New Zealand rejects Anglican Covenant

Taonga News
18 Apr 2011

The central North Island hui amorangi (Maori diocese) of Te Manawa o Te Wheke has become the first New Zealand episcopal unit to formally give the thumbs-down to the proposed Anglican covenant.

It has rejected the covenant not so much because of the presenting issues, but because it sees the covenant as a threat to Maori rangatiratanga (sovereignty).

It believes the church in Aotearoa New Zealand should place greater priority on working for the fulfilment of the promises made to Maori in 1840 when New Zealand’s founding document, the Treaty of Waitangi, was signed. the rest