Destiny TV may have lost its weekday morning slot on TV2, but the programme's producers have vowed to find a way to keep Destiny Church leader Brian Tamaki on air.

Destiny TV may have lost its weekday morning slot on TV2, but the programme's producers have vowed to find a way to keep Destiny Church leader Brian Tamaki on air.

Destiny New Zealand sees latest political opinion poll as an encouraging start to its political future

In four years Destiny church will rule New Zealand, according to its charismatic founder pastor Brian Tamaki.

Brian Tamaki offered me a husband and a beer, and a perch on a pew. He thought I'd enjoy one of his church services. Two of these offers were a joke.

Destiny Church scrapped a public protest haka in Tauranga yesterday because of fears it would upset people.

We all need to feel like we belong. If society excludes groups there will always be movements, under a range of emblems and banners, that will emerge, orc-like, from the slime of our deepest fears to provide that sense of belonging.

The Destiny Church's first birthday has been marked by a protest accusing it of homophobia.

Destiny New Zealand is more silly than sinister. The huffing and strutting, the black uniforms and the vaguely threatening tone of its demonstration outside parliament will win only a tiny number of supporters. Its simple-minded religiosity will embarrass most Christians. And its narrowness and bigotry are out of tune with the mainstream, which on sexual matters is notably tolerant.

An elderly couple who lent Brian Tamaki the money that helped him start his Destiny Church empire say the funds were "hijacked" and they had given up hope of ever retrieving the full amount.

The Christian-dominated United Future party appears to have become an early beneficiary of the Destiny Church's sudden appearance on the political scene.

Morals campaigner Pastor Brian Tamaki has allowed a man who destroyed his own family with adultery into a senior Destiny Church position, says the man's daughter-in-law.

The Destiny Church, Pastor Brian Tamaki and his legion of Christian soldiers do not represent middle, majority New Zealand.

The Destiny Church rally at Parliament against the Civil Union Bill this week conjured up deeply uncomfortable memories and implications for some spectators, writes The Press in an editorial.

Anti-homophobia posters hanging at Wellington High School have been ripped off the walls by Destiny Church members, students claim.

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