Parliament’s Speaker David Carter has announced that the traditional prayer he uses to open daily sittings of Parliament will remain as is, with its Christian references. He undertook a very low-key consultation process with MPs and offered an alternative that would remove religious references to “Almight God” and “Jesus Christ our Lord” from the English Read more
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St Bede’s tops NZ “Ivy League” list
Tuesday, February 5th, 2013
St Bede’s College, a Catholic boys school in Christchurch New Zealand, has been placed at the top of an unofficial New Zealand “Ivy League” list. The list is drawn up as a result of a survey carried out by a New Zealand Sunday newspaper. The Sunday Star-Times bases its list on the schools attended by Read more