Catholic schools are among the many organisations in Samoa that have been enriched by the work done by the United States Peace Corps. The Government of Samoa first invited Peace Corps to Samoa in 1967 In the 50 years since that time, over 2000 Peace Corps Volunteers have served in Samoa They have helped build Read more
The Samoan government is considering making church ministers pay tax. “We are now in the process of carrying out consultations with churches,” Samoa’s Minister of Revenue, Ti’alavea Tionisio Hunt says. “We already had a meeting with the Executive of the Samoa National Council of Churches where we discussed the issue,” He said he understood pastors Read more
The Samoan woman said to have the stigmata, Toaipuapuaga (Toa) Patrick, and her family will be returning to Samoa from Rome at the end of March. Toa and her family have been in Rome for six months. Photographs sent to the online news organisation Talamua from Rome show Toa in Rome greeting the Pope. However, Read more
Climate change threatens to displace i-Kiribati, the people of the low-lying atoll nation of Kiribati. However if relocation proves necessary it will not be the first time that i-Kiribati have found themselves, en-mass, in a ‘strange’ land. The recently appointed Apostolic delegate to the Solomon Islands, Archbishop Mathew Kurian Vayalunkal received at a true i-Kiribati welcome Read more
A building in down town Noumea belonging to Secours Catholic (Catholic Relief Services) in Nouméa, has been destroyed by fire. The fire broke out last Thursday shortly before 3am and destroyed the wooden and corrugated iron building located between the St Joseph’s Cathedral and Frédéric-Surleau school. About twenty firemen and seven fire appliances were used Read more
People in Luganville, Santo, are flocking day and night to a stream that is claimed to have healing elements. There is however no scientific expert or medical data is available to back or rebut these claims. A caller from Luganville, told the Vanuatu Daily Post around 200 to 300 people come to the stream every Read more
The church should play a more proactive role in promoting early childhood education says the secretary general of the Samoa Council of Churches, Reverend Ma’auga Motu. “When it comes to Early Childhood Education, I know that has to start from the church,” he said. “I believe the church has the initiative to make this happen Read more
The Roman Catholic Church of Guam has established a $1 million settlement fund for victims of child sexual abuse. In a news conference with his nine-member archdiocese finance council, Archbishop Michael J. Byrnes said the funds will become available as soon as the archdiocese has put in place an administrator who will be supported by Read more
The question of Sunday church attendance has been raised in Fiji, in the course of a consultation about village by-laws which is taking place there. Responding suggestions some villagers have made for a village by-law stating that everyone living in villages should attend church every Sunday Permanent Secretary for iTaukei Affairs Naipote Katonitabua says no one Read more
Inadequate funding for day to day management of Catholic Agency schools was been brought to the attention of the Government last year says Papua New Guinea’s National Catholic Education Board chairman Fr Paul Jennings. “These facts were pointed out to the Prime Minister, Education Minister and Education secretary in a letter from the Catholic Bishops Read more