Charles Drennan, the bishop of Palmerston North has announced clergy appointments for 2018 Continue reading
Charles Drennan, the bishop of Palmerston North has announced clergy appointments for 2018 Continue reading
Creating Christ’s tomb virtual exhibition was “one of the most profound assignments you could ask for,” says J.J. Kelley, senior producer at National Geographic Explorer. The National Geographic team set up cameras inside the shrine to capture the moment when the slabs were lifted for renovation work last year. They will screen a documentary on Read more
A church minister from Gisborne is one of two men to be fined more than $10,000 after pleading guilty to several crimes involving crayfish. The Gisborne Herald has reported the pastor has lost his job and would return to Auckland in January. Read More
Vatican-China relations will take a new direction using art as a bridge between the two cultures. The Vatican Museums have partnered with a Chinese cultural institute in hopes of building stronger ties with the country through art. Read more
An English judge has freed a chemist charged with murdering his 85-year-old father who wished to die. The judge said, “Your acts of assistance were acts of pure compassion and mercy.” Read more
A former Catholic priest has been extradited from New Zealand to Sydney and charged with historic child sex offences. Detectives travelled to New Zealand on Wednesday to bring the 58-year-old man back to Mascot Police Station where he was charged with sexual and indecent assaults in the late 1980s against seven teenage boys aged between Read more
Retired Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun of Hong Kong says the Holy See’s diplomacy seeks a compromise at all costs with the Chinese government, risking “to sell out the faithful Church”. Zen’s comments were made during Mass in his homily, where he recalled Fr. Wei Heping (Yu Heping), who died two years ago in mysterious and Read more
A Wellington op shop is taking the classic “reduce, reuse and recycle” message one step further in an effort to bring its textile waste down to zero. Caroline O’Reilly, the new textile recycling coordinator at St Vincent de Paul in Kilbirnie, is helping reduce the amount of waste the store sends to landfill by repurposing Read more
A mosque in the c has been renamed “Mary, Mother of Jesus”. The new name was ordered by Sheikh Mohammad bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, Abu Dhabi crown prince and deputy supreme commander of the United Arab Emirate armed forces. He ordered the mosque be renamed to “consolidate bonds of humanity between followers of different religions.” Read Read more
Constructed as a convent in the 1950s and later home to a legal practice – a landmark Papakura building is to go under the hammer as part of Bayleys’ final Total Property auction for 2017. The 296sq m, two-level building, on a large (1012sq m) site at 53 Wood St is for sale with vacant Read more