Political leaders in Fiji have been invited by the Fiji Methodist Church to form the new constitution in line with God’s plan for the world. Reverend Tuikilakila Waqairatu is the newly appointed president of the Fiji Methodist Church. At the University of the South Pacific seminar run by the Constitution Commission on Thursday night, Mr Read more
An image of Jesus Christ under the title of the Divine Mercy was dedicated at the international airport of Samoa, Faleolo, last Wednesday. Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi spoke at the unveiling. He said the “only correct image now looks over the national gateway”. “Faleolo Airport is Samoa’s front door to the world. It is Read more
The Samoa Victim Support now offers its services in Sydney and Brisbane. Samoan Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi opened the Sydney branch in Liverpool recently. He said that promoting awareness of gender-based violence is important, as is offering a place of safety for victims. He added that the Samoa Victim Support is strongly supported by Read more
The Bible is helping in the fight against domestic violence in the Solomon Islands, according to a recent report prepared by Sean Dorney, Pacific correspondent of ABC News Australia. World Vision and the local Anglican Church, the Church of Melanesia, are working to get to grips with the issue of domestic violence in the Solomon Read more
The bill to make same-sex marriage legal in Aotearoa New Zealand has prompted about 300 people belonging to Tongan churches in Auckland to join a protest march. Labour MP Louisa Wall’s same-sex marriage bill, aimed at legalising same-sex marriage, passed its first reading in Parliament during August. It is now being considered by a parliamentary Read more
To declare Fiji a Christian State is tantamount to blasphemy, according to Reverend Josateki Koroi, the former president of the Methodist Church in Fiji and Rotuma. Submissions to the Constitution Commission recommending that Fiji should be declared a Christian State have caused considerable debate. The idea would continue to be debated, Mr Koroi said, “because Read more
Rowan Williams, archevêque de Canterbury et chef de l’Église anglicane, a entamé ce week-end une visite officielle de cinq jours en Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée, en compagnie de son épouse Jane Williams, rapporte la radio nationale. Au cours de ce périple papou, ce dirigeant religieux devrait rencontrer les plus hautes autorités de l’État, dont le Gouverneur Général (représentant Read more
Sister Sesilia Ioane, from Samoa, is leader of the Sisters of Nazareth community at Nazareth House in Wynnum, Queensland. She says that young people seem to think that “nuns are not quite human.” It’s clear that such young people have not heard her wonderful laugh, nor seen the remarkable work she does with the elderly Read more
On Sunday Blessed Marianne Cope was canonised by Pope Benedict XVI at a ceremony at St. Peter’s Basilica. St Marianne died in 1918 of kidney and heart disease at age 80. She dedicated 30 years of her life, from 1888 to 1918, helping Hawaiian-born patients suffering with Hansen’s disease (leprosy) who were exiled to the Kalaupapa peninsula Read more
La Commission Constitutionnelle des îles Fidji, qui avait entamé en juillet 2012 un processus de consultations en vue de recueillir les avis du public concernant le contenu à venir d’une nouvelle Constitution, a achevé cette phase en début de semaine et se prépare désormais à rédiger un texte qui devra, ensuite, être soumis à l’approbation d’une Assemblée Constituante. Read more