Leaders of Anglican, Methodist and Roman Catholic churches in New Zealand have launched a new platform for conversation and work together, to be known as the National Dialogue for Christian Unity (NDCU).
07 March 2016
New Zealand’s two archbishops have called for a “more generous” approach to refugees and a “substantial increase” on the quota for the country’s refugee intake. They are also calling for “extra pathways” for refugees to enter New Zealand.
26 February 2016
The chief executive of the Anglican Missions Board (AMB) – the relief and development agency of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia – has called on international Anglicans to assist with prayers and funds as it responds to the recent cyclone that caused devastation in Fiji and its surrounding islands.
25 February 2016
In 2014, the General Synod of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia passed a resolution that created a pathway towards the blessing of same-gender relationships while upholding the traditional doctrine of marriage. A working group set up to devise “a process and structure” by which this could happen has today reported.
22 February 2016
The largest storm ever recorded in the region struck the islands of Fiji over the weekend, after causing widespread damage in Tonga. The Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia is already working to assess the damage and begin its response.
22 February 2016
Church services have been held to mark Waitangi Day – the anniversary of the Treaty of Waitangi. The Treaty is the founding document of New Zealand in which the indigenous Māori people of the islands ceded sovereignty to the British Crown.
09 February 2016
Nine New Zealand bishops have made a submission to the country’s Parliament urging no change to the law where the “right to die” is concerned. Their intervention follows a similar submission last week from the ecumenical InterChurch Bioethics Council.
02 February 2016
The ecumenical body which advises church members of the “spiritual, ethical and cultural issues connected to biotechnology and related issues” in New Zealand has responded to a government consultation by stressing its opposition to the introduction of “physician-assisted suicide.”
28 January 2016
The Bishop of Waikato, the Rt Revd Dr Helen-Ann Hartley, has been elected an honorary fellow of her former Oxford college.
18 January 2016
Archbishop Philip Richardson, one of the Primates of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia with responsibility for the seven tikanga Pakeha Dioceses, called in at the third “Anglican Family Gathering” of the Church of the Province of Myanmar on his way to this week’s Primates Meeting.
11 January 2016