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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.
In the Southern Hemisphere, where January is a vacation time, churches often find other days to celebrate the week of prayer, for example around Pentecost (as originally suggested by the Faith and Order movement in 1926, [8] and Pope Leo XIII in 1894), [5] which is also a symbolic date for the unity of the church. [citation needed] The 2008 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
The church was built in 1858 by the Marist Fathers as a part of the Presbytery of the Sacred Heart Mission, in Levuka, which was the first historical capital of Fiji during British colonial rule. Fr. Jean-Baptiste Bréhéret served as the first priest of the church; the clock tower which is independent of the church was constructed to ...
The Suva Fiji Temple is the 91st operating temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). [3] [4] The intent to build the temple was announced on April 5, 1998, by church president Gordon B. Hinckley during the church's general conference. [5] The temple is the first to be built in Fiji. [6]