Brian Tamaki is personally counselling the pastors linked to a scandal involving inappropriate conduct with foster children.

A man haunted by childhood memories of sexual abuse at a Catholic orphanage just wants someone to acknowledge there was wrongdoing.

Peter Lyons, a teacher at St Peter's College, writes that abuse scandals are a legacy of centuries of intolerance of critical self-analysis.

Abuse support groups say the investigations into the Catholic clergy abuse allegations are in the best interests of the church, not the victims.

An Auckland church says its Easter billboard was vandalised because of a disagreement over Jesus' knowledge of his own fate.

An war of words between the Catholic and Protestant churches culminated yesterday in an apology from the Archbishop of Canterbury.

An inner city Auckland church which made world headlines with its Christmas message has had its Easter billboard targeted by vandals.

St Matthew-in-the-City is pleased, but not surprised, at the ASA's ruling that its controversial Christmas billboard was not offensive.

An embattled Pope Benedict XVI is coming under mounting pressure to deal with the worsening child abuse scandal.

The son of a Destiny Church pastor has been charged with indecently assaulting a 13-year-old girl, who was placed in the care of a churchgoer by an organisation run by his mother.

An online auction listing for one of Brian Tamaki's covenant rings says the auction is an opportunity to own "a weird piece of New Zealand history".