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Articles, Audio, Legal: Girls' Employment Case

Brian Henry: lawyer for former Gloriavale women says the community programmed these women for slavery from birth

July 13, 2023: Heather du Plessis-Allan | NewstalkZB | Description: An employment court has vindicated six former Gloriavale women – who today won their employment court battle. These women claimed they were exploited and treated like slaves while they worked on domestic tasks for the community, including preparing food, cooking, cleaning and doing…

Articles, Audio, Legal: Girls' Employment Case, Videos

‘They lived in fear’: Lawyer on court ruling that Gloriavale women were employees: RNZ

July 13, 2023: Lisa Owen |RNZ Checkpoint| “Relieved and vindicated” That’s the response of six former Gloriavale women found by the court to be employees. Serenity Pilgrim, Anna Courage, Rose Standtrue, Crystal Loyal, Pearl Valor and Virginia Courage took leaders of the christian community to the Employment court arguing they lived in servitude…

Audio, Cults and Sects

Let’s Talk About Sects: Rosanna Overcomer Interview

May 3, 2023: Rosanna Overcomer | Podcast | Gloriavale Christian Community has been in the news recently in New Zealand for court cases around labour and servitude, and there are further cases happening as well. To understand more about the history of the organisation, you can listen to our 2-part episode about the group.…

Audio, Gloriavale Film/Docuseries, Videos

Filmmaker Noel Smyth Lifts The Lid On Gloriavale | Studio 10

November 3, 2022: Studio 10 Gloriavale Christian Community is surrounded by secrecy and controversy. Now a new documentary from acclaimed filmmaker Noel Smyth is lifting the lid on the elusive group. IG @noelsmythfilm View: Filmmaker Noel Smyth Lifts The Lid On Gloriavale …

Articles, Audio

Ex Gloriavale member – “It almost seems like what he’s done is maybe not that bad”

November 2, 2022: Tova O’Brien | Today FM | A Gloriavale man charged with sexual offences against five children has had his jail sentence reduced. Timothy Disciple has lost his name suppression – but he’s also had eight months shaved off of his prison term under an appeal – with a judge citing…

Articles, Audio, Gloriavale Film/Docuseries

‘People Being Programmed’: Inside New Zealand’s Gloriavale Religious Cult

November 1, 2022: By Julie Fenwick | VICE | “You’re reared in those thoughts where it’s like ‘I owe the system something’… ‘Actually: I owe them my life’.” In Haupiri, on the West Coast of New Zealand’s South Island, live close to 600 people, crammed in bunk beds and shared living quarters with little…

Articles, Audio, Gloriavale Film/Docuseries

Let’s Talk About Sects – Interview Episode: Gloriavale with Noel Smyth & Fergus Grady

October 19, 2022: By Sarah Steele – Let’s Talk About Sects – 19/10/2022 When widespread abuse is uncovered at a New Zealand cult, a family must turn to the legal system in an effort to save themselves and their community from the all-powerful leaders. Filmmakers Noel Smyth and Fergus Grady documented the impact…

Articles, Audio

RN Drive – The secrets inside Gloriavale

October 17, 2022: RN Drive, ABC, Sky Kirkham, Producer – 17/10/2022 Founded in New Zealand at the end of the 1960s by an Australian preacher, the Gloriavale Christian Community is home to around 600 people. Led by a small group of ‘shepherds’, members are isolated from outside society and ex-communication means exile from…

Articles, Audio, Royal Commission

Gloriavale’s top leader promises ‘no more abuse’ at the West Coast cult

October 13, 2022: By Joanne Naish and Katie Doyle | Stuff | The leader of Gloriavale has vowed that there will be “no more abuse” at the secretive West Coast Christian community but denied that its doctrines had allowed it to flourish in the past. Gloriavale’s overseeing shepherd, Howard Temple, has been answering…

Articles, Audio, Royal Commission

Head of Gloriavale admits past abuse in religious community

October 13, 2022: By Jayden Holmes | Today FM | The head of Gloriavale has admitted abuse happened at the religious community. Howard Temple is making a rare public appearance at the inquiry into abuse in care and faith-based institutions. He was questioned about an incident where a man was accused of sexual…

Brian Henry: lawyer for former Gloriavale women says the community programmed these women for slavery from birth

‘They lived in fear’: Lawyer on court ruling that Gloriavale women were employees: RNZ

Let’s Talk About Sects: Rosanna Overcomer Interview

Filmmaker Noel Smyth Lifts The Lid On Gloriavale | Studio 10

Ex Gloriavale member – “It almost seems like what he’s done is maybe not that bad”

‘People Being Programmed’: Inside New Zealand’s Gloriavale Religious Cult

Let’s Talk About Sects – Interview Episode: Gloriavale with Noel Smyth & Fergus Grady

RN Drive – The secrets inside Gloriavale

Gloriavale’s top leader promises ‘no more abuse’ at the West Coast cult

Head of Gloriavale admits past abuse in religious community

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