: By Jehan Casinada (Sunday Star Times) – 03/05/2015 A new Gloriavale is taking shape, far from the West Coast. Hopeful Christian and other senior Gloriavale leaders have travelled to the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, where they are building a new faith-based township in Tirunelveli. “It’s called the Christian Church…
: By: Ashleigh Stewart – 01/05/2015 Gloriavale’s men are “groomed” to have sex with underage girls and should not shoulder the blame, the granddaughter of the commune’s leader says. Another former member has revealed that girls who put on weight were verbally abused and forced to fast. Read more here: https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/68166569/men-groomed-to-have-underage-sex-in-gloriavale-ex-member-says…
: By Jody O’Callaghan | Stuff | 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 Public…
: | NZ Herald | Patrice Dougan | 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, who…
: | NZ Herald | Nicholas McBride | The Grey District Council has refused to enter into a public debate about a plan to close a road near the Gloriavale Christian Community, as the issue heads to the Environment Court. In a statement today, West Coast Fish and Game manager Dean…
: | NZ Herald | Sophie Ryan | Secretive religious community’s profit for year to last July more than $1.86m but it’s a tax-exempt charity. The secretive Gloriavale religious community owns assets worth $36.6 million, including a dairy farm, deer enterprise and an aircraft repair firm. The tax-exempt charity operating as…
: 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…
