foregiveness - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Wed, 25 Sep 2019 21:12:58 +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 foregiveness - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Church group crowdsources 'I forgive you' emoji design https://cathnews.co.nz/2019/09/26/i-forgive-you-emoji-design/ Thu, 26 Sep 2019 08:20:45 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=121494 Someone did something silly, and now you need a way to say they're forgiven. How do you do that in emojis? The Forgivemoji campaign encourages people to design an emoji that represents forgiveness. The team behind the campaign will then decide on the best entry and then submit it to the Unicode Consortium. Read more

Church group crowdsources ‘I forgive you' emoji design... Read more]]> Someone did something silly, and now you need a way to say they're forgiven. How do you do that in emojis?

The Forgivemoji campaign encourages people to design an emoji that represents forgiveness. The team behind the campaign will then decide on the best entry and then submit it to the Unicode Consortium. Read more

Church group crowdsources ‘I forgive you' emoji design]]> 121494 Bereaved sister: Don't jail the driver https://cathnews.co.nz/2016/05/31/bereaved-sister-dont-jail-driver/ Mon, 30 May 2016 16:52:59 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=83309 An American tourist who killed a mum-to-be, Kylee Anne Rakich, and another woman in a head-on crash has avoided jail time. In an extraordinary display of compassion, Ms Rakich's bereaved sister lobbied the judge to not send the 66-year-old to prison on charges of careless use of a motor vehicle causing death - because, she Read more

Bereaved sister: Don't jail the driver... Read more]]> An American tourist who killed a mum-to-be, Kylee Anne Rakich, and another woman in a head-on crash has avoided jail time.

In an extraordinary display of compassion, Ms Rakich's bereaved sister lobbied the judge to not send the 66-year-old to prison on charges of careless use of a motor vehicle causing death - because, she says, he has already been handed "a life sentence" in being diagnosed with a brain tumour. Continue reading also Read more

Bereaved sister: Don't jail the driver]]> 83309 Fiji's ousted Speaker of Parliament calls for forgiveness at Easter https://cathnews.co.nz/2014/04/22/fijis-ousted-speaker-parliament-calls-forgiveness-easter/ Mon, 21 Apr 2014 19:04:10 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=56911

Pita Nacuva, the ousted Speaker of the House of Representatives has called Fijians to forgiveness. Nacuva was sworn in as the House of Representatives Speaker on Monday, June 5, 2006. And while he had little time to serve, he has forgiven those involved in the events of December 5, 2006, leading the removal of the Read more

Fiji's ousted Speaker of Parliament calls for forgiveness at Easter... Read more]]> Pita Nacuva, the ousted Speaker of the House of Representatives has called Fijians to forgiveness.

Nacuva was sworn in as the House of Representatives Speaker on Monday, June 5, 2006.

And while he had little time to serve, he has forgiven those involved in the events of December 5, 2006, leading the removal of the democratically-elected government.

"Beloved Fijians, this is the season for forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you (Ephesians 4:32)," Mr Nacuva told the Fiji Times.

In a public statement made this week, he explained that while the spirit of that Constitution "is still hovering over the waters", it was indeed the season to forgive.

"I hereby with a very clear conscience grant my personal forgiveness to those involved for neither upholding their personal integrity nor dependent on their god-given conscience but succumbed to unjustified external commands, orders, coercion and intimidation."

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Fiji's ousted Speaker of Parliament calls for forgiveness at Easter]]> 56911 Church turns other cheek - easy to forgive http://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/news/6518325/Church-turns-other-cheek Mon, 05 Mar 2012 18:30:05 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=20370 A church broken into by a drug-taking former employee has forgiven her for an ungodly string of offending. In the Palmerston North District Court this week, Samantha Erana-Waitangi MacDonald, 23, admitted four charges of burglary - stealing $12,190 worth of items. She later confessed her sins to police, saying she did it to fund her Read more

Church turns other cheek - easy to forgive... Read more]]> A church broken into by a drug-taking former employee has forgiven her for an ungodly string of offending.

In the Palmerston North District Court this week, Samantha Erana-Waitangi MacDonald, 23, admitted four charges of burglary - stealing $12,190 worth of items.

She later confessed her sins to police, saying she did it to fund her methamphetamine use.

Police prosecutor Sergeant Chris Whitmore said all the victims were known to her through the House of Breakthrough Church, on the corner of Brentwood and Highbury avenues, Palmerston North.

MacDonald had worked at the church, and on November 14, used a key she had in her possession to walk into its premises and take a cash box with $500 in it.

Later that night she returned.

"[MacDonald] smashed a window by the front door to make it appear the building had been broken into," Mr Whitmore said.

Yesterday, church pastor John Faiz told the Manawatu Standard the decision to forgive MacDonald was easy.

"I don't have any animosity towards Samantha," Mr Whitmore said.

"One of our values is forgiving people."

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