{"id":1048,"date":"2017-02-12T14:21:07","date_gmt":"2017-02-12T02:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familyfednz.org\/?p=1048"},"modified":"2017-02-12T14:21:07","modified_gmt":"2017-02-12T02:21:07","slug":"un-interfaith-harmony-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upinstantly.com\/index.php\/2017\/02\/12\/un-interfaith-harmony-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Interfaith Harmony 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\nOn 11<sup>th<\/sup> Febuary 2017 the UPF-NZ chapter held an event to commemorate the United Nations Interfaith Harmony week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The event was to visit to 3 centres worship around Auckland city, and have the hosts at each venue share their vision of interfaith and how it applied to their activities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We invited our network of Ambassadors for Peace &amp; friends to join our touring group, this gave them an experience of Interfaith in action.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The places of worship were very diverse, Christian Presbyterian, Buddhist Soka Gakkai, and Sikh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Like many developed countries, New Zealand has become very multicultural so the necessity of Interfaith and Intercultural understanding is very essential to promote friendship and harmony.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Our group was very warmly received at each venue. Speakers shared their faiths vision and activities and how they felt they were making a contribution to their communities.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; Photos courtesy of <a style=\"color: blue;\" href=\"mailto:rovan@actrix.co.nz\">Barry Noel<\/a>; &nbsp; Written by Geoffrey Fyers<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 11th Febuary 2017 the UPF-NZ chapter held an event to commemorate the United Nations Interfaith Harmony week. The event was to visit to 3 centres worship around Auckland city, and have the hosts at each venue share their vision of interfaith and how it applied to their activities. We invited our network of Ambassadors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-un-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upinstantly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upinstantly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upinstantly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upinstantly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upinstantly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/upinstantly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upinstantly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upinstantly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upinstantly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upinstantly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}