Praying for action on climate change and a kava ceremony in the heart of the Catholic church were all part of the journey leading up to last year’s momentous Paris climate change talks, according to the leader of the Pacific Climate Warriors. Koreti Tiumalu told the ‘In the Eye of the Storm‘ climate change conference Read more
Broadspectrum operates detention centres, under contract to the Australian government, in Papua New Guinea and Nauru. The company that used to be called Transfield Services, has revealed a profit of Au$25.1 million for the six months to the end of December. The jump in group earnings was mostly driven by a 6.5 per cent rise Read more
The outbreak of the Ziak virus has created a dilemma for the church says Quentin de la Bedoyere. It is strongly suspected, though not fully proven, that, in some pregnant women, it causes microcephaly in the foetus. (Microcephaly is a severe shrinkage of the brain, which damages brain function.) Writing in the Catholic Herald Quentin Read more
The Right Reverend George Takeli is the new Archbishop elect of the Anglican Church of Melanesia. Takeli is currently the bishop of the Diocese of Temotu province. His appointment as Archbishop was made by the Provincial Electoral Board of the Anglican Church of Melanesia. The provincial Electoral Board was made up of Bishops, clergy and Read more
A Tongan teenage woman Alo-Bridget Namoa, the wife of a western Sydney man charged with terror-related offences, has been arrested. The 18-year old married Sameh Bayda in December after converting from Christianity to Islam. Namoa, from Guildford in Sydney’s west, appeared at Parramatta Local Court via videolink on Saturday facing 31 charges of refusing to Read more
Entertainment and feasting marked the opening of a new church last weekend at Chapuru community, Visale. Chapuru is a village on the northwest coast of Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. According to John Toki, Solomon Star’s Guadalcanal correspondent, close to a thousand people braved the heavy downpour on Saturday to witness the blessing of the new church. Read more
In Fiji the National Catholic Women’s League will be hosting the World Union of Catholic Women’s Organisation (WUCWO) meeting in Suva. League president Selina Lee Wah said preparation had started as the meeting, which would bring in participants from 13 countries, will be held in May. The World Union of Catholic Women’s Organisations (WUCWO) was founded Read more
PNG’s National Planning Minister Charles Abel has confirmed that because of budget constraints, funding for the Church-State Partnership Programme in 2016 has been cut to 3.2 million US dollars from about 8 million. A church representative says very little of last year’s allocation was paid out anyway. Church-led health services are already being strained at Read more
Usually Latter Day Saints’ temples are not open to members of the general public. Only members of the LDS temple with valid passes are permitted to go in. The Suva Fiji Temple — which serves more than 35,000 Latter Day Saints in Fiji, Vanuatu, Kiribati and the Solomon Islands — was originally dedicated in June Read more
It is the final payment to be made by the Tuilaepa Sa’ilele Maleilegaoi led government before the general election which is now a month away. The Catholic and the Congregational Christian Church schools have topped the list, receiving more than half a million dollars with the Methodist church schools getting just over $US 250,000. Several Read more