Broadcasting great Kevin Black was farewelled at a service in Auckland on Monday. Black ‘s coffin was carried into St Patrick’s Cathedral to the rock song Welcome to the Boomtown for his funeral service in Auckland on Monday afternoon. Priests led the procession to the ’80s David & David song followed by family and friends Read more
CHURCH leaders are being encouraged to motivate their respective congregations to take care of their personal wellness. This comes in light of the Fiji Wellness Summit 2013 which took place over Thursday and Friday at the Fiji National University (FNU) in Suva. Speaking to this newspaper yesterday was the Ministry of Health’s Ravinesh Chetty, who Read more
Two weeks after an official report revealed that the Irish government was deeply involved in the incarceration of women in the Magdalene laundries, Prime Minister Enda Kenny has made an emotional state apology. “By any standards it was a cruel, pitiless Ireland, distinctly lacking in a quality of mercy,” Kenny said, as dozens of former Read more
Tiny Bibles flown to the moon and back are at the centre of a dispute between Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services and an Oklahoma Christian author who is trying to sell one at auction. The microfilm King James version Bibles are the size of a postage stamp. They were produced by a group Read more
The Australian doctor known as Dr Death is encouraging people to support a Labour MP’s bill that would legalise euthanasia. Philip Nitschke gave a public speech in Wellington today, followed by a private workshop for members of his Exit group on how to use a new Nitrogen system as a method of suicide. Continue Reading
The Fiji Times Limited has been ordered to pay a fine of $300,000 and court costs of $2000 within 28 days. This after the High Court in Suva convicted the company of contempt of court. In his judgment handed down this afternoon, judge Justice William Calanchini also convicted the newspaper’s editor-in-chief, Fred Wesley, of contempt and sentenced Read more
The former St Joseph’s church and hall in Douglas St look likely to go on the market. The parish was still to formally apply for the bishop’s approval to sell, according to Catholic Diocese financial administrator Paddy Beban. Sunday mass has not been celebrated at the Douglas St church since mid-2009. Continue reading
The Greek Orthodox Church in Turkey is strongly opposing plans to reconvert Istanbul’s Hagia Sofia basilica into a mosque. ”We want Santa Sofia to remain a museum. It was a Christian church for over 1000 years,” Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople has said. ”If it is to be reconsecrated, then it should go back Read more
Alligator flesh is permissible to eat on meatless Fridays, the archbishop of New Orleans has assured a conscientious parishioner, because it is “considered in the fish family”. The website of the national bishops’ conference in the United States — where Catholics are required to abstain from meat on the Fridays of Lent — agrees. The Read more
Restoring three large stained-glass windows from an earthquake-destroyed church is proof that “if something can be picked up it can be put back together”. Graham Stewart has rescued glass from shattered windows in many Canterbury churches but he has never restored one before now. It is a centrepiece of the Quake City exhibition that opened Read more