Hundreds attend mass for Tai Po fire victims as bishop dismisses talk of pressure

Hundreds of Hongkongers have flocked to a Catholic mass offered for the victims of the deadly Tai Po fire ahead of its first anniversary, as a church leader dismissed speculation that the event had come under pressure from authorities. The Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in Tai Po on Sunday celebrated a mass “in memory of lives lost over the whole year and the deceased of the Wang Fuk Court fire”. The head of the city’s Catholic diocese, Cardinal Stephen Chow Sau-yan, had earlier called on all...