Churches reconcile at Easter in Bougainville

Monday, April 29th, 2019

Churches in Papua New Guinea’s autonomous region of Bougainville marked Easter with a major reconciliation and unification ceremony in Arawa.

The Post Courier reports that church leaders acknowledged that after arriving in the region a hundred years ago, different denominations had created division among the people.

This disunity continued on through the crisis years of Bougainville’s civil war in the 1990s.Read more

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