27Dec 2025 by Yujin Kim
SGINZ participates in vigil for victims of the Bondi Beach shooting

SGINZ participates in vigil for victims of the Bondi Beach shooting

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On 20 December 2025, SGINZ joined other faith and community groups, the Ministry for Ethnic Communities and the Australian High Commission in an interfaith vigil in Wellington for the victims of the terror attack that took place in Bondi, Sydney.   Jimi Wallace, on behalf of Soka Gakkai International New Zealand (SGINZ), expressed his deepest condolences for the loss of lives and recited the ‘Life Span’ chapter of the Lotus Sutra offering prayers to the victims, their families and those recovering.  Buddhist teachings emphasise the sacredness and preciousness of life.   Soka Gakkai International New Zealand absolutely condemns any form of violence  or terrorism, not only that perpetrated in the name of religion.  Following the 11 September 2001 attacks against the United States, in which SGI members and friends were among the victims, our mentor SGI President Daisaku Ikeda wrote: “It…
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14Jun 2018 by Yujin Kim

Tūmanako 2018

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This year is looking like it will be bigger and better Tūmanako exhibitions than ever. HERE'S THE INFORMATION For information on the Auckland event below (more…)
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14Jun 2017 by Yujin Kim

BAN TREATY OFFERS CHANCE FOR A WORLD FREE OF NUCLEAR ARMS

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SPECIAL TO THE JAPAN TIMES The crucial second round of negotiations on a treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons will take place from June 15 at the United Nations headquarters in New York. Almost 130 countries, or two thirds of U.N. member states, participated in the first round of negotiations held at the end of March, which became the site of vigorous debate with the active participation of civil society. Nuclear weapons are capable of annihilating humankind and the global ecosystem, and the threat they pose is, if anything, growing. The upcoming negotiations seek to achieve a fundamental breakthrough in this situation. “We hibakusha have no doubt that this treaty can — and will — change the world.” This statement made by an atomic bomb survivor at the March negotiations was…
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