Gloriavale appeal allowed

May 3, 2024: | Greymouth Star | Gloriavale Christian Community has been granted permission to appeal an Employment Court ruling that found girls were employees and entitled to minimum entitlements. Last year, the court ruled that six former Gloriavale women had actually been employees working under punishing conditions for years on end at…

Gloriavale History

April 28, 2024: | WRSP | Peter Lineham | A timeline and history of the Gloriavale Community, researched by Peter LIneham. Peter Lineham has for many years written and lectured extensively on the religious history of New Zealand, although his earliest work, still continuing, was on the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century history of British…

Inquiry into Gloriavale’s India sect

April 24, 2024: | Greymouth Star | Laura Mills | A cross-agency group is working to establish facts about the Gloriavale Christian Community’s outpost in India. In the recent TVNZ ‘docuseries’, Escaping Utopia, former Gloriavale members Theophila Pratt and Rosanna Overcomer travelled to India and met with Mr Pratt’s sister Precious. Precious moved…

Gloriavale’s revenue drops $12m in a year, assets top $46m

April 19, 2024: | The Press | Joanne Naish | The trust behind the remote Gloriavale Christian Community took a $12 million revenue hit last year, but its net assets remain stable at $46m. The West Coast religious community has come under fire in recent years after court findings of sexual and physical abuse,…