Hong Kong Catholics protest against the lessons of "patriotic education"

Representatives of the Catholic Church in Hong Kong joined the choir of critics opposing the new instructions of the Ministry of Education of the PRC.

New requirements provide for the inclusion of Hong Kong in the school program - this special administrative district of China - the so -called "patriotic values". Teachers' trade unions protest against the unification of the Hong Kong education system with the General City. For its part, the local Catholic diocese, under the guardianship of which there are a number of educational centers, said that new requirements contain disrespect for civil rights, Blagovest-info reports with reference to the Siberian Catholic Gazeta .

In the mentioned prescriptions, the Ministry of Education of the PRC introduces a new obligatory subject called "National Education" since 2012. Until now, in Hong Kong, as a special administrative area, there was another system of education, standing among other freedoms unknown in continental China. Now, the Beijing authorities are trying in every possible way to level the differences inherent in this territory, until 1997, which was the British colony. This, in particular, applies to educational programs. The introduction in them as an obligatory element of communist propaganda arouses the natural protest reaction of the school administration, teachers, and the whole society as a whole. The EFE agency quotes the representative of the Catholic diocese of Hong Kong Chan Nay-Kvok, who said: "This state and government exist for the benefit of citizens, and not vice versa."