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  • 25 Dec 2011
    Christmas services go outdoors as quakes again hit New Zealand city

    Many Christmas church services in Christchurch, New Zealand will be held outdoors after four strong earthquakes struck on 23 December

  • 31 Oct 2011
    New Zealand's quake-hit cathedral to be partially demolished

    The landmark Christchurch Cathedral, badly damaged in an earthquake on 22 February, will be deconsecrated, partially demolished and made safe.

  • 8 Mar 2011
    No dead found at cathedral after Christchurch quake

    A complete search inside Christchurch Anglican Cathedral, after the devastating city earthquake, has revealed that there were no bodies in the rubble.

  • 2 Mar 2011
    New Zealand minute's silence for earthquake victims

    New Zealand observed two minutes of silence in churches and public squares on 1 March in memory of the victims of the 22 February earthquake.

  • 27 Feb 2011
    Christchurch Cathedral and an uncertain path

    Cathedral ritual anchored in the agonies of the Christchurch earthquake tragedy, but sitting separate enough to allow pain to be touched and held. This is the place where the sacred, the mystery in our midst, may sometimes be glimpsed as creative inspiration for restoration, says Sande Ramage, writing from New Zealand.

  • 26 Feb 2011
    Churches grieve with other victims of Christchurch quake

    The overall death toll from the 22 February earthquake in New Zealand has reached 113, with more than 200 people missing and hundreds injured.

  • 24 Feb 2011
    Caritas commits aid to New Zealand quake victims

    Caritas Aotearoa has pledged NZ$25,000 towards relief and recovery following the latest devastating quake to hit Christchurch, New Zealand.

  • 24 Feb 2011
    Christchurch's reasonable hope

    Living with uncertainty is the reality of existence, says Sande Ramage. Pretending otherwise by constructing systems and traditions that look reliable is a human preoccupation, until we are stopped in our tracks by disaster such as that which has struck Christchurch.

  • 22 Feb 2011
    Recovery operation begins after Christchurch earthquake

    Hundreds of Christchurch residents have been spending the night in the city's parks after the massive earthquake that hit the New Zealand city.

  • 23 Apr 2010
    ANZAC weekend and nonviolent Christian offensiveness

    To question the sacralized version of violent history and ‘salvation’ embodied in the ANZAC weekend celebrations in Australia and New Zealand is to risk being accused of ‘blasphemy’ and causing great offence, says Jarrod McKenna. Yet Christians have to risk offending in order to witness to the nonviolent overcoming we encounter and are changed by in Christ’s cross, and to point a better way forward for humanity.