New Zealand authorities are investigating a prominent Samoan church with links to a cryptocurrency labelled as a fraudulent pyramid scheme. The Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) probe into the Samoan Independent Seventh Day Adventist Church (SISDAC) – which has branches in New Zealand, Australia and Samoa – comes amid a seperate investigation by Samoa’s Central Read more
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For My Father’s Kingdom: This powerful, personal film will make you cry 
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Thursday, June 13th, 2019
At the centre of My Father’s Kingdom, it is Vea Mafile’o’s father, Saia Mafile’o, a South Auckland pensioner with a charismatic personality and deep ties to the church. Vea turns the camera on her family, and around on herself, to focus on struggling relationships, burning resentments, generational divides and cultural clashes that stretch back decades. Read more
Samoan Govt seizes Church ministers’ assets Comments 0
Thursday, October 11th, 2018
The Samoan government has begun to seize money from the accounts of church ministers who have failed to submit a monthly tax return as required by recently enacted legislation. The Minister for Revenue, Tialavea Tionisio Hunt, said his ministry estimated more than 250 ministers of the church owed $US2500 each in unpaid tax for the first Read more
Backlash after tap and go collection plate launched Comments 0
Monday, October 1st, 2018
St. Mary’s Cathedral in Australia is taking heat for implementing a tap and go collection plate. The Roman Catholic cathedral in Sydney announced the moved on its Facebook page, but the outcry was so swift that the post was deleted soon after. Read more Related Posts:Pay-wave collection plate in Paris churchSpiritual oasis: Las Vegas shrine Read more
Government funding for churches in Timor-Leste under review Comments 0
Monday, October 1st, 2018
In Timor Leste, where the population is 90% Catholic, the government makes a significant financial contribution to the Catholic church. The way in which the funding is carried out is now under review. The government will not comment on how the funding is to be allocated this year and it could be facing a fight with Read more
Catholic church in Samoa accepts the new tax laws Comments 0
Thursday, June 14th, 2018
The Catholic Church and the Methodist Church in Samoa have said that they accept a new law requiring their ministers to pay tax. But at a recent general assembly, the leaders of the Congregational Christian Church (CCCS) said they would ignore the law. In a speech in parliament, the prime minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi praised the Read more
Church puts funds raised for Putaruru family in trust for Children Comments 0
Monday, June 11th, 2018
A church holding funds for a Putaruru family who suffered from severe poisoning last year has released only part of the $100,000 raised. This story has been updated: Read The St Thomas Marthoma Church of New Zealand has released $42,520 of the $102,764 donated earlier this year after three members of the Kochummen family became Read more
Samoan Church paying $1.7 million a year interest on loan Comments 0
Thursday, May 24th, 2018
The Congregational Christian Church of Samoa (CCCS) is making an annual payment of $1.7 million to the Samoa National Provident Fund (SNPF) on a $15.11 million loan. The loan from the was taken out to assist with the building of their $17.39 million Jubilee Church and for and other developments. The Church’s Komiti o Feau Eseese Read more
Church member fined for illegally storing pork for fundraiser Comments 0
Monday, May 14th, 2018
Aso Lino Mika, 51, felt under pressure from her Samoan church in Christchurch to help store the pork at her Stanmore Rd dairy. Read more Related Posts:Eat pork but be penitent says Indonesian archbishopPastor gets into trouble over crayfishNew survey – Christchurch ‘evenly…Growing opposition to Chinese businesses in Samoa
Millionaire pastor’s church – former member calls for more transparency Comments 0
Monday, December 11th, 2017
A Maserati-driving pastor who owns $4 million of property needs to be more open and transparent about his church’s finances, former members say. Murray Watkinson, a former carpet layer who sold his carpet business in Wellington in 1975 after “encountering God in a supernatural way”, began the Celebration Centre church in 1990 in Aranui with Read more
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