According to Nielsen statistics, a whopping 429,000 Kiwis tuned into TV2’s Gloriavale special, A Woman’s Place on Wednesday night. The doco-series follows the young residents living in an exclusive Christian community on New Zealand’s West Coast, as they prepare for marriage, parenthood and life at Gloriavale. Gloriavale aired during the 8.30pm timeslot on TV2, with Read more
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Roger Sutton appointed Anglican trustee on Christchurch Church Property Trust
Friday, July 29th, 2016Former Canterbury Earthquake Recovery chief executive Roger Sutton has a new role as an Anglican church trustee. He has been appointed one of eight trustees on the Anglican Diocese of Christchurch Church Property Trust (CPT). Sutton (above) resigned from his role at Cera in November, 2014, after a senior staff member laid a sexual harassment Read more
Auckland Diocese’s general manager steps down
Friday, July 29th, 2016After 15 years as general manager of New Zealand’s largest Catholic diocese, Auckland, Kerry Coleman has decided that the time has come for him to move on to pursue other interests and opportunities. Educated at Auckland’s Sacred Heart College and Auckland University, Mr Coleman came to Auckland diocese from a background and experience in property. After beginning his career in rural valuation and farm Read more
Cardinal Dew’s Mountain of Mercy
Tuesday, July 26th, 2016
In what Cardinal John Dew called “an act of mercy” dozens of new pairs of shoes, vouchers and socks were piled on Wellington’s Sacred Heart Cathedral steps on Sunday. “We have asked people to ‘be an act of mercy’ and they have responded with great generosity for those who can’t afford to put shoes and Read more
Hato Pāora student wins SINGout4JUSTICE prize
Tuesday, July 26th, 2016
Standing out from a record number of entries, a Hato Pāora College student’s song Now or Never has won the senior category in the annual SINGout4JUSTICE song writing competition. Responding to the theme ‘The Time is Now!’ that was set by competition organisers Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand, the Year 12 student highlighted the importance of Read more
Marist Family around the world celebrates 200 years
Tuesday, July 26th, 2016
The Marist Family throughout the world has just celebrated the 200th Anniversary of the Fourvière Pledge. In Lyon more than 500 young people from 46 countries gathered for a week of activities. The celebration culminated in a Eucharist celebrated in Chapel of Our Lady of Fourviere on the 23rd July It was on this day Read more
Dunedin’s Mercy Hospital day-stay facility opened
Tuesday, July 26th, 2016Staff, patients and members of the Roman Catholic community celebrated the 80th anniversary of Dunedin’s Mercy Hospital, and the opening of a new $7.5million facility on Saturday. Mercy Hospital chief executive Richard Whitney said the new Manaaki by Mercy day-stay facility would provide 1400 endoscopy and opthalmology procedures in the next year. The facility included Read more
Nearly half of NZ Pacific young people living in poverty
Tuesday, July 26th, 2016Researchers have found nearly half of Pacific secondary school students in New Zealand are living in poverty. They used data from a study of 8500 students done in 2012 and found major ethnic inequalities among the number of young people found to be living in poverty. Overall one in five young people were found to Read more
Arise conference attracts thousands of Christians to Wellington
Tuesday, July 26th, 2016Up to 7000 worshippers will make the pilgrimage to Wellington this weekend to celebrate the word of God. They will be attending the annual conference of Arise, a pentecostal church and registered charity that receives millions of dollars in donations from its followers every year. When Stuff attended on Friday, the event appeared more like Read more
Positives and negatives with Pokémon Go Bishop Dunn says
Friday, July 22nd, 2016
Pokémon Go is taking the world by storm, with about four million downloads of the new virtual reality game downloaded a day. In common with most inventions, there are positive and negatives about the location-based augmented reality mobile game. When asked by CathNews for his opinion on the game, Auckland’s Bishop Patrick Dunn said “Like Read more