This year, for the first time, World Marriage Day was celebrated in New Zealand at a Wellington Event organised by the Centre for Marriage and Family (CMF). The Family Fun Day Out at Aotea Lagoon included games and spot prizes, a walk around the lagoon, cakes, live music and a sausage sizzle. Many young couples Read more
Last month the Church of Scientology opened a new headquarters in Auckland. The premises at 136 Grafton Road is housed in one of Auckland’s landmark heritage buildings – the red-brick former Whitecliffe Art College. The international leader David Miscavige mingled with the hundreds of attendees. They included local followers as well as curious members of Read more
Father Christopher O’Neill says he can foresee his church in Invercargill becoming a predominantly Asian congregation in future decades “if things carry on the way they are at the moment”. He estimates that up to 30 per cent of his regular congregation are from the Filipino community. With the launch of the Southland Regional Development Read more
Cardinal John Dew says the topics for the Wellington Archdiocesan Synod in September “are primarily drawn from the directions Pope Francis has been putting before us.” The topics will be the subject of the diocese-wide consultation process which begins on 7 May. They are: The peripheries of society Our own peripheries Refugees and migrants Care Read more
The 100th anniversary of our Blessed Mother appearing to three shepherd children at Fatima in Portugal officially begins on May 13 Mary appeared there six times, once a month from May through October. Most people know about the Miracle of the Sun during that October 13 apparition that was witnessed by at least 70,000 people. Read more
The first Diocesan Youth Mass for 2017 in the Auckland Diocese was led by year 13 students from 9 Catholic schools; 8 from Auckland one one from Hamilton. It was held in St. Patrick’s Cathedral last Sunday evening, 12 February. Bishop Charles Drennan from Palmerston North, who was in Auckland for a meeting, joined five Read more
“Right now, our staff are in Kaikōura with Te tai o te Marokura Health and Social Service, looking at how the earthquake has impacted kai moana in the area, and how this has in turn impacted whānau health, said Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand Director Julianne Hickey. She was making an oral submission on the 2017 Read more
The leaders of the Roman Catholic, Anglican and Methodist churches, have issued a statement expressing support a group of students threatened with deportation. The students who come from India arrived on fraudulent visas. “Having looked at their situation it seems to us that these students have been duped by unscrupulous immigration agents in India,” Anglican Read more
Destiny Church leader Bishop Brian Tamaki has revealed himself as a passionate Trump supporter and hopes New Zealand will have a leader “like him” one day. Tamaki took to Facebook to blast United Future leader Peter Dunne, calling him a “rat” and a “pathetic specimen of a man”, following Dunne posting an open letter to Donald Trump Read more
Right to Life has commended Labour leader Andrew Little for once again confirming that Labour will not be introducing a private members bill on Euthanasia. In letter to the secretary of Right to Life written in December last year Little said, “Labour’s position is to support the cross-party select committee inquiry”. “Euthanasia is a conscience Read more