supersition - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Mon, 03 May 2021 11:26:25 +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 supersition - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 "Spiritual but not religious" generation Zers turn to tarot cards https://cathnews.co.nz/2021/05/03/generation-z-tarot-cards/ Mon, 03 May 2021 11:19:11 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=135869 Generation Z is the driving force behind the renewed popularity and mainstreaming of tarot cards. Theresa Reed, known online as The Tarot Lady, says it's not just for witches anymore. Read more

"Spiritual but not religious" generation Zers turn to tarot cards... Read more]]> Generation Z is the driving force behind the renewed popularity and mainstreaming of tarot cards.

Theresa Reed, known online as The Tarot Lady, says it's not just for witches anymore. Read more

"Spiritual but not religious" generation Zers turn to tarot cards]]> 135869 Infected Bali holy water brings on eye trouble https://cathnews.co.nz/2017/08/03/infected-bali-holy-water/ Thu, 03 Aug 2017 07:52:59 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=97454 An Auckland woman came close to losing sight in one eye after bathing in contaminated water in Bali. Fighting the infection the lawyer and mother-of-two endured five days of sleep deprivation, woken hourly to have antibiotics administered. Last month Jenine​ Briggs went to Bali on a week-long yoga retreat. During the retreat she visited the Read more

Infected Bali holy water brings on eye trouble... Read more]]> An Auckland woman came close to losing sight in one eye after bathing in contaminated water in Bali. Fighting the infection the lawyer and mother-of-two endured five days of sleep deprivation, woken hourly to have antibiotics administered.

Last month Jenine​ Briggs went to Bali on a week-long yoga retreat. During the retreat she visited the Hindu Balinese water temple Tirta Empul, near the town of Tampaksiring, where it's common for visitors to bathe in the temple's holy water. Continue reading

Infected Bali holy water brings on eye trouble]]> 97454 Witch doctor offers magic services in Wellington https://cathnews.co.nz/2016/08/19/witch-doctor-offers-magic-services-welliongton/ Thu, 18 Aug 2016 16:50:34 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=85968 A witchdoctor arrived from India and advertised black magic and "good luck" services at a Hutt Valley hostel this month. The self-proclaimed astrologer and relationship guru's emergence worried a community leader who helped get several faith healers deported last year. "We have got one who has snuck in the country, in Wellington," Justice of the Peace Pratima Nand said on Wednesday. Continue reading

Witch doctor offers magic services in Wellington... Read more]]> A witchdoctor arrived from India and advertised black magic and "good luck" services at a Hutt Valley hostel this month.

The self-proclaimed astrologer and relationship guru's emergence worried a community leader who helped get several faith healers deported last year.

"We have got one who has snuck in the country, in Wellington," Justice of the Peace Pratima Nand said on Wednesday. Continue reading

Witch doctor offers magic services in Wellington]]> 85968 Understand science to combat sorcery https://cathnews.co.nz/2013/06/14/understand-science-to-combat-sorcery/ Thu, 13 Jun 2013 19:30:29 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=45341

Fr Philip Gibbs says that one of the factors that gives rise to sorcery is that people often don't understand the basic science behind a person's health. He was speaking at the Sorcery and witchcraft-related killings in Melanesia: Culture, law and human rights perspectives Conference at The Australian National University in Canberra, last week. The conference was attended Read more

Understand science to combat sorcery... Read more]]> Fr Philip Gibbs says that one of the factors that gives rise to sorcery is that people often don't understand the basic science behind a person's health.

He was speaking at the Sorcery and witchcraft-related killings in Melanesia: Culture, law and human rights perspectives Conference at The Australian National University in Canberra, last week.

The conference was attended by a number of people seen to be critical to solving the problem of sorcery killings in PNG.

Sorcery in PNG has been in the spotlight for a number of recent gruesome incidents involving women being tortured and killed after being accused of witchcraft.

One of the main topics discussed at the conference is the influence of churches in PNG, and how they can bring about change.

Gibbs said when someone dies, some people will immediately blame black magic and hunt down the alleged sorcerer, and then proceed to torture and kill them.

He says a culture of blame and revenge is pervasive in PNG, and people need to be better educated.

"To try to help people come to a more scientific understanding of how things happen and why things happen. For instance, if somebody has an accident here usually the question asked will be 'well, who's behind it?' They're always looking for a personalised form of evil that's behind it."

Fr Philip Gibbs, SVD, is from New Zealand. He is a Divine Word Missionary and was ordained in 1978. Fr. Philip is an anthropologist and directs the Melanesian Institute in Goroka, Papua New Guinea.

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