Staff, 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
Pro-life doctors who conscientiously object to abortion are denied career choices. Doctors who refuse to take part in abortions are suffering increasingly from harassment and discrimination at work, the British Medical Association (BMA) has told MPs. Healthcare professionals are complaining to the union that they are facing pressure to take part in abortions and confronted Read more
Researchers 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
A teenage gunman killed nine people in a shooting rampage at a busy shopping district in Munich, Germany, before police found his body on a nearby street, authorities said. Although it was thought at first the attacker may have been a member of an anti-religious terrorist group, this was not the case. The 18-year-old stormed Read more
Up 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
A German archdiocese is preparing to open the cause of Romano Guardini, one of the most influential theologians of the 20th century. Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich and Freising archdiocese is expected to formally open the cause before the end of the year. According to German media reports, the archdiocese has appointed a postulator for Read more
A Catholic priest has reminded the Republican Party national convention in the United States of the parable of the Good Samaritan. Msgr Kieran Harrington delivered the invocation on the opening night of the convention in Cleveland on July 18. The prayer lasted three minutes. The prayer included a request for blessings and inspiration for the Read more
Gay and transgender Christians are to set up an unofficial ministry for World Youth Day in Poland later this month. Leaders of the Warsaw-based “Faith and Rainbow” LGBT organisation say they want to minister to the thousands of gay, lesbian and transgender people attending the event. They will do this through an “LGBT Pilgrim’s Haven” Read more
There are more than 27,000 registered charities in New Zealand which are overseen by Charities Services and the Charities Registration Board. The Charities Board decides whether or not an organisation is qualified to be registered as a charity on the basis of whether it is established and maintained exclusively for “charitable purposes”. Charitable purposes includes Read more
A Muslim woman’s employment hopes were dashed when a prospective manager told her not to bother applying for a jewellery store job because of her headscarf. The second such incident within nine months at a store run by James Pascoe Group has led to its head office issuing a stern warning to staff that discrimination, Read more