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May the forth be with you
Our website traffic quadrupled on this very special day. We got 2000 unique visitors for the day instead of the ordinary 500 per day. :-) MTFBWY [more]
Wednesday 11 May 2011

Christchurch Earthquakes
Our hearts go out to all of those affected by the Feb 22nd Earthquake in Christchurch. This is a tragic tremor in the force! [more]
Tuesday 22 February 2011

Press Release - Is Facebook the new religion of Census 2011
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Monday 21 February 2011

Press Release - Response to Libertarianz Party
The International Jedi Church, based in New Zealand, are terminating discussions with the Libertarianz Party due to significant differences in opinion. [more]
Sunday 13 February 2011

Jedi Stickers
We have Jedi Stickers available for New Zealand residents only, promoting Jedi as an answer to the religion question in the 2011 census. Please email me your postal address to receive the stickers. [more]
Thursday 23 December 2010

Next NZ census 2011 - march 8
fyi everyone, it's only 3 months until the next Nz census. We need to spread the word and remind people the importance of answering Jedi for the religion question. [more]
Thursday 23 December 2010

NZ Census - Nelson Region highest concentration of Jedi
In the age group of 15-29 years of age, there are over 20% who answered Jedi in the Census. As a percentage of the total Nelson population was almost 7% and the next top region was Malborough. The Force is strong at the top of the South Island. [more] [View XLS]
Thursday 26 February 2009

NZ Census capitulates - Jedi Stats for New Zealand 2006 Census
After a long debate with NZ Census over several years, and even after expressing a desire to pay for the information, it has been several months, here it is... [more] [View PDF]
Monday 23 February 2009

Jediism Now Officially Founded

Jediism Now Officially Founded
On January 12th 2009. The Government of Canada granted Order of the Jedi Inc. The worlds first Federally Incorporated Non-Profit Religious Entity. The Order of the Jedi Inc. will continue to move forward, now applying for recognition within each province, and also help to establish other Orders who have been fighting for so long with a letter of introduction to their governement. A Federally registered Corporation is also recognized globally. [more] [www.orderofthejedi.ca]
Wednesday 11 February 2009

Jedi Church High Council - Executive
Chairperson = Master Zen Yobi Secretary = Master Dale Akira Treasurer = Master Boo All nominated, seconded and accepted, all unupposed. [more]
Friday 19 December 2008

Jedi Church High Council Election Results
The results for the High Council Election [more]
Wednesday 17 December 2008

Jedi Church donating to the Special Childrens Christmas Party
The Jedi Church are donating to the Special Childrens Christmas Party. May the force be strong with these little padewans [more] [www.sccpnz.co.nz/]
Wednesday 29 October 2008

Open Letter to the NZ Census
Below is an open letter to the NZ census, individual names/contact details have been removed. [more]
Wednesday 23 July 2008

21772 Visitors to our website
Last month we had 21772 visitors to our website, and combined they visited over 27000 times. The Jedi Church movement is growing stronger around the world. Remember that the NZ and Ausi Census is only about 1-2 years away. Lets make sure our voice is heard this time. [more]
Wednesday 2 July 2008

A man posing as Darth Vader attacked a Star Wars fan who had founded a Jedi Church
The Jedi Church has had a sudden surge in visitors. Could this bbc news link be the reason? [more] [Link]
Tuesday 22 April 2008

List of ancient jedi
An article is being considered fro deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. Please review this and make your submissions. [more] [Link]
Monday 1 October 2007

Once again the Census refuses to accept out religion
The census seems happy to compile that our society has approximately 1000 satanists, 2000 witches, 192 druids, and has decided that Jedi, should be "outside scope". [more] [Link]
Tuesday 23 January 2007

The Real Jedi Religion
[more]
Sunday 5 February 2006

Open letter to the NZ census beureau
I note in the last census that some answers to the religion question were not counted as certain religions were not included in the official religions list. We feel it is extremely important that answers which are "recognised but not counted" shou [more]
Thursday 19 January 2006

Brighton tops UK Jedi league
By Lester Haines Posted: 28/01/2004 at 16:19 GMT Stay up to date wherever you are, with The Register Mobile Long, long ago, in a news galaxy some considerable distance from reality, we reported on attempts to get Jedi recognised as an official [more] [Link]
Thursday 5 February 2004

Some 20,000 Canadians worship at the altar of Yoda
Tuesday, May 13, 2003 OTTAWA -- May the Force be with you. And also with you. Amen. An astonishing 20,000 Canadians declared themselves to be followers of the religion of Jedi, the guardians of peace and justice in the Star Wars flicks, Stati [more] [Link]
Thursday 5 February 2004

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Links

BBC Article 2001

Jedi Census Site

Information regarding the international attempts to have the Jedi religion officially recognised in census results, despite the large number of people who answer this question correctly.

Jedi census phenomenon

The Jedi census phenomenon was a grassroots movement in 2001 for citizens in a few English-speaking countries to record their religion as "Jedi" or "Jedi Knight"

Starwars - The Movie

Like all religions, movies are made about important moments in history. Think about all the New Testament movies ever made. George Lucas has done a great job here.

UK 2001 jedi statistics - 0.7% are Jedi in UK

0.7% of England and Wales are members of the Jedi church as per the last UK census. Brighton by far as the most consolidated jedi population, where 1 in 50 people are Jedi's

 

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