In conjunction of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, the Christian Federation of Malaysia (CFM) organized a Penang Island Combined Churches Prayer Service on 22 Jan. at 8.00pm at the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit. About 250 people turned up

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The theme for the night was ‘One Faith, one Baptism, one Body, one Spirit, one Lord, one God’.

The prayer service  began with a welcoming message by Rev Francis Anthony, the parish priest of the Cathedral.

Fr Francis Chao, 83, passed away peacefully on 24 Jan. 2010 at the Little Sisters of the Poor, Penang.

On 26 Jan,, Msgr Stephen Liew led the cortege, with two nuns from the Home, to the Church of St Anne. A group of people at Church of St Anne was on hand to greet the cortege and to pray for this gentle, humble man whom they had affectionately known for years.