Hukarere and Te Aute Colleges can look forward to a more secure future. New funding through the St John’s College Trust Board has enabled the Te Aute Trust Board to repay $9.2 million of debt to the Bank of New Zealand. Te Aute’s chair, Stephen Jacobi, said repayment of the debt, incurred on the Trust’s Read more
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St Patrick’s Silverstream celebrates 60-year Samoa connection
Friday, June 13th, 2014
“It’s fitting that a school that has been teaching Samoan students for more than 60-years will be hosting one of Wellington’s key Samoan Language Week events,” said Dame Susan Devoy, New Zealand’s Race Relations Commissioner. She was speaking at St Patrick’s College Silverstream at Samoan Language Week launch event. A photograph unearthed ahead of the occasion Read more
School protests 4th attempt to build petrol station next door
Friday, June 13th, 2014
Supporters of St Mark’s school Pakuranga are fighting a fourth attempt to build a petrol station next to the school. They have already held one protest on Pakuranga Road and a second is planned for today. “People are important, stop BP,” hundreds of schoolchildren and adults chanted last Friday as they waved placards at traffic Read more
Seminary Rector Monsignor Peter Jeffrey farewelled
Friday, June 13th, 2014
Monsignor Peter Jeffrey will be leaving his role as Rector of the Holy Cross Seminary in Auckland New Zealand a little earlier than expected for health reasons. He was farewelled at the seminary this week. “I’m sad to be leaving at this stage in the year but owing to health reasons I feel that it’s best Read more
Last service for Auckland’s Holy Trinity Cathedral
Tuesday, June 10th, 2014This weekend marks a significant chapter in the vision to complete Auckland’s Holy Trinity Cathedral. Final services will be held in the Cathedral this Sunday before it is closed for three months to allow construction work to begin. During the closure, services will take place in the adjacent St Mary’s-in-Holy-Trinity. Dean of the Cathedral, the Read more
Assyrian church helps small community
Tuesday, June 10th, 2014A new church is helping forge cultural roots for a small community. The Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East opened its doors in Manurewa. Father Toma K Toma, who came to New Zealand from Iran in 1992, acknowledges the church has come a long way from its early beginnings and is happy to Read more
New painting of Suzanne Aubert
Tuesday, June 10th, 2014
An iconic painting of a youthful Suzanne Aubert was unveiled last month at a gathering of more than 80 Bishops of Oceania at the Home of Compassion in Island Bay, Wellington. ‘This painting is a wonderful depiction of the youthful Suzanne Aubert as she would have been at the height of her ministry,’ says congregational Read more
CHCH diocese earthquake repair assessment 75% completed
Tuesday, June 10th, 2014
The process for developing concepts for repair / strengthening of churches in the diocese of Christchurch, New Zealand, is approximately 75% completed. Since the earthquakes in in 2010 and 2011, the Diocese has been working with engineering consultants OPUS in assessing and learning to understand the impact that the earthquakes have had on diocesan property. Read more
Greens want to decriminalise abortion
Tuesday, June 10th, 2014
The Green Party supports the decriminalisation of abortion. Having an abortion in New Zealand is still a crime under the Crimes Act, unless a pregnant woman faces a danger to her life, physical or mental health. The Greens wants to make abortion freely available to women up to 20 weeks pregnant. Read Green Party Press Read more
Young Catholics and Mormons to meet political leaders
Friday, June 6th, 2014
Around forty young adult Catholics and Mormons (the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) from around the country will visit some of New Zealand’s political leaders at Parliament later this month. They will meet with Prime Minister John Key and a number of Members of Parliament on 25 June. The visit is being jointly Read more