Category Archives: Religion

Kathleen Hall

Her longstanding support of China and its people was significant in a period when many New Zealanders had little understanding of events there.

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Mary Campbell

Mary Campbell’s life was devoted to education in its widest sense. She sought to be informed, to empathise with people and to seek fair and equitable solutions to social and personal problems. Her home was a haven for those in need of hospitality.

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Mary Simpson

Mary Simpson was a religious healer and teacher who was largely responsible for establishing the Christian Science church in New Zealand. A strong – some would say autocratic – spiritual leader, she later founded and led a breakaway group known as the Divine Science Fellowship.

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