Provoking Billboard - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 10 Dec 2015 03:29:14 +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 Provoking Billboard - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Billboard - it's time be shocked again https://cathnews.co.nz/2015/12/11/billboard-time-if-year-again/ Thu, 10 Dec 2015 16:02:17 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=79728

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

Billboard - it's time be shocked again... Read more]]> 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, God was a hard act to follow."

The church also supported gay marriage with a number of billboards.

Cardy says Christmas is not only about being generous and welcoming as individuals, but about making sure "our Government's policies towards refugees are generous and welcoming".

"Rather than being greeted by a gun, a barbed-wire fence and a blunt statement 'Sorry, there's no room', could not we greet refugees with shelter, food, and assistance with work?" he asks.

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Billboard - it's time be shocked again]]> 79728 Church billboards: 10 of the funniest https://cathnews.co.nz/2013/09/10/church-billboards-10-funniest/ Mon, 09 Sep 2013 19:30:36 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=49371 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

Church billboards: 10 of the funniest... 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 best examples provokative billboards. Have a look

Church billboards: 10 of the funniest]]> 49371 Jesus heals cancer billboard complaint upheld https://cathnews.co.nz/2012/05/04/jesus-heals-cancer-billboard-complaint-upheld/ Thu, 03 May 2012 19:30:02 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=24537 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

Jesus heals cancer billboard complaint upheld... 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 Authority (ASA) after nine complaints were laid.

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Jesus heals cancer billboard complaint upheld]]> 24537 Church modifies healing billboard http://skynews.net.nz/offbeat/article.aspx?id=726574&vId= Mon, 19 Mar 2012 18:30:58 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=21339 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'.

Church modifies healing billboard... 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'.

Church modifies healing billboard]]> 21339 St Matthews in the City has moved away from traditional Christianity http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/newzealand/8957667/Virgin-Mary-billboard-sparks-outrage-in-New-Zealand.html Thu, 15 Dec 2011 18:30:14 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=18227 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 Read more

St Matthews in the City has moved away from traditional Christianity... Read more]]> 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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