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Gloriavale Drilling

July 12, 2014: | Bay of Plenty Times | Press Reader|Page 23 A company owned by the Gloriavale Christian Community, on the West Coast, expects to drill a new oil well this spring with a rig that has recently arrived from Korea. Ocean Harvest International Ltd (OHIL), is planning the new well on…

Articles, Videos

Gloriavale children of springbank 1987

March 2, 2014: | YouTube | Peter T | In a remote part of the West Coast inland from Greymouth is a farm called Gloriavale. It’s a multi-faceted farm business that supports a community in excess of 500 people. The group began with about 30 people meeting in a hall in Rangiora in…

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Dairy Exporter – Discipline and work reward faith-based community

February 1, 2011: By Anne Lee – Dairy Exporter – 01/02/2011 A reclusive religious group which moved to the West Coast bush from North Canterbury 20 years ago has carved out an impressive dairying enterprise to support its self-contained community of 450, Anne Lee reports. They may shun the trappings of the modern…

Articles, Audio

Gloriavale Christian Community

February 26, 2010: Country Life | RNZ |Host: Cosmo Kentish-Barnes The community’s become one of the largest contributors to the West Coast economy and is based on a 1700-hectare inland farm where nearly 500 people live in relative seclusion. Listen to the audio: Gloriavale Christian Community…

Articles, Cults and Sects, Daily Vale

Shops pressured to remove cult book

April 24, 2009: | Otago Daily Times | Members of a religious cult on the West Coast appear to have pressured at least one local store into pulling a book from their shelves that argues their leader is a manipulative sexual deviant. The book, Sins of the Father, tells the story of Phil Cooper…

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Father tells of rescuing kids from West Coast cult

April 23, 2009: | NZ Herald | Rebecca Quilliam | For hundreds of people living in a cut-off community called Gloriavale on the West Coast, Neville Cooper speaks the word of God. For his son Phil, Neville Cooper was a controlling, manipulative, sexual deviant who set out to dominate every aspect of his…

Articles, Audio

Feature guests – Phil and Israel Cooper

April 16, 2009: | RNZ | Nine to Noon | Interview with Father and son who escaped from the Cooperites sect.…

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Dad reaches out to sect child

April 1, 2009: | NZ Herald | Anna Leask | A New Zealand father of six is desperate to give a 16-year-old daughter he has never met the chance of life outside a religious sect that still has his former wife in its grasp. Phil Cooper escaped the sect, a Christian community set…

Articles, Education

Indian student in NZ being sent back

October 16, 2006: | Hindustan Times | Indo-Asian News Service | Venkata Siva was sponsored by the Gloriavale Christian community to study English and Agriculture. An Indian student in Greymouth, New Zealand, is being sent back to India after he fell out with a commune that supported his visit. Venkata Siva Rayavarapu, 22,…

Gloriavale Drilling

Gloriavale children of springbank 1987

Dairy Exporter – Discipline and work reward faith-based community

Gloriavale Christian Community

Shops pressured to remove cult book

Father tells of rescuing kids from West Coast cult

Feature guests – Phil and Israel Cooper

Dad reaches out to sect child

Indian student in NZ being sent back

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