Lanuage - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Mon, 03 Aug 2020 01:26:36 +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 Lanuage - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Mx pronouns on voting enrolment forms for first time https://cathnews.co.nz/2020/08/03/mx-pronouns-voting-enrolment-forms/ Mon, 03 Aug 2020 07:54:31 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=129282 Rainbow groups are celebrating "Mx" pronoun titles being included on voting enrolment forms for the first time. A spokesperson for the Electoral Commission said that enrolment forms - where eligible voting New Zealanders can enrol or update their details on the electoral roll - were updated last year. Continue reading

Mx pronouns on voting enrolment forms for first time... Read more]]> Rainbow groups are celebrating "Mx" pronoun titles being included on voting enrolment forms for the first time.

A spokesperson for the Electoral Commission said that enrolment forms - where eligible voting New Zealanders can enrol or update their details on the electoral roll - were updated last year. Continue reading

Mx pronouns on voting enrolment forms for first time]]> 129282 Interfaith Council starting courses on language and diversity https://cathnews.co.nz/2020/02/10/courses-language-and-diversity/ Mon, 10 Feb 2020 06:54:09 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=124058 Waikato based community organisation Earth Diverse and Waikato Interfaith Council are starting language and diversity classes in the city from the second week of February. The schedule of Term 1 of the classes was announced earlier in January that offers several regional, and national language classes along with sessions on different world religions and their Read more

Interfaith Council starting courses on language and diversity... Read more]]> Waikato based community organisation Earth Diverse and Waikato Interfaith Council are starting language and diversity classes in the city from the second week of February.

The schedule of Term 1 of the classes was announced earlier in January that offers several regional, and national language classes along with sessions on different world religions and their contribution towards the diversity people live in. Read more

Interfaith Council starting courses on language and diversity]]> 124058 Methodist ministers to learn Indo-Fijian language https://cathnews.co.nz/2018/09/03/methodist-indo-fijian-language/ Mon, 03 Sep 2018 08:03:14 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=111275 indo-fijian

The Methodist church in Fiji will teach its ministers to speak the Indo-Fijian language and educate them so that they can understand the Indian culture. This follows the passing of a motion at the church's annual Bose ko Viti conference at the Centenary Church in Suva last month. The president of the Methodist Indian Division, Reverend Read more

Methodist ministers to learn Indo-Fijian language... Read more]]> The Methodist church in Fiji will teach its ministers to speak the Indo-Fijian language and educate them so that they can understand the Indian culture.

This follows the passing of a motion at the church's annual Bose ko Viti conference at the Centenary Church in Suva last month.

The president of the Methodist Indian Division, Reverend Emmanuel Rueben, supported the proposal to teach the language but proposed an amendment.

He suggested educating students in the customs and traditions of Indo-Fijian also be included in the Davuilevu Theological College's programme.

The church sees this as important because of the number of Indo-Fijians who are members of circuits headed by leaders not well versed in Indian traditions and culture.

The Indian Division of the Methodist Church of Fiji has eleven circuits with more than 3000 members.

Reverend Tevita Vanua said they needed to teach students and pastors the Indo-Fijian language, so it could make their church services easier to understand.

He said looking back at open-air sessions, Indo-Fijian brothers and sisters would often attend the service but the message was not delivered in the language they understood.

Secularism and postmodernism were having a powerful impact on the church's growth according to the church's president Reverend Dr Epineri Vakadewavosa.

In his opening address, he said Pacific Methodist leaders had been deliberating seriously on how best to advise local churches to withstand the challenge of declining membership.

"There is a very real need to revisit the first church in Jerusalem and recapture what we have lost," he said.

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Methodist ministers to learn Indo-Fijian language]]> 111275 Latin makes comeback thanks to Pink Floyd and Pope https://cathnews.co.nz/2015/02/13/latin-makes-comeback-thanks-pink-floyd-pope/ Thu, 12 Feb 2015 18:20:26 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=67857 From Facebook to Pink Floyd and Google to Harry Potter, long-dead Latin is enjoying something of a modern renaissance. Some students in Rome speak the language all day, and one band has even produced an album in the mother tongue of Julius Caesar. Nor is the language confined to dusty books: Google Translate now has Read more

Latin makes comeback thanks to Pink Floyd and Pope... Read more]]> From Facebook to Pink Floyd and Google to Harry Potter, long-dead Latin is enjoying something of a modern renaissance.

Some students in Rome speak the language all day, and one band has even produced an album in the mother tongue of Julius Caesar.

Nor is the language confined to dusty books: Google Translate now has a Latin setting, and Facebook's 1.2 billion users can choose Latin as their default language, where on logging in they are asked "Quid in animo tuo est" ("What's in your mind").

More than 3,000 people have subscribed to a new online monthly magazine called "Hebdomada Aenigmatum" which features crosswords, Sudoku and other puzzles in the long-dead language used by ancient Roman emperors and philosophers. Continue reading

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