A Wairarapa man who doesn’t know how he caught coronavirus says he has been bullied by his community. The man, who lives in the Wairarapa, said while most of the community had been supportive, he has also been the target of harassment. Read more Related Posts:Person who lives in pope’s Vatican residence tests…In Italy, at Read more
Posts Tagged ‘Bullying’
Bullies are scared cowards says Pope 
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Thursday, November 28th, 2019
Pope Francis, visiting Japan, denounced an “epidemic” of bullying that torments young people in Japan but also around the world. “We must all unite against this culture of bullying and learn to say ‘Enough!’ “It is an epidemic, and together you can find the best medicine to treat it.” “Bullies are afraid, and they cover Read more
Ombudsman critical of the way college handled bullying complaint Comments 0
Monday, September 2nd, 2019
The Chief Ombudsman has criticised Sacred Heart College in Auckland over the way it dealt with a bullying complaint. Peter Boshier said the school had “failed to ensure the student was safe.” He called the Board of Trustees’ response to the complaint Siobhan Harvey made about the bullying of her son “unreasonable”. Boshier recommended the Read more
Pope tackles bullying Comments 0
Monday, June 24th, 2019
Pope Francis highlighted the problem of bullying in a recent message to young people. Francis said bullying is an issue that concerns him. He made the comments to participants in the online conference #StopcyberbullyingDay. Francis called on participants to find their own identity but not at the expense of others. “An issue that concerns me Read more
MP gets cross party support and a security escort Comments 0
Thursday, May 23rd, 2019
Green MP Golriz Ghahraman is being accompanied by a security escort at all times following a series of death threats. The MP has seen a significant escalation in threats of violence following comments by ACT MP David Seymour, a source told Stuff. Ghahraman is an Iranian-Kiwi refugee, lucky to escape war and persecution as a Read more
Schoolyard bullies in the sacristy Comments 0
Thursday, March 28th, 2019
Half a century ago, the bishops’ conference of the United States commissioned an interdisciplinary study of the priesthood in that country. Key parts of it were led by two priests who at the time were celebrities in the Catholic community, Andrew Greeley the sociologist and Eugene Kennedy the psychologist. (Disclosure: as a seminarian I was Read more
Bullied, sexually abused kids more likely to smoke, drink Comments 0
Monday, March 4th, 2019
A new study has found children who were bullied and sexually abused are more likely to smoke and drink alcohol excessively as adults. The findings were published recently in BMC Public Health. Few studies have explored this phenomenon in Australia, according to Dr David Alejandro González-Chica, senior lecturer and research supervisor at the University of Read more
Promise Jesus and me not to bully anyone, Pope asked teens Comments 0
Thursday, March 30th, 2017
Promise Jesus and me not to bully anyone, Pope Francis asked 45,000 teens when he met them in Milan last Saturday. He also told their teachers to be aware of the bullying problem. “I ask you, in silence: In your schools, in your neighborhoods, is there someone that you mock? That you make fun of Read more
UK Catholic teen strung up on cross by co-worker bullies Comments 0
Friday, June 17th, 2016
A Catholic teenager in Britain was tied to a wooden cross and hung from a wall by work colleagues, a court has heard. Four men are on trial at York Crown Court accused of religiously aggravated assaults. All four deny the charges and three claimed the incidents were part of general workplace banter. The mock Read more
Aussie Catholic education office leader sacked for bullying Comments 0
Friday, November 27th, 2015
An official at a Catholic Education Office in an Australian diocese, who was compared to Margaret Thatcher, was sacked for bullying her co-workers. The former employee relations team leader the Catholic Education Office at Parramatta diocese took her former employer to federal court for unfair dismissal. She alleged she was sexually harassed and complained of Read more
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