Features
Story of Isaac holds vital lessons
Friday 23 September 2016 | Published in Church Talk
GENESIS 27: 1 – 4 reads: “Now it came to pass, when Issac was old and his eyes were so dim that he could not see, that he called Esau his older son and said to him, “My son”. And he answered him, “Here I am”.
Pacific choir star of 'Moana' soundtrack
Monday 19 September 2016 | Published in Entertainment
THE UNIVERSITY of the South Pacific’s (USP) Pasifika Voices choir has secured the official contract of providing a choir for the soundtrack of the much-anticipated Disney animated movie, Moana.
All-conquering faith prevails
Friday 16 September 2016 | Published in Church Talk
GENESIS 21:1-7 NKJV reads: “And the Lord visited Sarah as He had said, and the Lord did for Sarah as He had spoken.
Captain Hanks thrills in Sully'
Tuesday 13 September 2016 | Published in Entertainment
TOM HANKS sure suits the military rank of captain.
Apii Avarua's oldest pupil looks back
Saturday 10 September 2016 | Written by Losirene Lacanivalu | Published in Features, Local, Memory Lane
AS APII Avarua counts down to its centennial celebration, bonfires and the flying of the British flag, the Union Jack is what the oldest surviving student of Apii Avarua recalls the most from her school days.
When prolonging life means causing even more suffering
Friday 9 September 2016 | Published in Church Talk
Kathryn Butler, MD, is a trauma and critical care surgeon who recently left clinical practice to home school her children. She teaches at Harvard Medical School, and has contributed to the literature on surgical critical care and medical education. She and her family live north of Boston in the US.
True story inspires War Dogs
Saturday 3 September 2016 | Written by Rashneel Kumar | Published in Entertainment
A WAR should theoretically end with a winner and a loser.
Teens say faith important
Friday 2 September 2016 | Published in Church Talk
A new American Bible Society study has found that practicing Protestant teenagers: those who identify as Protestant, attend church at least once a month, and say their faith is very important in their lives, and who read their Bible, do so the same amount all year long (73 per cent), much like all Bible-reading American teens (69 per cent).
Wheels fall off remake of epic action drama
Monday 29 August 2016 | Written by Rashneel Kumar | Published in Entertainment
THERE ARE only a few things that are a bit different about the 2016 epic historical action drama film Ben-Hur.
Science and the book of Genesis
Friday 26 August 2016 | Published in Church Talk
Occasionally you read headlines in the media such as, “Scientists admit Genesis is ‘close to the truth’.
Coco and Daisy in the South Pacific
Saturday 20 August 2016 | Published in Weekend
Xinling Gao (Coco), is a journalist with the Shanghai Morning Post in Shanghai, China. Recently she and her friend Daisy embarked on an adventure to follow their dreams, spending a year and a half travelling to Fiji, Kiribati, Samoa, New Zealand, the Cook Islands, and Australia. In the days following their visit to Rarotonga and Aitutaki, Coco wrote a story about their trip, which she kindly gave to CI News.
Feel good documentary a 'must-see'
Saturday 20 August 2016 | Written by Rashneel Kumar | Published in Entertainment
WHEN THE song Poi E was played somewhere at the beginning of the movie Poi E – The Story of Our Song, my mind raced back to a much earlier time.
How Palmerston beat Brazil to the Olympics
Saturday 20 August 2016 | Published in Weekend
The Games Organisation: Bury Andrew Marsters and I had to organise the Mini Olympics.
The 'religion' of evolution
Friday 19 August 2016 | Published in Church Talk
EVOLUTION is actually a religion.
Epic tale of Pete and his dragon
Saturday 13 August 2016 | Written by Rashneel Kumar | Published in Entertainment
IT’S BEEN a great week! Fiji won their first-ever Olympic medal, and it turned out to be gold, As a result, I have to say I indulged myself in pretty much opposite of everything my trainer would recommend.
Thomas Wynne: In honour of a young life lost
Saturday 13 August 2016 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Weekend
THE WAVES cupped the stern of the vaka, splashing over her as she ploughed through the vastness that is the blue haze of Moana O Kiva.
Olympic swimmer lives her faith
Friday 12 August 2016 | Published in Church Talk
FIRST-TIME US Olympian Madeline (Maya) DiRado has already earned a bunch of medals as part of the US swimming team at the Rio Olympics. She says it’s the “quiet confidence” of her Christian faith that allows her to be a grateful, joyful, and goal-oriented athlete, even at the highest levels of competition.
Medical science and the Bible
Friday 12 August 2016 | Published in Church Talk
ENCYCLOPEDIA Britannica documents that in 1845, a young doctor in Vienna named Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis was horrified at the terrible death rate of women who gave birth in hospitals.
Suicide Squad: Deadly in a good way
Saturday 6 August 2016 | Written by Rashneel Kumar | Published in Entertainment
IF THERE is anything “to die for” this weekend, it has to be the Suicide Squad, now screening at the Empire Cinema.
Story behind 'The Last Recruits'
Saturday 6 August 2016 | Published in Weekend
In 1915 Cook Islands men began signing up to fight in The Great War.
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