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Last week’s TVNZ three-part documentary on Gloriavale, Escaping Utopia, was compelling and shocking.

Incendiary language Please let’s not have incendiary language around separate study rooms for Pasifika and Māori students . The Ku Klux Klan’s beliefs and...

A lawyer says she has written to the Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment and police who are taking the allegations "very seriously".

Controversial West Coast religious community Gloriavale has seen income slump as it grapples with legal challenges ranging from its school operations and...

Living in isolation in a closeted community has given members of the Gloriavale Christian sect an accent that is “unique and distinct”, a linguistic expert

Four agencies are being accused of knowingly allowing abuse to happen at the community.

The Gloriavale offshoot in India is home to Kiwi women and children. A former member of the sect says getting them out of there is urgent

In a covert visit captured by Escaping Utopia , two former members of Gloriavale – accompanied by an undercover camera crew – go inside the gates of the...

By Jean Edwards of RNZ Four government agencies are being accused of knowingly allowing abuse to happen at Gloriavale, in High Court action brought by a...

Four government agencies are being accused of knowingly allowing abuse to happen at Gloriavale, in High Court action brought by a leavers’ lawyer who descr