New Zealand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade has found itself involved in a bitter dispute over an Egyptian businessman’s sperm and is doing its diplomatic best to extricate itself. Mohammad Fouad has taken to court claims his Kiwi wife misused his sperm to get their maid pregnant. Gulfnews.com reports Fouad is suing his wife Read more
Posts Tagged ‘New Zealand’
Tourism NZ runs competition for first gay Aussies to be married here
Tuesday, August 20th, 2013
Paul McCarthy and Trent Kandler from Speers Point, near Newcastle, were married in front of 20 family members and friends in Wellington on Monday after winning a competition run by Tourism New Zealand to be the first Australian gay couple to be wed under New Zealand’s same-sex marriage laws. The competition aimed to capitalise on the Read more
Hindus ask NZ Herald for an apology
Friday, July 26th, 2013
Local Hindus are upset about a caricature of the Hindu goddess Kali in that was recently published on the front page of the New Zealand Herald. Distinguished Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in speaking in Nevada has asked Herald Editor-in-Chief, Tim Murphy, and Board Chairman of its parent APN News & Media Peter Cosgrove to apologise Read more
New Zealand’s ‘the real deal’ for Mormons
Friday, June 14th, 2013
A Mormon missionary has produced a striking guide to serving in New Zealand, describing Kiwis as “earthy, raw, straight-shooting, irreverent, hilarious, and caring folk”. Missionary Gina Colvin, in a blog on a major Mormon website, also took shots at her own Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints and the way Americans see the Read more
Catholic Voices media project could come to NZ
Friday, May 31st, 2013
The launching of the Catholic Voices project in Australia has raised the prospect of this media initiative being extended to New Zealand. Catholic Voices, whose aim is to improve the Catholic Church’s representation in the media, began in Britain in 2010 with the training of 24 lay people and a priest in preparation for the Read more
Archbishop Martin Krebs appointed new Apostolic Nuncio
Friday, May 10th, 2013
The Holy Father, with the agreement of the respective governments, has announced that Archbishop Martin Krebs is the new Apostolic Nuncio to New Zealand, the Cook Islands, Kiribati, Palau, and Federated States of Micronesia in the Pacific. Archbishop Krebs (56) was born in Essen, Germany. He was ordained priest in 1983, and after obtaining a doctorate in Read more
NZ Charities accountable to no one
Tuesday, May 7th, 2013
New Zealand has no idea what charities are doing with their money nor whether they actually make a difference, says Dr Michael Gousmett, a member of the Australian Charity Law Association. As reported by Stuff, Gousmett says New Zealand Charities are not required by law to give a percentage of their surplus to the public benefit. Read more
Bishop Browne: Hunger in an agricultural country hard to believe
Tuesday, May 7th, 2013
Hunger in an agricultural country where the shops and even the garbage bins are full of food seems too hard to believe, said Hamilton Bishop Denis Browne said on Thursday. The NZ Herald reports Bishop Browne is calling on the Government to allow different policy options for food programmes in schools to be examined and Read more
Church in NZ missing out on communications opportunities
Tuesday, April 16th, 2013
The revolution in communications media presents a wonderful opportunity that the Church has been slow to grasp. Until the 1990s, access to the general population through the media was controlled by the gatekeepers of newspapers, radio and television. Now this barrier has been bypassed by the new media — Internet-based, available to everyone, faster and cheaper Read more
Pope Francis gives New Zealand Catholics a voice again
Tuesday, April 9th, 2013
As a somewhat old-fashioned, traditional type, I welcomed the engaging presence and comment of Dame Lyndsay Freer to my radio and TV during the recent papal conclave. Long before the advent of television, St Thomas Aquinas said, “faith comes from hearing“, and the Catholic Church in New Zealand, once again, at least for a limited Read more