Tag: Mosque massacre
New Zealander’s image of togetherness chosen for Time magazine
By Tim Miller of the Otago Daily Times
A former Dunedin artist has been chosen to illustrate the cover of Time magazine's international edition for...
Dear PM: ‘It breaks my heart that a sense of belonging...
Summer Joyan's open letter to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern:
Dear Prime Minister Ardern,
I am a 13-year-old Muslim girl from Australia and I would like to...
Rugby star Sonny Bill: ‘People don’t know what Islam is’
By RNZ News
All Black and devout Muslim Sonny Bill Williams hopes New Zealanders will embrace Islam more in light of last week's terror attack...
Former PMW reporter talks to SA media on mosque massacre
Rahul Bhattarai talks to eNCA News of South Africa live from New Zealand. Video: eNCA News
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Former Pacific Media Watch project reporter...
NZ marks call to prayer, two-minute silence to honour mosque dead
By RNZ News
New Zealand today observed the Muslim call to prayer and two minutes of silence in Christchurch and across the country, one week...
How to move beyond simplistic debates that demonise Islam
By Professor Edwina Pio
New Zealand is a religiously and ethnically diverse country with an almost negligible global terrorism index. Muslims have lived in New...
AUT students: ‘We want to stay as a country, unified, always’
By Michael Andrew
Muslim students at Auckland University of Technology have praised the gestures of kindness they have received from fellow students and the New...
NZ bans military-style semi-automatic weapons and assault rifles
By RNZ News
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern today announced a New Zealand ban on all military-style semi-automatic weapons and all assault rifles
She pledged the day...
18,000 at Dunedin vigil to remember terror attack victims
By RNZ News
A Muslim leader has told a crowd of 18,000 at a vigil in the South Island city of Dunedin this evening the...
Four lessons we must take away from the Christchurch terror attack
By Dr Joe Burton in Hamilton
In the aftermath of the tragic loss of life in Christchurch last Friday, the focus needs to be on...
All New Zealand asked Trump for was ‘love’ for Muslims
Stephen Colbert's satirical programme The Late Show featured NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's exchange with US President Donald Trump. Video: CBS The Late Show
Pacific...
Christchurch terror shooting: First victims buried, calls for unity
By RNZ News
As the police worked to release victims' bodies to families by tonight, the first were buried this afternoon.
Father and son, 44-year-old Khaled...
Online hate speech ‘gives green light’ to religion, race attacks
By Michael Andrew
Religion and race-based attacks will continue as a result of the rise of online hate speech, says a leading New Zealand academic.
Professor...
Gunman arrested ‘within 21 minutes’ and saved lives, says police chief
By RNZ
Police Commissioner Mike Bush says police knew where the suspect from the Christchurch mosque attacks was going after the New Zealand shootings and...
Thousands of NZers share messages of hope for Muslim whānau
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Thousands of New Zealanders have shared messages of hope and support for the Muslim whānau (community) in Christchurch and across the...
‘He is a terrorist – and nameless’, PM Jacinda Ardern declares...
NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has vowed she will never mention the name of the man accused of killing at least 50 people in...
NZ’s Tongan community supports Muslim families
By Barbara Dreaver, 1 NEWS Pacific correspondent
Tongan community leaders have called for their people living in New Zealand to wear black this week as...
Christchurch terrorism attacks: NZ’s darkest hour – Friday, March 15, 2019
Selwyn Manning, editor of Evening Report, profiles the Christchurch atrocity that has outraged and shaken a peaceful South Pacific nation.
Out of the blue:
It was...
Christchurch terror attacks: NZ advertisers to pull social media ads
By RNZ
More than 50 New Zealand companies are considering pulling ads from Facebook because it allowed a livestream of the Christchurch massacre last Friday.
Some...
NZ ‘chose us to come here … to die here’, says...
By Katy Gosset of RNZ
A Syrian-born woman whose husband and son were killed in Friday's terror attacks says her family was told New Zealand...
Fiji community shaken with loss of three in Christchurch mosque attacks
By Johnny Blades of RNZ Pacific
New Zealand's Fijian community is reeling after three people from Fiji were killed in Friday's mosque attacks in Christchurch.
The...