A Catholic school has won a top educational achievement award for its “cohesive values”, teaching students how to care for each other. McAuley High School in Otahuhu won the Prime Minister’s Education Supreme Award at a ceremony in Auckland tonight. The school was recognised for uniting with the community to change the way it works Read more
Last week the deputy prime minister, and minister of finance Bill English spent almost an hour year with 13 students at St John’s College in Hamilton. “They’re enquiring, they’re confident to ask. At that age, I would never have asked a politician a question, certainly not in public,” he said. “They’re watching the world. There Read more
Susana Lemisio was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the Queen’s Birthday honours for her services to the Tokelau community and early childhood education. She came to New Zealand in the 1960s as an 18-year-old “and it was a shock to me to see for the first time the tall Read more
A controversial American preacher who has faced allegations he sexually abused young men during a previous trip to New Zealand urged Destiny Church followers to “repent, repent, repent” at their annual conference. American evangelist Eddie Long was the guest of honour at Destiny’s annual get together at the “City of God” in Manukau, south Auckland, Read more
Dunedin’s St Joseph Cathedral was packed with people paying respects to Emeritus Bishop Len Boyle. Boyle, who was the fifth bishop of the diocese of Dunedin, died on June 1. A requiem mass – held at St Joseph Cathedral – featured Catholic bishops from around New Zealand. The Deputy Prime Minister Bill English, the former Read more
Long serving teacher and headmaster of several Catholic Colleges, Mr Kieran Fouhy was named on the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for his services to education. He was made a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit. “As a Catholic community, we are delighted to see him acknowledged in this way for his contribution, over Read more
The Diocese of Christchurch will have to pay a $150,000 development fee after a plea to have it waived was unsuccessful. Despite warnings from staff, the strategy and finance committee had recommended council waive the fee. Mayor Lianne Dalziel, who backed the application at the committee stages, said she had changed her mind on the matter. At a Read more
The homeless population of central Auckland is two-and-a-half times higher than it was three years ago, a new report says. The Auckland City Street Count of Central Auckland has found 177 people were sleeping rough within 3km of the Sky Tower on a single night this year. That’s the most recorded since the count began Read more
Jehovah’s Witnesses target grief and see the recently bereaved as “ripe fruit” for conversion, a former elder of the faith says. Vince and Michele Tylor spoke out after reading the story of Wellington woman Jean Sergent-Shadbolt, who received a handwritten letter from a Jehovah’s Witness three months to the day after her step-cousin, friend and Read more
St Theresa’s School in Plimmerton, near Wellington has won an award for promoting New Zealand Sign Language, after only including it in curriculum at the beginning of this year. A deaf pupil began in the new entrants class in term 1, and sign language is needed to communicate with him. The school received the New Read more