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Primates’ Christmas Message: Archbishop Philip Richardson

A Christmas message on behalf of the three Primates of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia, Archbishop Philip Richardson.

22 December 2016

Wellington’s St Paul’s Cathedral re-opens for Christmas

The congregation of St Paul’s Cathedral in Wellington will return to their building for Christmas services after a safety cordon around it was lifted.

15 December 2016

Churches united in land divided by New Zealand earthquake

The Anglican Taonga news service found a land divided, but a community and its churches united, when it toured the earthquake-hit region of southern Marlborough.

13 December 2016

“Gender-based violence is a sin” – Church leaders take message to the big screen

Christian leaders in Fiji have united to declare that gender-based violence is a sin, in an advert shown on cinema screens and national television.

09 December 2016

New start for Cylone Winston-hit Fijian village of Maniava

New houses, a church and a school are being built in the Fiji village of Maniava, which was all-but blasted from the map when Cyclone Winstone hit in February.

07 December 2016

First Māori children’s Bible published

The New Zealand Bible Society has just launched the first Māori language children’s Bible, Tāku Paipera, which has been described as a “wonderful gift”.

24 November 2016

Churches damaged by New Zealand earthquake

Two people have been killed and many more injured following a 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck the New Zealand town of Kaikoura this week.

17 November 2016

Structural arrangements sought to keep sides in same-sex relationship debate united

The Province of Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia is considering “structural arrangements” to keep people with differing views on same-sex relationships inside the Church.

28 October 2016

NZ Churches take anti-euthanasia campaign to parliament

Members of New Zealand’s InterChurch Bioethics Council have made an oral submission to a parliamentary committee on their opposition to assisted suicide.

23 September 2016

Canterbury finds its new archdeacon on the other side of the world

The Dean of Auckland’s Holy Trinity Cathedral in New Zealand, the Very Revd Jo Kelly-Moore, has been appointed Archdeacon of Canterbury in the Church of England.

13 September 2016