: By Jody O’Callaghan – Stuff – 30/04/2015 A call to close Gloriavale’s school over concerns of oppression has been rejected by West Coast MP Damien O’Connor. An educational researcher has criticised Gloriavale Christian Community School for depriving young people of their human rights, and said it should be closed. Quality…
: By Patrice Dougan – NZ Herald – 24/04/2015 Sociologist who visited Christian community saw people treated well and no evidence of subjugation. A sociologist has given a rare glimpse of what life is like on the inside of the secretive Gloriavale Christian Community. Andrew Sepie, of the University of Canterbury,…
: By Parice Dougan, Nicholas McBride – NZ Herald – 22/04/2015 Join me on the outside, the world’s not the evil place you imagine, says former member of community. A young woman who fled the secretive Gloriavale Christian Community has urged the family she left behind to join her in the…
: NZ Herald – 22/04/2015 A professor who says Gloriavale tried converting him as a boy says the secretive community is feeling “tremors” after the well-publicised departure of several members in recent months. Gloriavale’s leaders want to close a public road near their Haupiri, West Coast compound, claiming community members were…
: By Patrice Dougan – NZ Herald – 22/04/2015 A young woman who left the secretive Gloriavale Christian Community says she was the victim of a “wrong relationship” with an adult married man when she was just a child. Such relationships were not unheard of during her 19 years living in…
: By Nicholas McBride – 21/04/2015 The Gloriavale Christian Community wants a public road near its compound closed to prevent attacks from outsiders. The community says the proposed Heaphy Road closure is not aimed at limiting access to hunters, but to prevent vandalism, including spilling of milk and deer being let…
: By Patrice Dougan, Sophie Ryan – NZ Herald – 21/04/2015 In a 2015 interview, a banished member says most of Gloriavale community unaware of leader’s past A lecturer in theology at the University of Auckland said many of the core beliefs of Gloriavale were similar to evangelical Christian groups, but…
: By Scott Yeoman – NZ Herald – 20/04/2015 Two young couples who quit the Gloriavale Christian Community have revealed what it was like living in the West Coast religious community, and why they left. Rosanna Overcomer and her husband Elijah spoke of the lives they had while under the rule…
: By Laura Mills – 17/04/2015 Two families who defied their Gloriavale leaders to leave will tell their story to the nation on the television news show Sunday. In preview material for this weekend’s show, TVNZ says the families were told the world outside the Gloriavale Christian Community at Lake Haupiri,…
