An audio recording of Ps John Alpe's interview for the Church in the Quakes Project. The interview was conducted by Melissa Parsons on 5 December 2012. John Alpe is the Senior Pastor of St Albans Baptist Church.
An audio recording of Greg Wright's interview for the Church in the Quakes Project. The interview was conducted by Melissa Parsons on 22 March 2013. Greg Wright is the Executive Director of the Methodist Churches' Property and Investment Committees.
An audio recording of Rev Peter Collier's interview for the Church in the Quakes Project. The interview was conducted by Melissa Parsons on 7 December 2012. Collier is the Priest Assistant at St John's Church in Latimer Square.
An audio recording of Ps Chris Chamberlain's interview for the Church in the Quakes Project. The interview was conducted by Melissa Parsons on 14 December 2012. Chris Chamberlain is the Senior Pastor at the Oxford Terrace Baptist Church.
Part three of an audio recording of Ps Sam Harvey's interview for the Church in the Quakes Project. The interview was conducted by Melissa Parsons on 14 September 2012. Harvey is the Pastor at the Beach Campus of Grace Vineyard Church.
Part one of an audio recording of Ps Sam Harvey's interview for the Church in the Quakes Project. The interview was conducted by Melissa Parsons on 14 August 2012. Harvey is the Pastor at the Beach Campus of Grace Vineyard Church.
Part two of an audio recording of Ps Sam Harvey's interview for the Church in the Quakes Project. The interview was conducted by Melissa Parsons on 14 September 2012. Harvey is the Pastor at the Beach Campus of Grace Vineyard Church.
Part two of an audio recording of Janice Moss's interview for the Church in the Quakes Project. The interview was conducted by Melissa Parsons on 19 October 2012. Janice Moss is a congregation member of the Wainoni Methodist Church and a former Sunday School teacher.
Part one of an audio recording of Janice Moss's interview for the Church in the Quakes Project. The interview was conducted by Melissa Parsons on 19 October 2012. Janice Moss is a congregation member of the Wainoni Methodist Church and a former Sunday School teacher.
We are taking a look at some of Christchurch's icon and heritage buildings lost, or at least badly damaged by last Tuesdays earthquake.
An audio recording of Rev Darryl Tempero's interview for the Church in the Quakes Project. The interview was conducted by Melissa Parsons on 3 October 2012. At the time, Darryl Tempero was a Minister at Hope Presbyterian Hornby, the Presbyterian Earthquake Coordinator, and the Co-Chair of Christchurch Post Earthquake Churches' Forum.
An audio recording of Karin de Kaijzer and Julia Burnett's interview for the Church in the Quakes Project. The interview was conducted by Melissa Parsons on 17 October 2012. Burnett works alongside De Kaijzer, who is the Women's Pastor at the South City C3 Church.
An audio recording of Bruce Morriss's interview for the Church in the Quakes Project. The interview was conducted by Melissa Parsons on 9 November 2012. Morriss is the South Island Regional Manager for Tearfund NZ.
An audio recording of Rev Gerard Jacobs's interview for the Church in the Quakes Project. The interview was conducted by Melissa Parsons on 12 September 2012. Rev Gerard Jacobs is the Parish priest at St Peter's in Upper Riccarton and St Luke's in Yaldhurst.
A pub in a church might seem unusual, but then life in Christchurch after both the September and February earthquakes has been anything but normal.
An audio recording of Fr Dan Doyle's interview for the Church in the Quakes Project. The interview was conducted by Melissa Parsons on 31 October 2012. Doyle is a Catholic priest, formerly for the Parish of Rangiora. Currently he is a priest at St Anne's, Woolston.
As part of the future of Christchurch it is expected a third of all Catholic and almost half of all Presbyterian churches damaged in Christchurch's February earthquake might not be rebuilt.
The Anglican Church has been asked why it failed to carry out a detailed inspection of a building which partially collapsed, killing a Canadian tourist in Christchurch during the February earthquake.
A momentous day in Christchurch as a huge steel frame was installed as part of the stabilisation work for Christ Church Cathedral. Karyn speaks with project director Keith Paterson about the plans to return the famed rose window extensively damage in the 2011 earthquake.
Catholic priest Father John O'Connor is of a mind that religion is not about to become extinct in NZ, especially in light of how people responded to last month's Christchurch earthquake.
An audio recording of Tim and Sol O'Sullivan's interview for the Church in the Quakes Project. The interview was conducted by Melissa Parsons on 16 November 2012. At the time, Tim O'Sullivan was the Central Council President for St. Vincent de Paul Society in Christchurch. Sol O'Sullivan is a member of the Christchurch Filipino Society.
An architect and art historian is setting up an action group to oppose the demolition of one of the most well-known churches in Christchurch, the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament. The church, registered as a Category 1 building with Heritage New Zealand, was damaged in the 2011 earthquakes and has sat in a state of disrepair ever since. Dr Anna Crighton is from Historic Places Aotearoa. She talks to Susie Ferguson.
Moves towards returning the famed rose window to Christ Church Cathedral begin today. An eighteen-tonne steel frame is being installed onto the cathedral's west facade as part of restoration work. It will eventually housing the rose window. The cathedral was critically damaged in the Christchurch earthquake of 2011. Project director Keith Paterson is in Cathedral Square. He speaks to Susie Ferguson.
The Anglican church yesterday announced members of Canterbury's synod will now decide the earthquake damaged cathedral's future at its meeting in September.
Professor Andrew Barrie discusses an exhibition that comes up with ways to keep Christchurch communities together after the loss of so many earthquake damaged parish churches.
Anglican and Catholic churches will unite today, holding services with cathedral bells tolling throughout the country in remembrance of those who died in the Christchurch earthquake.
Christchurch's Cardboard Cathedral was designed as a temporary structure to fill the void left by the damage caused to Christ Church Cathedral in the 2011 earthquake.
Church bells will ring worldwide ring for Christchurch today as tens of thousands of people attend today's National memorial service for the victims for the Christchurch earthquake.
Church bells tolled around the country at exactly 12.51 this afternoon - one week on from the deadly Christchurch earthquake, which may have claimed as many as 240 lives.
Church bells toll and thousands stand in silence to commemorate the Christchurch earthquake. Petrol prices go up, but the quake damaged city is spared and what was found under a statue in Cathedral Square?