{"id":7724,"date":"2009-05-18T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/05\/18\/first-new-zealand-hindu-youth-conference\/"},"modified":"2009-05-18T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T12:00:00","slug":"first-new-zealand-hindu-youth-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/05\/18\/first-new-zealand-hindu-youth-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"First New Zealand Hindu Youth Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"mailto:indu.nz@gmail.com\">indu.nz@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND, May 2, 2009: The first New Zealand Hindu Youth Conference, &#8220;Living in Modern New Zealand with Traditional Values,&#8221; was held May 2, 2009 in Mangere, Auckland. The conference was organized by the Hindu Youth Foundation, a division of the Hindu Council of New Zealand Inc, with enthusiastic support from the Hindu Elders Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Over 130 delegates, including six parliamentarians, participated in the conference. All were welcomed in the traditional Hindu way by placing a tilak on their forehead, and the conference started with lighting of the lamps by special guests. Maori elder Haare Williams blessed the conference with a Maori karakia (prayer and blessing) and Swami Vigyananand blessed the occasion with a Vedic prayer.<\/p>\n<p>Speeches given by youth leaders Meena Lakshmanan, Nikita Sharma and Deepal Singh drew enthusiastic applause. Meena Lakshmanan pointed out that in terms of youth power &#8220;Hindu civilization is the youngest!&#8221; because 700 million Hindus are below the age of 35, 560 million are under 25, 350 million are under 19, and 250 million are under 14.<\/p>\n<p>Workshops and youth meetings were held. In addition, the dynamic participants launched the New Zealand Hindu Students Forum, for university students. <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>indu.nz@gmail.com AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND, May 2, 2009: The first New Zealand Hindu Youth Conference, &#8220;Living in Modern New Zealand with,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}