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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 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 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 ...
Public holidays in Fiji reflect the country's cultural diversity. Each major religion in Fiji has a public holiday dedicated to it. Also Fiji's major cities and towns hold annual carnivals, commonly called festivals, which are usually named for something relevant to the city or town, such as the Sugar Festival in Lautoka, as Lautoka's largest and most historically important industry is sugar ...
Fiji Week, 2005; G. Good Friday; H. ... Rotuma Day This page was last edited on 8 March 2024, at 20:31 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Earlier in the day, she had gone for midday prayer to another mosque, where congregants added the “Salat al-Istisqa," a prayer for rain rooted in the Islamic belief that God’s mercy provides sustenance. Community fundraising efforts have already started to rebuild, with donations surpassing $100,000 by Friday night.
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.
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