Collections - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 20 Aug 2015 19:26:48 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Collections - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 No more money in the plate; pass the touch pad https://cathnews.co.nz/2015/08/21/no-more-money-in-the-plate-pass-the-touch-pad/ Thu, 20 Aug 2015 19:20:00 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=75475 In the diocese of El Paso, in the United States, two parishes have entered the digital age by providing a touch pad on a stand, called a kiosk, for people to make credit-card donations. "Passing the basket and taking those gifts to the altar is a very important part of the Mass," said Janine Young, Read more

No more money in the plate; pass the touch pad... Read more]]> In the diocese of El Paso, in the United States, two parishes have entered the digital age by providing a touch pad on a stand, called a kiosk, for people to make credit-card donations.

"Passing the basket and taking those gifts to the altar is a very important part of the Mass," said Janine Young, chief executive officer of the Foundation for the Diocese of El Paso.

"And we will have cards that say 'I gave at the kiosk.' Read more

No more money in the plate; pass the touch pad]]> 75475 Charity muggers' offered free flights https://cathnews.co.nz/2014/07/08/charity-muggers-offered-free-flights/ Mon, 07 Jul 2014 19:10:39 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=60189 Fundraising firms recruiting foreigners to tout for donations on our streets and want job put on Immigration NZ's skills-shortage list. Many of those annoying people hustling passers-by in city streets for charity donations are paid professionals from overseas - and more could be on the way. Read more

Charity muggers' offered free flights... Read more]]> Fundraising firms recruiting foreigners to tout for donations on our streets and want job put on Immigration NZ's skills-shortage list.

Many of those annoying people hustling passers-by in city streets for charity donations are paid professionals from overseas - and more could be on the way. Read more

Charity muggers' offered free flights]]> 60189 Very rude church collectors less than charitable insult https://cathnews.co.nz/2012/04/19/cheap-bitch-church-collectors-less-than-charitable-insult/ Thu, 19 Apr 2012 02:30:33 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=23404 Auckland Council has issued a warning to church collectors from the Voice of Christ Full Gospel Church after complaints about the tactics they were using at traffic junctions. The collectors apparently weaved through traffic, banging on car windows to ask for money. After a Herald report yesterday on the group's "window-cleaner-style methods" of seeking cash at Greenlane, Read more

Very rude church collectors less than charitable insult... Read more]]> Auckland Council has issued a warning to church collectors from the Voice of Christ Full Gospel Church after complaints about the tactics they were using at traffic junctions.

The collectors apparently weaved through traffic, banging on car windows to ask for money.

After a Herald report yesterday on the group's "window-cleaner-style methods" of seeking cash at Greenlane, dozens of readers said they had encountered the collectors elsewhere - Queen St, St Lukes, Mission Bay, Parnell and Newmarket. Continue reading

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