tai chi - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Mon, 04 May 2015 01:37:14 +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 tai chi - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Southland Church ejects tai chi group https://cathnews.co.nz/2015/05/05/new-zealand-church-ejects-tai-chi-group/ Mon, 04 May 2015 18:50:45 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=71002 A tai chi class made up of elderly women and arthritis sufferers has been booted out of a church hall over fears they are a threat to the church's "spiritual wellbeing". The group's leader said the 20 women had been practising tai chi in the Central Southland Presbyterian Parish hall without issue for five years, Read more

Southland Church ejects tai chi group... Read more]]> A tai chi class made up of elderly women and arthritis sufferers has been booted out of a church hall over fears they are a threat to the church's "spiritual wellbeing".

The group's leader said the 20 women had been practising tai chi in the Central Southland Presbyterian Parish hall without issue for five years, but were approached by parish council clerk John Willis and told to leave last month.

Willis said while the council understood the programme did not include any religious content, it believed tai chi conflicted with the church's teachings and threatened the church's spiritual wellbeing. Continue reading

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