1News – Govt action needed at Gloriavale to ensure change – leaver

June 13, 2022: 1News – Breakfast – 13/06/2022 A Gloriavale leaver says greater agency involvement is needed to ensure there is meaningful change within the tight knit, secretive West Coast community. Gloriavale has come under fire in recent years amid allegations of serious misconduct, including – but not limited to – labour exploitation…

1News – Gloriavale rewriting document that gives husbands control over wives

June 13, 2022: By Ryan Boswell – 1News – 13/06/2022 Gloriavale’s leadership is rewriting a controversial document that gives husbands complete control over their wives. TVNZ’s Sunday programme has highlighted the pledge members make when they join the West Coast commune, which includes losing the right to say “no” to sex in marriage.…

Leaving Gloriavale – Sunday

June 12, 2022: TVOne- Sunday – Leaving Gloriavale Leaving Gloriavale means leaving your home, your family, maybe everything you’ve ever known. Then heading, with little or no money, into a world you’ve been told is damned. But sometimes you have no choice, because you’ve started questioning the leaders. The tight-knit, secretive Christian community…

Maori Television – ‘Evil, cannibalistic and demonic’ – Gloriavale’s view of Māori revealed

June 2, 2022: By Stefan Dimitrof – Maori Television – 02/06/2022 Former Gloriavale resident Constance Ready is healing from her time with the Gloriavale religious sect by finding joy in reconnecting with her Māori roots. Ready talked about growing up at Gloriavale and explained why she left at a recent Real Talk event…

1News – Gloriavale: Calls for more leaders to stand down

June 1, 2022: By Ryan Boswell – 1News – 01/06/2022 Five members of Gloriavale’s leadership team have left in the last two years, and there are calls for more to stand down. Fervent Stedfast and Faithful Pilgrim on Tuesday resigned as shepherds in the West Coast commune. Stedfast was accused of failing to…

Newshub – Former Gloriavale residents sceptical over leaders’ ‘unprecedented’ apology about sexual abuse and worker exploitation

May 27, 2022: Michael Morrah – Newshub – 27/05/2022 Gloriavale’s leaders have issued an unprecedented apology – but it’s been met with caution from former residents. They wrote a letter admitting they failed to protect victims of sexual abuse and labour exploitation, and they’re promising change. Gloriavale’s known for conducting its affairs privately.…

RNZ / Newshub – Gloriavale leaders apologise over sex abuse and exploitation failures

May 27, 2022: RNZ – 27/05/2022 Gloriavale’s leaders have offered a public apology for failing to protect victims of labour exploitation and sexual abuse. The apology comes in the wake of multiple scandals surrounding the reclusive West Coast Christian sect. Just this week Silver Fern Farms pulled out of commercial agreements with the…

NZ Herald – Gloriavale – Zion Pilgrim’s story on leaving the Christian Community

May 14, 2022: NZ Herald – Hope Project – 14/05/2022 Zion Pilgrim had spent all his life living at Gloriavale on the South Island’s West Coast. It was the only life he knew growing up. But in 2020 he left Gloriavale after questioning the leadership, a decision he doesn’t regret. It was, according…