40 Days for Life

Candlelight Vigil for the Unborn
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Wednesday 18 February to Sunday 29 March, 2026

Auckland Vigil Hours:
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday – 7am to 12pm
Corner of Dominion Road and Prospect Terrace, Mt Eden
Near the Auckland Medical Aid Centre

Can’t make the street vigil in Auckland? You can participate wherever you are by becoming a 40 Days for Life Prayer Partner. Click the button below to find out more and sign up!

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What is 40 Days for Life

40 Days for Life is a worldwide simultaneous prayer vigil that takes place near local abortion centres and other appropriate places with the intention of saving lives and bringing about the end of abortion through prayerful, peaceful witness.

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Pray and fast for an end to abortion and for all those involved and impacted – babies, mothers, fathers, workers, etc.

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Hold peaceful vigil outside or near a local abortion centre.

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Community outreach through a visible presence and providing information about foetal development, abortion, life-affirming alternatives, and after-abortion healing programmes.

This Lent change hearts and minds by publicly witnessing to the dignity of every human person from conception, praying for an end to abortion, and offering hope and life-affirming options to mothers in their greatest hour of need.

Will you be there to offer hope? Will you be there to be a sign of love and joy and mercy in the one place least expected?

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Infographic showing abortion statistics in New Zealand for 2024: 342 abortions per week, 17,785 pre-born children aborted, and 49 per day, with a foot image on the right.
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AUCKLAND

PALM SUNDAY CANDLELIGHT VIGIL

Sunday 29 March | 7:30pm
Potter’s Park, Corner of Dominion and Balmoral Roads
Balmoral, Auckland

Bring your friends and family. The Candlelight Vigil for the Unborn is a family-friendly event.

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Promotional poster for '40 Days for Life' campaign from February 18 to March 29, 2026, inviting participation in a street vigil and candlelight vigil to support mothers and children.
A flyer for the '40 Days for Life' organization, detailing a prayer vigil against abortion from February 18 to March 29, 2026. It includes sections on how the vigil works, becoming a prayer partner, engaging with the public, and components of the vigil such as prayer, fasting, and community outreach.
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26,144

LIVES SAVED GLOBALLY SINCE 2007

184

ABORTION CENTRES CLOSED GLOBALLY

275

ABORTION WORKERS QUIT GLOBALLY

Results

Since New Zealand’s first 40 Days for Life vigil in Lent 2014, we know of six babies whose lives have been saved because people like you were willing to pray, to be present, and to make sacrifices for life.

Beyond these lives saved, the vigils have opened countless conversations on the street—often with people who had never encountered a prayerful, compassionate witness before. Some have recognised their own need for healing after an abortion experience. Others have experienced a profound change of heart about abortion itself.

40 Days for Life works.
It offers hope, changes hearts, and saves lives.

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A great prayer for life is urgently needed, a prayer which will rise up throughout the world. Through special initiatives and in daily prayer, may an impassioned plea rise to God, the Creator and lover of life, from every Christian community, from every group and association, from every family and from the heart of every believer.

Saint Pope John Paul II, Evangelium Vitae #100
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