From 14 to 16 March 2025, the New Zealand Catholic Bishops Committee for Interfaith Relations (NZCBCIR) met in Auckland.
Every diocese in Aotearoa New Zealand has one representative on this Committee who is also member of the local Interfaith Council which is made up of representatives from different religious traditions.
Bishop Michael Dooley from Dunedin liaises with the New Zealand Catholic Bishops’ Conference.
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Part of the programme was a meeting with the members of the Auckland Inter-Faith Council. See below some pictures of the event. More pictures will be available here soon.

Quote from Pope Francis (Evangelii Gaudium, 250. 2013):
Interreligious dialogue is a necessary condition for peace in the world, and so it is a duty for Christians as well as other religious communities. This dialogue is in first place a conversation about human existence or simply, as the bishops of India have put it, a matter of ‘being open to them, sharing their joys and sorrows’.”