Kiwibank’s initial plans to blacklist the adult entertainment industry ran into opposition from the New Zealand Prostitutes’ Collective, but the bank is being urged to stick to its guns by Wahine Toa Rising – a new trans-Tasman group set up by ex-sex workers. Read more
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Baptist Church has its own bank
Tuesday, October 1st, 2013
An ATM has just been installed in the Windsor Park Baptist church in Auckland, New Zealand. The logo on the machine is “Baptist Savings“, a small but significant sign that a financial force is rising that could suck more business out of the big four banks. Baptist Savings has seen its deposits grow in the Read more
Fiji – Methodist church asks for permission to meet
Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
About 800 representatives of the Methodist Church are awaiting the outcome of its application for a permit to meet in August. Church acting general secretary Reverend Tevita Nawadra said the annual meeting which was disallowed in the past four years was crucial to the operations of the church. “We’re still awaiting the decision by the Read more
Vatican bishop calls for sustainable energy
Friday, November 18th, 2011Bishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, Chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, yesterday addressed representatives of Caritas Internationalis on the economic crisis facing much of the world.
During his speech he called for greater care for the environment, the development of sustainable and a more just economic system. The Tobin/Robin Hood tax made “economic common sense” he said.
Sorondo told Caritas delegates from around the world that finance and the economy can benefit society if they are tailored towards the common good, but financial institutions can be destructive if unregulated.
“Economics must not be exclusive,” he said. The bishop called for economics to be seen in the context of other issues such as sustainable energy, the environment, education and social issues such as drug use and prostitution rather than just GDP.
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Archbishop: Banks need to wake up to moral responsibility
Wednesday, March 9th, 2011
Archbishop Vincent Nichols of Westminster has told the financial sector to wake up from their moral sleep. Speaking at the London School of Economics he said that while some were seeking a change of culture, as a group the financial sector had failed to reform itself. “Until a different culture has taken hold, I cannot Read more