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Wonderful Maori carvings at Mine Bay, Lake Taupo, New Zealand

May 30, 2013 by Andrew Leave a Comment

Lake Taupo is the largest lake, by surface area, in New Zealand. It’s a freshwater lake too that sits in a caldera created by a super volcano about 27,000 years ago. There are still hot springs in the area, especially at the Horomatangi vent and the volcano is considered dormant and not extinct. These carvings […]

Is a Jesus cult terrorising Kim Valentine?

July 31, 2011 by Andrew 1 Comment

The video below is a brief introduction to Alan John Miller and his Divine Truth. Yes; the website has a bold retro design. AJ has stepped forward to announce that he is Jesus, the son of god, Yeshua ben Yosef. His partner, Mary, is Mary Magdalene. AJ says that the Divine Truths he taught during […]

Hell hot cross buns: “For a limited time. A bit like Jesus”

April 7, 2011 by Andrew 1 Comment

Hell Pizza in New Zealand have (another) advertising campaign that’s upsetting the Church. What have they done? They’re selling hot cruss buns for Easter. The buns are decorated with an inverted pentagram – a symbol commonly associated with Satanism. There’s more. The tagline for the advert – which appears in billboards all over Auckland, the […]

Is religion is dying?

March 24, 2011 by Andrew Leave a Comment

Researchers in America working for the Northwestern Universityand the University of Arizona have concluded that people the West are finding religion to be less useful. They suggest that religion itself may die out in nine nations. To get to these results, the research team used mathematical techniques, nonlinear dynamics, to mine data from census results […]

Flaming faces haunt burning New Zealand building

May 6, 2009 by Andrew 7 Comments

New Zealand newspaper The Press has been collecting photographs taken in New Zealand of ghostly and unexplained sightings.

Ghosts in the flames

Ghosts in the flames

The paper dismissed most of the photographs as explainable and orbs, in particular, where described as dust on the camera lens.

Some of the photographs, however, were not so easily categorised by the judges.

Of particular note is the sighting of a ghostly face of flames peering out of the window of a burning building.

Mother drowned in Maori exorcism

May 4, 2009 by Andrew Leave a Comment

A court in Wellington, New Zealand, was told that a family drowned Janet Moses in an attempt to remove a makutu or curse from her.

All nine people charged with manslaughter, three men and six women, are members of Moses’ family.

Trouble began for Janet Moses when her sister stole a lion statue from a local pub. Janet started acting oddly and a kaumatua, a tribal elder, explained to the family she would continue to do so until the statue was returned.

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