Christopher Cardone, O.P. is the new archbishop of Honiara. He was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Gizo in 2001 and from 2004 to the present he has been Bishop of Auki, Malaita Province. A statement from the Archdiocese released to the media read, “On behalf of our Church Leaders, the clergies and the Catholic people of Read more
Vatican appointee, Archbishop Savio Hon Tai Fai, has rescinded a decree which forbade Catholics from associating with a group that is calling for the removal of Guam’s Archbishop, Anthony Apuron. Hon stated in his decree he rescinded and annulled Apuron’s decree, “After seven days of consultation and reflection, with deep concern for the best interests of Read more
Outrage has erupted in Samoa after a newspaper published a photograph of a dead trans-gender woman. The suspected cause of death is suicide. The 20-year-old computer student was a regular at the Catholic Church of Taufusi. She was discovered in a church hall on Friday morning local time. A photograph on the front page of Read more
Last weekend a group of young men and women spent Saturday working with and talking with people in the Makoi Hart community in Suva. These young men and women are temporarily professed religious living and working in Fiji. Watch the video They come from a number of different congregations: Marist Sisters, Missionaries of the Sacred Read more
A Methodist school in Fiji last week reprimanded a group of Muslim students for wearing religious headscarves to school. The Church’s secretary for education, Waisake Ravatu, said the students were disciplined for breaking the school dress code rules. He said the school principal asked students to remove their headscarves last week Wednesday. Ravatu said all religious Read more
Another former altar boy, Roland Paul L. Sondia, came forward Wednesday morning to publicly accuse Archbishop Anthony S. Apuron of sexual abuse. Sondia, 54, said Apuron sexually abused him when he was a 15-year-old altar boy during a sleepover at the Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church rectory in Agat where Apuron was parish priest Read more
Pull up to the Samoan Christian Fellowship in Des Moines on certain Saturdays and you’ll smell the aroma of grilled chicken and pork ribs rubbed with a “super secret” sauce and spun over an open flame, “huli huli” style. “We have Samoan friends, and any food they touch is delicious, so I stopped when I Read more
Police in Enga, Papua New Guinea are looking for nine pastors to be questioned over their role in witch hunting. It is alleged the 9 pastors are implicated in the torture and killing of a woman accused of sorcery. In May Enga Provincial police commander acting Superintendent George Kakas urged the nine from Kombiam district Read more
Four Sisters and two security guards were beaten up and robbed allegedly by 12 armed criminals in full police uniforms in their own house outside of Goroka in Eastern Highlands Province. The incident happened on Sunday May 8 between 9pm and 10pm in Bihute, several kilometres outside of Goroka town where the Catholic Sisters from Read more
Pope Francis has named an administrator for the Archdiocese of Agãna, on the Pacific island of Guam after its archbishop was accused of sexually abusing young boys decades ago. He is Archbishop Savio Hon Tai-Fai. Hon Tai-Fai is currently secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, a position he has held since 2010. Read more