kong, said in his Christmas message on Tuesday that the festival also pointed towards “a clear way out to a radically new and promising life”, following the blaze in Tai Po that broke out on November 26...