St Luke’s Presbyterian Church in Remuera has put up a billboard showing Mary and Joseph as refugees on a leaky boat being turned away from the European coast. Minister Reverend Glynn Cardy had previously been behind controversial billboards at St Matthew-in-the-city – including one showing Mary and Joseph in bed with the caption, “Poor Joseph, Read more
Auckland’s St Matthews in the City is not the only Church whose Billboard that causes controversy A witty, provocative billboard from an Ontario Anglican church went viral last tweek after being posted on Reddit. Toby Manhire, in his column in the New Zealand Listener, though that this is as good an occasion as any to collect the Read more
Complaints about a controversial Napier church billboard claiming Jesus heals cancer have been upheld by advertising officials. The Equippers Church sign, which also displayed a tally of six to signify the number of people the church claimed had been healed of cancer caused outrage among many people, and sparked an investigation with the Advertising Standards Read more
The words ‘Jesus heals cancer’ have been removed from a billboard erected by a New Zealand church.
The church removed the words from the billboard on Wednesday, replacing them with a quote from the Bible: ‘Jesus heals every sickness and every disease – Matthew 4:23’.
Read the article...Lyndsay Freer, a spokesman for the Catholic diocese of Auckland, is unimpressed by the latest billboard raised by St Matthews in the City.
“Once again, St Matthew’s shows us that they have moved away from traditional Christianity, even though their hearts might be in the right place,” she said.
“It is true that Christmas is real and celebrates a real pregnancy.
“It is also true that the anxiety and needs of young solo mothers today need to be addressed with compassion and care.
“But in making this point, St Matthew’s ignores the gospel account of matters surrounding the pregnancy and birth of Jesus, in which Mary is not a shocked solo mother but a young woman who has given her assent and trust to God,” She said
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