On thursday June 12 Monte Ohia died suddenly in his home town Christchurch in New Zealand(Aotearoa in Maori language). Monte became 62 years. Monte Ohia was a Maori leader of high importance. He has been active in education and politics and has served in important positions in New Zealand. He served as a director for the Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology. He has always struggled for the culture of his own people , the Maori.
Monte Ohia was also known as a deeply religious man. Being a Christian, he had since worked for the possibilites for his own people and for indigenous peoples all around the world to be allowed and able to express their Christian faith according to their own traditions. Monte was one of the pioneers in the Christian indigenous movement. Among other things, he and his wife were the founders of the World Christian Gathering of Indigenous Peoples (WCGIP) which was held for the first time in New Zealand in 1996. Since then five more gatherings have been held, the 7th is to be held in Israel later this year.
In Monte Ohia, the indigenous Christian movement has lost a pioneer and an inspiring leader, a humble and passionate man as those who knew him say.
See:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4583147a11.html
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0806/S00173.htm
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10515934
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10516069
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