To donate to the emergency appeal, click here or call 0800 800 777. You can also visit www.tearfund.org.nz Here is some information about our response in Pakistan and how your money will be used if you choose to donate: We are supporting two emergency responses of two of our local partners on the ground: First Partner: One of our local [...]
Here’s an image from Reuters by Photographer/Journalist Damir Sagolj featured in the Guardian’s 24 Hours in Pictures display that they run each day. It speaks volumes. It’s often easy to glance past images without really taking them in and giving them a second thought. When we do so we miss the rich stories and reflections that they offer us. Take [...]
Update: I have sorted the issues out. If you have any problems, please let me know by leaving a comment here. With a recent upgrade to WordPress 3.0 we are experiencing some technical issues with this blog. I have isolated it to a problematic plugin, now I just need to identify which plugin it is. Thanks for your patience as [...]
Below is the embedded report. You can scroll through it here, make it full screen, download it or print it out. Trafficking In Persons Report
The information war is being employed to its fullest at the moment due to the tragic incident that took place this week where a flotilla of ships tried to break the naval blockade off the coast of Gaza and were boarded by Israeli Defense Force (IDF) commandos, resulting in multiple deaths and injuries. Predictably, all involved parties are painting themselves [...]
On July 11, 1947 a ship once known as President Warfield but renamed SS Exodus, left the port of miggets Sete in France. The ship had served as part of the American navy during WW2 but was sold by the War Shipping Administration in 1946. It was purchased by the Potomac Shipwrecking Company which was acting as an agent of [...]
TEAR Fund NZ’s senior Programme Officer is currently in the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince. He is there serving our partner, Tearfund UK, and will be acting as the Director of their Disaster Response Team as they go about establishing their work in the area over the next few months. Ian has kindly agreed to share his experience through regular blog [...]
TEAR Fund’s Easter Focus for 2010 has been empowering women in the slums of India, specifically focusing on the work of our partner, Saahasee in the Bhiwandi area on the outskirts of Mumbai. Recently a group of our advocates had an opportunity to visit that project. One of the them was Carl. This is Carl’s reflection on that visit. It [...]
It has been interesting following one of the conversations over at the Aotearoa (NZ) blog Not PC, run by Peter Creswell. It seems that Peter has a real and very understandable issue with Christianity and has used the controversy around Easter trading laws to vent that issue. Allow me to state right from the beginning that I am a Christian [...]
In the lead up to (and during) Easter we have been putting up a new lent devotion each week day. These devotions are also available in the discussions section of our Facebook page and have been played on New Zealand’s Rhema. The Lord is risen. He is risen indeed! The resurrection of Jesus was an amazing new beginning. Evil had [...]
In the lead up to Easter we have been putting up a new lent devotion each week day. These devotions are also available in the discussions section of our Facebook page and have been played on New Zealand’s Rhema. The death of Jesus represented a moment of confusion for the disciples and without the hindsight of the Resurrection; the time [...]
In the lead up to Easter we have been putting up a new lent devotion each week day. These devotions are also available in the discussions section of our Facebook page and have been played on New Zealand’s Rhema. On the day Jesus was crucified and in the trial leading up to that event we see the biggest blow that [...]
Frank chats with Lloyd Martin, one of the founding member of Praxis. They discuss what Praxis is, how it was formed, TEAR Fund’s partnership with work Praxis is doing in Fiji and Christian short term missions. Are Christian short term mission trips worthwhile? Is there a better way?
In the lead up to Easter we will be putting up a new lent devotion each week day. These devotions will also be available in the discussions section of our Facebook page and will be played on New Zealand’s Rhema. On the night before Jesus was crucified he broke bread and drank wine with his disciples, using the bread and [...]
In the lead up to Easter we will be putting up a new lent devotion each week day. These devotions will also be available in the discussions section of our Facebook page and will be played on New Zealand’s Rhema. In the account of Jesus entering the city of Jerusalem in the gospel of Matthew, chapter 21, we are given [...]
In the lead up to Easter we will be putting up a new lent devotion each week day. These devotions will also be available in the discussions section of our Facebook page and will be played on New Zealand’s Rhema. During the very short amount of time I have spent visiting urban slums in two developing countries there is something [...]
