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Mark Durie (born 1958) is an Australian Anglican priest and a scholar in linguistics and theology. He is the founding director of the Institute for Spiritual Awareness, a Fellow at the Middle East Forum, and a senior research fellow of the Arthur Jeffery Centre for the Study of Islam at the Melbourne School of Theology.
Rātana Pā, or Ratana Community, [a] is a town in the North Island of New Zealand, near Whanganui and Marton in the Manawatū-Whanganui region. The locality was the farm of Tahupōtiki Wiremu Rātana, the founder of a Māori religious and political movement, and the settlement developed in the 1920s as followers came to see Rātana.
Science of Spirituality is a 501(c)(3) non‑profit organization [1] [2] [3] founded in 1979. The spiritual head of Science of Spirituality is Rajinder Singh. [4] He teaches meditation on the inner Light and Sound so people can experience for themselves the spiritual riches within. [5]
Three major rivers divide the region: the Whanganui (290 km [180 mi]), Manawatū (182 km [113 mi])), and Rangitīkei (241 km [150 mi]). The Whanganui is the second-longest river and has the second-largest catchment in the North Island, draining most of the inland region west of Lake Taupō. There are few roads in this area, which contains some ...
Then in 2012, YOTN IX was moved to the War Memorial Hall Convention Centre which seats 1500 people, where the conference was held until 2015. [ 3 ] Ben Hoyle resigned as YOTN director in 2018 and Youth of the Nation Trust & events were absorbed into the Fearless Movement of the Assemblies of God NZ under the leadership of Ps Mike Coe from Timaru .
The town was a major military centre during the New Zealand Wars of the 1860s, although local Māori at Pūtiki led by Te Keepa Te Rangihiwinui remained friendly to settlers. In 1871, a town bridge was built, [35] followed six years later by a railway bridge at Aramoho. [28] Wanganui was linked by rail to both New Plymouth and Wellington by 1886.
Sacred Heart College in the 1970s (now Cullinane College) St Johns Hill School is a co-educational state primary school for Year 1 to 6 students, [6] with a roll of 441 as of November 2024.
This is a list of marae (Māori meeting grounds) in the Manawatū-Whanganui region of New Zealand. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In October 2020, the Government committed $7,139,349 from the Provincial Growth Fund to upgrade 33 marae in the region, with the intention of creating 560.5 jobs.