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Kiwi churches celebrate Christmas video

New Zealand churches have celebrated Christmas today with services around the country.

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St Matthew in the City has garnered a reputation in recent years for provocative advertising

Billboard questions Jesus' sexuality

It just wouldn’t be Christmas without a controversial billboard from Auckland’s St Matthew in the City church.

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People stand by the wreckage from the car bomb explosion at the site  (Photo: Reuters)

Car bombing at north Nigeria church kills 15

A suicide car bomber detonated a bomb in a church compound in northern Nigeria yesterday, killing at least 15 people.

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Ateliana Lei Malu was remanded for sentence on June 19

Woman rips fellow churchgoer's earlobe off

A Palmerston North churchgoer ripped off part of a fellow parishioner's earlobe.

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Justin Duckworth

Justin Duckworth not your ordinary bishop video

Wellington's Anglican Church has appointed a new bishop, but he's far from your usual man of the cloth.

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Nigeria's weak central government has been slow to respond to the Boko Haram sect, suspected of the attack (Reuters)

5 dead & others wounded in Nigeria church attack

Gunmen have attacked a church in northeast Nigeria during a night prayer service, killing at least five people and wounding others.

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In the sunshine and reasonably shake-free, Christchurch residents attended Christmas church services outside today

Christchurch holds outdoor church Christmas services video

One place with every reason to spend this Christmas outdoors was Christchurch.

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Protester Arthur Skinner is a member of the Catholic Action Group

Provacative St Matthews Christmas billboard destroyed

A controversial billboard at St-Matthews-in-the-City Church has been torn down by a Catholic protester.

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Idestrom says his modern Mass is a further development on the road of progress

Swedish Lutheran church hosts 'techno Mass'

Instead of praying silently and singing gentle hymns, the congregation inside raves to techno sounds in ultraviolet lighting at Friday's ‘techno Mass’.

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Liberty Trust isn't charging a cent in interest

Liberty Trust: God doesn’t believe in interest on loans video

Does an interest free loan sound too good to be true? According to a Whakatane based church it's God's will that we don't pay interest, and aren't burdened with debt.

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The Gay-Dar sign was ripped from its board

St Matthew's 'Gay-Dar' sign vandalised

Auckland's St Matthew’s in the City church has had its latest controversial billboard vandalised.

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There was a tense standoff this morning in an Oamaru church

Altar-cation in Oamaru church video

There was a tense standoff this morning in an Oamaru church.

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Britain's Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams (Reuters)

Church of England paves the way for women bishops

The Church of England national assembly decided Monday that women should be allowed to become bishops.

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Episcopal church ordains 2nd openly gay bishop

The Episcopal Church has consecrated a woman as its second openly gay bishop/

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The billboard was vandalised three times before the church took it down permanently

Auckland billboard clergyman no longer Archdeacon

The Anglican clergyman behind a controversial Christmas billboard denies he has been sacked.

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Catholic Church outraged over billboard video

The Catholic Church and family groups are outraged by a billboard which went up in central Auckland today.

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The billboard shows Joseph looking down dejectedly and Mary looking sad, with the caption, "Poor Joseph. God is a hard act to follow" (NZPA)

Paint thrown at church's bedroom billboard

St Matthew-in-the-City Church's controversial new billboard has reportedly been attacked with paint.

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The billboard has been erected outside St Matthew in the City in central Auckland

Catholic church reacts to controversial billboard video

The catholic church and family groups are outraged by a billboard which has been put up by a church in Auckland.

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New Zealand's only Mormon school has closed after 51 years of operation

Mormon College's doors closed

New Zealand's only Mormon school, Hamilton's Church College, has closed after 51 years of secondary schooling.

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The church members thought they were donating towards a man's medical treatment, but they were funding his gambling addiction

Man who gambled away church money back in court

Church members thought they were donating towards medical treatment, but it was for a gambling addiction

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