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Pacific churches hope to formulate a joint stand on same sex marriages by mid 2015.
A Pacific Council of Churches Secretariat team is expected to begin a data gathering process early in 2014, visiting clergy and lay people in churches around the region.
This process will ensure that as many views as possible are gathered before submissions are made to the PCC Executive Committee in 2015.
Churches in the Solomon Islands, Tonga, Fiji an Nauru have already expressed their objection to marriage between people of the same sex.
Father Peter Houhou, Vicar-General of the Roman Catholic Church in the Solomon Islands said his position was clear.
“We cannot support such marriages,” he told the PCC Executive Committee.
In Vanuatu reports that gay marriage, which is prohibited under the constitution, is being performed on the small island of Iririki off Port Vila have lead the Vanuatu Christian Council of Churches’ secretary general, Pastor Shem Temar to say, “I believe for the churches to rise against this is a constitutional duty and that is why the churches really stand against this. This country is seen as a Christian country and the churches want to maintain that.”
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