A television debate on the future of Christchurch Cathedral will take place next week without anyone from the church agreeing to appear. The debate was called by Aaron Keown, a Christchurch city councillor who wants the public to hear all the facts before the symbol of Christchurch city was demolished and lost forever. The church Read more
La cathédrale anglicane de Christchurch, gravement ébranlée par le séisme qui avait frappé la ville le 22 février 2011, sera finalement déconstruite, en dépit des comités de soutien qui avaient lutté contre cette décision. La sentence est tombée par une annonce de Victoria Matthews, qui dirige l’évêché et qui a tenu à préciser que cette Read more
Christchurch’s Cathedral Square could be transformed into an artificial beach with large movie screens.
Bishop of Christchurch Victoria Matthews said the proposal could help make the earthquake-damaged Square “welcoming and engaging” again.
She spoke about the idea during the visit of the Australian governor-general to Christchurch.
“One conversation that’s just beginning is to do a Re:Start here [in the Square] and having a giant movie screen, [and] artificial beach and trying to bring people into a place that has actually caused fear to make it welcoming and engaging again,” Matthews said.
The project would be similar to City Mall’s Re:Start shopping area, she said.
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Repair of the Blessed Sacrament Cathedral now put at $100 million “We are really looking at three options – whether to demolish the existing building, to retain what we can of the basilica and rebuild to its former glory, or, in the short-term, whether or not to mothball the building until we have a clearer Read more
It is hoped that the pupils under canvas in five Christchurch primary schools will soon be able to return to their classrooms. On 17 February blocks were closed at St Mary’s School and Our Lady of Assumption School Hoon Hay. Some days later pupils at schools St Bernadette’s, Hornby, Christ the King, Burnside and St Peter’s, Read more
The Catholic Bishop of Christchurch , Barry Jones, says a comparison of this year’s annual survey of the numbers of adults and children coming to Sunday Mass with the surveys of the last few years seems to show that the earthquakes have had no effect on the number of persons coming to Sunday Mass He Read more
Wednesday 22 February marked one year since the earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand. Because it was Ash Wednesday, as well as joining a civic earthquake memorial service many Catholics also attended their own churches, or joined with other denominations to begin Lent by remembering and praying for those who died, were injured or have suffered as a result of Read more
The earthquake of February 22 will still feel raw to most of us come Wednesday when we mark the first anniversary of that unforgettable day. We will all pause to commemorate the dead and remember the bereaved and the injured and all that has been lost. Then we will carry on as we know we Read more
Wednesday 22 February marks the first anniversary of the second, and the most devastating Christchurch earthquake in which the Catholic and the Anglican cathedrals were severely damaged. The future of the Christchurch cathedrals is unclear and those making the decisions are still awaiting further information from the experts assessing the damage and calculating the cost Read more
Children in two Christchurch Catholic schools are being taught in marquees set up as clasrooms. Five tents have been at Our Lady of Assumption in Hoon Hay to temporarily replace the block that housed five of the school’s 12 classrooms. The school has a roll of 260. Four have been installed at St Mary’s, in Read more