‘As a Catholic, I am taught to love’: when bishop jailed 22 years in China was set free, and gave the sermon at a Christmas mass in Hong Kong

• Having spent 22 years in prison on a charge of being a counter-revolutionary, Monsignor Dominic Tong, the bishop of Canton, was asked if he hated his jailers
• ‘As a Catholic, I am taught to love,’ he said. His Christmas sermon in Hong Kong had a message of peace on earth and purity of heart, the Post later reported