カテゴリー: Christchurch
Finds include 1980s time capsules, old collection boxes and a nativity scene with figures heads ‘taken clean off’Ten years on from Christchurch’s devastating earthquake, the Catholic Diocese has discovered that it is missing a pair of angels.As work co…
The government’s proposal on criminalising the streaming of offensive content is open to misuse and could lead to unnecessary harassmentTwo years on from the horrific mass murders at Al-Noor and Linwood mosques in Christchurch, we know the grief is fre…
History shows that granting further powers to state bodies generally hurts minorities more than othersLast year’s report into the Christchurch mosque attacks was met with scepticism and disappointment from many in the Muslim community, and understandab…
New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern pledges to fight racism as she joins around 1,000 people to mark the second anniversary of the mosque attacksThe 51 worshippers murdered in the Christchurch mosque attacks almost two years ago by a white supremacist have b…
Aya Al-Umari desperately misses her brother Hussein, who was killed in the 2019 massacre, with 50 othersA few months after the Christchurch mosque attacks, Aya Al-Umari went on a pilgrimage to Mecca, and from there to Abu Dhabi, where she and her broth…
Many parts of central Christchurch are unrecognisable nowChristchurch mayor Lianne Dalziel was born and raised in the city she now represents. But she finds it hard to describe how it has changed since the earthquake.“I don’t know whether it’s a post-d…
A minute’s silence was observed at 12.51pm, exactly 10 years after the quake struck the New Zealand cityThe victims of the Christchurch earthquake have been remembered at an emotional ceremony marking ten years since the tragedy.The memorial service wa…
While new buildings have sprung up around it, the ruined cathedral has long been a painful reminder of the earthquake In the months, then years, after the Christchurch earthquake, it was not Sue Spigel’s mind that needed healing, but her spirit.What wo…
On 22 February, 2011, a 6.3 magnitude earthquake hit, killing 185 people. Those left behind have spent a decade coming to terms with the tragedySome likened it to a tornado, or an oncoming train; others remember registering not much more than a rumble …
The 16-year-old is the first person in the country to be detained for being ‘inspired by far-right extremist ideology’A 16-year-old who was arrested in Singapore for allegedly planning a terror attack on two mosques was inspired by the Australian who c…
New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern apologises for police and security failings but says they would not have stopped the attackNew Zealand’s security agencies were “almost exclusively” focused on the threat from Islamist terrorism at the time of …
Military says Kiwis will be disappointed if they haven’t prebooked a place as hotels approach capacityNew Zealand’s quarantine hotels are approaching capacity as the military warns there may not be room to house Kiwis planning to return home for Christ…
More than 90 people – the wounded, the mourning, the defiant – spoke at the sentencing hearing for the gunman responsible for New Zealand’s most deadly terrorist attack, explaining how the massacre changed their lives forever. Here we document their ev…
Jacinda Ardern will talk to families of those killed, who say New Zealand should not pay for keeping the Australian terrorist locked up for lifeSome survivors of the mosque massacre in Christchurch are calling for Australia to pay for the lifetime pris…
The sentencing of the Christchurch gunman delivered a mood of catharsis and jubilation for manyNoraini Abbas Milne woke up her son, Sayyad, by tickling his feet, as was his usual request, and gave him a cuddle. It was 15 March 2019.She told him that sh…