Common thinking on the contentious Treaty Principles Bill has healed a decades-long rift between the Anglican Church in Wellington and Ngāti Toa Rangatira. The Church and iwi have joined forces to “unequivocally” oppose the Bill which they say reinterprets the 184-year old Te Tiriti o Waitangi – the Treaty of Waitangi. The Bill, which sets Read more
Recently in Christchurch, a 40m banner inscribed with 10,001 names of Palestinian children killed in Gaza formed a visual expression of Christian and community solidarity and a call for justice in peace. From pre-schoolers to pensioners, about 75 people joined for portions of a 36km walk on Saturday 9 March. The distance symbolically mirrors the Read more
A Baptist pastor who is about to become Wellington’s new Dean of the Anglican church comes with a chequered past, including convictions for fraud and burglary of a parishioner’s house – all while he was a Bay of Plenty pastor. But the church says Lloyd (known as Digby) Wilkinson is an “ideal” candidate who has Read more