Oliver LewisOliver Lewis

Oliver Lewis is a freelance journalist with a background in health and employment issues reporting.

The dramatically modern church building that’s dividing historic Arrowtown

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Its name and design are meant to evoke peace and reconciliation, but the proposed Olive Leaf building in historic Arrowtown has instead stoked division, backlash and now court action. Oliver Lewis reports. When the Eiffel Tower was proposed in Paris, a group of artists and writers lodged a petition of protest bemoaning it as a … Read more

The mystery of the holy relics buried in a steel box beneath a Christchurch basilica

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Under a thick layer of concrete at the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament in Christchurch is a metal box likely containing hundreds of holy relics – a historical treasure trove set to be uncovered after 50 years of near total obscurity. As the earth shook and buildings crumbled, a statue of the Virgin Mary in … Read more