Baha’i Sacred Space 2025
Sacred Spaces 2025
Category: Events
Relationships in a Multi-Faith World
In August 2025, the AIFC organised another successful event in their Dialogue & Learning Series. The title of the series reflects the setting: a keynote speaker sets the scene, and then there is plenty of time for dialogue which certainly leads to learning.
The guest speaker, Elena Villafana Sylvester, grew up in Trinidad, in a family with several faiths and their specific cultural traditions. While it was enriching in some ways, it also had its challenges.
Read the full article here.
Interfaith Creek Clean-Up
All our Faiths share a deep concern for the environment, and particularly for clean waters. Today, we had a great turn-out at our Creek Clean-up in Whenuapai. About 70 people of different age groups and different religions came together and pulled tires, car parts and many bottles out of the creek and the surrounding bush.
See an article by Beate Matthies here.
Sacred Spaces 2024
The Auckland Inter-Faith Council connected their series “Exploring Sacred Spaces” with the annual Auckland Heritage Festival and their theme for the year: Moana Oceania.
All 5 visits to different places of worship related to the Pacific. Some faith groups have a
considerable number of members who are of Pasifika descent, others have grown through members who have lived in the Pacific for decades and even generations, and therefore call Oceania their home.
The visits were organised by members of the Auckland Inter-Faith Council of the respective faith in cooperation with the local hosts. This report is also meant as a sign of gratitude to the local hosts who made the visits possible.
Please click on the individual posters to read the reports and see pictures of these events.
“Diverse Faiths in New Zealand: Challenges & Opportunities”
Our first AIFC event of the series Dialogue and Learning was very successful: about 60 people of several different faiths joined us to listen to Prof. emeritus Peter Lineham and to discuss, share and connect with each other.
While we are living in a hard time for Inter-Faith Talking, it is also a very important and a crucial time to get to know one another and build bridges between people of different faiths…
Exploring Sacred Spaces
Please click on the posters to see some pictures
Please click on the posters to see some pictures
