On March 30, hundreds of Hong Kong Christians prayed on a Way of the Cross march for nine activists facing jail after calling for democracy. Several of the nine – in particular Benny Tai and Pastor Chu Yiu-ming – are Christians who played a leading role in the 2014 Umbrella Movement.
Since then, Hong Kong has increasingly been walking its own Via Crucis as its freedoms and autonomy are eroded. Booksellers have been abducted, pro-democracy legislators and candidates disqualified and a Financial Times journalist expelled. I myself was denied entry in October 2017 and have received anonymous threats.
