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The Families Commission has released a report Pacific families and Problem Debt which is based partly on discussions with members of Pacific communities and 25 agencies, such as budgeting services. Many of the service providers and informants stated that belonging to, and fully participating in, churches was important to their Pacific clients. This included making financial contributions to Read more
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The God business is going gang-busters at City Impact Church and its Queenstown branch. In the year to last December, revenue at the pay-to-pray religious network topped an unprecedented $10 million – up $2.7m or 36 per cent. According to freshly-filed financials, tithes – a 10 per cent worship tax labelled “donations” – accounted for Read more
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Churches in Samoa need to adapt so that they can tackle social problems in Samoa. The Chairman of the National Council of Churches (NCC), Reverend Kasiano Le’aupepe, says the churches must play a more active role in addressing social problems in Samoa. He says one of the biggest social problems in Samoa is the love Read more
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Auckland Council has issued a warning to church collectors from the Voice of Christ Full Gospel Church after complaints about the tactics they were using at traffic junctions. The collectors apparently weaved through traffic, banging on car windows to ask for money. After a Herald report yesterday on the group’s “window-cleaner-style methods” of seeking cash at Greenlane, Read more
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A former diplomat who asked for his name to be withheld for “obvious reasons” says church donations burden the poor and they should be bold enough to “at least admit” that it contributes to hardship within families. He said the church needs to stop being “ignorant” about the plight of poor people who are “slaving” Read more
