Religion in Papua New Guinea is being increasingly privatised and there is an increasing loss of Christian values in public life says Fr Boniface Holz.
“A common sign of this secularization is the emergence of social, political, and economical spheres in which religious influence is declining.”
Boniface says the Papua New Guinea constitution has two pints of reference: ‘our noble traditions’ and ‘the Christian principles’.
“The question is what happened to those noble traditions and the Christian principles since the time when European culture and civilization met the people of PNG?”
He says when a culture/civilization meets another culture/civilization changes will take place and there is the danger that the dominated society gets disorientated because of all the changes; that it loses its bearings.
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