Dunedin woman Stephanie Sommers first saw the picture of the little church, apparently somewhere near Ahipara, more than 20 years ago. Since then she has dreamed of finding it – she still does – and is now hoping that a Northland Age reader will be able to tell her where it is. It all began Read more
Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen has been presented with a prestigious peace award at the alma mater of Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. The Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel at Morehouse College in Atlanta honoured Gülen with its 2015 Gandhi King Ikeda Peace Award. The award was made in recognition of Gülen’s “life-long dedication to Read more
An authority on demonic possession has warned that the number of beautiful vampires in TV series and films is leading young people to dabble in the occult. Professor Giuseppe Ferrari said this to a Vatican-backed exorcism course in Rome recently. The professor heads an Italian occult watchdog, The Group on Research and Socio-Religious Information. Series Read more
A campaign has been launched for the canonisation of the priest who stayed on board the Titanic as it sank in order to pray with his fellow passengers. According to survivors’ testimonies, Fr Thomas Byles twice refused a place on a lifeboat. Rather, he stayed on the ship to pray with the passengers who were Read more
The 22nd Eucharistic Convention held in Auckland has featured strong Jewish themes. Guest speakers included Jewish born American Roy Schoeman whose parents survived the Holocaust. Initially, Holocaust survivor Inge Auerbacher was to speak this year, but due to an unforeseen event she couldn’t’ make it. Auckland residents Bob and Freda Narev accepted the invitation to Read more
A US mega church whose leader’s preaching appears regularly on New Zealand television claims Pokemon was designed to “turn” youths gay. Creflo Dollar’s preaching is on TV2 in New Zealand early every weekday morning. Televangelist Pastor Creflo Dollar says the close relationship between Ash and Brock was a sign of the cartoon’s “gay agenda”. He Read more
Turkey has recalled its envoy to the Vatican after Pope Francis described the mass killing of Armenians under Ottoman rule in World War One as “genocide”. Turkey has reacted with anger to the comment made by the Pope at a service in the Armenian Catholic Rite in Rome on Sunday. Pope Francis said that humanity Read more
The number of potential ordinands in the United States this year is up by 25 per cent from 2014. According to US Conference of Catholic Bishops figures, there are 595 men in the “class of 2015”, up from 477 in 2014 and 497 in 2013. The 2015 class of men to be ordained to the Read more
Two separate, highly embarrassing Church scandals have generated lurid coverage in the Italian press. A north Italian priest has been removed from office after allegations he looked for gay lovers on the Internet and had been involved in gay orgies. The priest admitted online to sexual relationships with other religious figures – as well as Read more
A scheme by one of New Zealand’s most celebrated architects to rebuild the earthquake-damaged Christ Church Cathedral appears to have the backing of Canterbury Anglicans. Architect Miles Warren believes his scheme will get the go ahead and it appears to have been embraced by Anglicans, with 95 per cent of the 74 feedback emails received Read more