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Faith in New Zealand

We have a growing multicultural population and a huge diversity of faiths here in New Zealand. Coupled with this is a growing need for religious leaders specific to these faiths that can serve these communities.

Immigration New Zealand has made recent changes affecting our Pan-Asian communities. Lynda Chanwai-Earle talked to Paul Bayliss, general manager of the Catholic Archdiocese of Wellington and Joan Buchanan, convenor, Religious Communities Leadership Forum to find out more.

Paul Bayliss, General manager, Archdiocese, Wellington and Joan Buchanan, Convenor, Religious Communities Leadership Forum at the Catholic Archdiocese of Wellington.

Sacred Heart School and the Catholic Centre, Wellington

A family makes offerings of milk and rice at the aarti or lamp-like alter, Hindu Temple Auckland.

A family queue to make offerings, or naivedya, to the deities.

A monk (in orange robes) presides over prayers at the Swaminarayan Hindu Temple, Auckland.

Reciting the Guru Granth Sahib or Holy Scriptures

Praying to the holy scriptures (under the yellow cloth).

Women at evening prayers.

Venerable Manwang and Lynda.

Venerable Manwang at the Fo Guang Shan Buddist Order, Howick, inside the temple to Buddha.

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