Forgivness - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Wed, 02 Oct 2019 09:01:43 +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 Forgivness - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Church tells thief "It's hot where you're going" https://cathnews.co.nz/2019/10/03/church-tells-thief-he-is-going-to-hell/ Thu, 03 Oct 2019 07:20:44 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=121678 A thief stole a brand new air conditioning unit from the grounds of the Akron Alliance Fellowship Church in Ohio The church has posted this message on it welcome sign: "Whoever stole our A C Unit: Keep it. It's hot where (you're) going." Read more

Church tells thief "It's hot where you're going"... Read more]]> A thief stole a brand new air conditioning unit from the grounds of the Akron Alliance Fellowship Church in Ohio

The church has posted this message on it welcome sign: "Whoever stole our A C Unit: Keep it. It's hot where (you're) going." Read more

Church tells thief "It's hot where you're going"]]> 121678 Teina Pora's baptism changed him for good. https://cathnews.co.nz/2015/05/26/teina-poras-was-baptism-changed-him-for-good/ Mon, 25 May 2015 19:02:58 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=71808

Everything changed for Teina Pora after he was baptised by a fellow inmate using water from a prison laundry tub 11 years ago. He says he forgives the police who charged him with the 1992 rape and murder of Susan Burdett. Pora was convicted twice for this offence and spent 21 years in jail. In Read more

Teina Pora's baptism changed him for good.... Read more]]> Everything changed for Teina Pora after he was baptised by a fellow inmate using water from a prison laundry tub 11 years ago.

He says he forgives the police who charged him with the 1992 rape and murder of Susan Burdett.

Pora was convicted twice for this offence and spent 21 years in jail.

In March the Privy Council quashed his convictions and recommended he not be put on trial again.

After his baptism he taught himself to read using a pocket bible. "I'm a different person now. Humble. In the past I'd have been, yeah, aggressive."

He says he has lost his anger and his attitude. "I don't have anything towards anyone anymore."

Pora said for the first two years he marked time, keeping note of each passing day. "And you just get sick of it. It was slowing down everything."

Years passed between visitors.

"As the years went on I just started to realise no one cared, so I might as well live the lifestyle of being in prison, the art and craft of being in there."

Five years ago Pora's case was taken up by a former detective Tim McKinnel.

His work led to Pora's convictions being quashed.

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