{"id":176687,"date":"2026-09-02T13:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T05:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/?p=176687"},"modified":"2026-09-02T13:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T05:04:10","slug":"hkis-and-its-founding-church-end-ties-in-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/?p=176687","title":{"rendered":"HKIS and its founding church end ties in settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsstatic.rthk.hk\/images\/mfile_1868390_2_M_20260901135159.jpg\" alt=\"news image\"><br \/>The Hong Kong International School Association Limited (HKISAL) and the Lutheran Church&ndash;Missouri Synod (LCMS) have reached a confidential mediated settlement, bringing an end to their legal proceedings and officially dissolving their governance relationship.<\/p>\n<p>The resolution concluded a dispute that began in September 2025, when the US-based church &ndash; which founded Hong Kong International School (HKIS) in 1966 &ndash; filed a lawsuit against the school&rsquo;s operator&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.rthk.hk\/rthk\/en\/component\/k2\/1868390-20260901.htm\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#38405;&#35835;&#26356;&#22810;&#65288;Read More&#65289;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hong Kong International School Association Limited  [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-localnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}