Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster congratulated the United Kingdom’s new prime minister, Liz Truss, and urged her to focus on the poor by immediately halting the country’s declining living standards. The cardinal, president of the English and Welsh bishops’ conference, said many people in the UK would be facing the choice between “heating and eating” Read more
The voices of a church, a charity and an economist are raised against the government’s petrol tax. They say that it is regressive and will hurt Auckland’s poor the most. Transport minister, Phil Twyford, says he wants a fuel excise duty increase of between nine and 12 cents a litre. Furthermore, Aucklanders would have to Read more
Family First says the Government is undervaluing mothers by not allowing a bill, proposing to extend paid parental leave, to proceed to a first reading. In the week before Easter a member’s bill which aims to extend paid parental leave in New Zealand from 14 to 26 weeks came up in the ballot. It is being proposed by Labour’s Sue Read more
A Whangarei church will feed a record 750 low-income families this Christmas, albeit in a different way.
The Elim Christian Centre, formerly known as the Equip Church, will deliver food packs to needy families in Whangarei rather than organising a Christmas dinner which it did previously.
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