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Fiji Week is a week of festivities culminating in Fiji Day [1] on 10 October (the anniversary of Fiji's independence from British colonial rule in 1970) annually. [2] A different theme is chosen every year, but common elements include religious ceremonies and cultural performances. The preceding week to Fiji Day is called Fiji Week.
Fiji Week celebrations commenced on 7 October 2005, and culminated with Fiji Day on 10 October, [1] the 35th anniversary of Fiji's independence from British colonial rule. [2] [1] The official program focused on national reconciliation and healing. [1] It culminated with a day of prayer and fasting on Fiji Day.
Fiji Week was a week of prayer meetings and multicultural programmes that took place the week of 4–11 October 2004. Organized at a cost of US$410,000 by a multiracial national committee chaired by the Prime Minister, Laisenia Qarase, Fiji Week was intended to foster reconciliation among Fiji's diverse ethnic communities, especially native Fijians and Indo-Fijians, whose mutual rivalry for ...
The anniversary of both Fiji's cession to the United Kingdom in 1874 and attainment of independence in 1970. The week leading up to Fiji Day, Fiji Week, features seven days of religious and cultural ceremonies celebrating the country's diversity. October/November: Diwali: Hindu "Festival of Lights", honours Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth and ...
While Pope Pius V reduced the amount of octaves in 1568, [1] these were still numerous. Not only on the eighth day from the feast but, with the exception of the octaves of Easter, Pentecost, and, to a lesser extent, Christmas, on all the intervening days the liturgy was the same as on the feast day itself, with the exact same prayers and Scripture readings.
Tim Bayliss-Smith, Brian Robson, David Ley, Derek Gregory (eds), Islands, Islanders and the World: The Colonial and Post-Colonial Experience of Eastern Fiji, pp. 47—51. Details on Matanitu, Yavusa and other aspects of Fijian social structure. Karen J. Brison, Our Wealth Is Loving Each Other: Self and Society in Fiji.
A former TD Bank employee based in Florida was arrested and charged with facilitating money laundering to Colombia, New Jersey's attorney general said on Wednesday, in the first such arrest since ...
The 2008 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity was celebrated as the centennial. For 2012, 1 Corinthians 15:51 was chosen with the theme "We will all be changed". [9] The 2016 Week was provided by the Churches of Latvia, [10] and the theme was that all Christians are 'Called to proclaim the mighty acts of the Lord' (indirectly referring to 1 Peter ...