A Samoan choir will be singing at Mass in a village in New Zealand this Sunday. The parish of St Francis Xavier in Marton will be hosting a choir from the village of Vaiusu near Apia. Organiser Faio Iern, who conducts the choir at St Francis Xavier in Marton, said the choir from Vaiusu would also Read more
Fundraising by New Plymouth’s Francis Douglas Memorial College students has raised $18,000, for Starlit HOPE. That exceeded the target they had set themselves by $12,000. Starlit HOPE was started by 13 year old Gabby Devine who died in May from bone cancer. It is a charity designed to give cheer to children in hospital and Read more
They’re jumping for joy, and hopefully some dollars too, at St Joseph’s School Stratford this month. “We have organised a jump rope day for the whole school,” explains Raine Peterson-Semenoff. Raine and the rest of his classmates in Room 8 at the school, have been working hard planning a fun filled “Jump Rope for Heart”: Read more
Wainuiomata barista Hayden “Professor Scrape” Eising calendar’s cover boy on a fund raising calendar. He was posing in a headscarf and workshirt as the iconic World War Two pin-up Rosie the Riveter outside Wellington’s St Gerard’s monastery when a priest came out to watch the photoshoot. “The priest came out from the church and stood Read more
A new 70-metre long church in Lausikula on the southern tip of Wallis was consecrated by Bishop Ghislain de Rasilly last month. It is hoped that the church will help the territory become a pilgrimage site. The relics of St Peter Chanel, who is the patron saint of Oceania, are preserved on the neighbouring island Read more
Last Friday four Catholic colleges in Wellington held a fund raising concert to raise funds for Chanel College in Samoa. The concert featured performances from St Catherine’s, St Mary’s, St Patrick’s Kilbirnie and St Patrick’s Silverstream. The rector of Chanel College, Fr Mika Tuimavave, came to Wellington to attend the concert. The Concert was part Read more
Stuart Kettell raises money for the Macmillan Cancer Support, a group that offers patients help with every aspect of their lives after diagnosis. He has now completed his eighth charity fundraising event by climbing up Wales’ highest mountain, Mount Snowdon, all 3,560 feet of it , on his hands and knees while pushing a brussel sprout with his Read more
Pacific Island churches in New Zealand say members of some congregations have gone into debt because of pressure to donate to churches. The parishioners have fallen victim to loan sharks who promise easy borrowing but extremely high interest rates. The Reverend Tavake Tupou, who heads an independent Tongan Methodist congregation in Auckland, told Radio Australia’s Read more