The Hong Kong Council of the Church of Christ in China (Chinese: 中華基督教會香港區會)(HKCCCC) is a Protestant Christian church organization in Hong Kong. The Church of Christ in China is a uniting church consisting mainly of churches with Congregational and Presbyterian traditions, including the London Missionary Society, British Baptist Missionary Society and others. The Hong Kong council was established in 1953 after the Communist Party of China took over mainland China.
HKCCCC is one of the sponsoring bodies in Hong Kong runs many local schools.
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“Daughter to that good Earl, once President
Of England’s Council and her Treasury,
Who lived in both, unstain’d with gold or fee,
And left them both, more in himself content.
Till the sad breaking of that Parliament
Broke him, as that dishonest victory
At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty,
Kill’d with report that old man eloquent;—”
—John Milton (1608–1674)
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Rejoice, give thanks, and sing;
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The cross of Christ your King.”
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Or some frail china jarreceive a flaw,
Or stain her honour, or her new brocade,”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)