The biggest denomination in Samoa, the Congregational Christian Church of Samoa (CCCS), has borrowed $15 million from the Samoa National Provident Fund (S.N.P.F). The Chairman of the Church’s Finance Committee, Le Mamea Ropati Mualia, said the loan is to fund the construction of the Jubilee Church at Malua and “other developments”. Le Mamea could not Read more
The secretary of the Vanuatu Presbyterian Church, Pastor Allan Nafuki, says the churches and the chiefs are planning measures to address the impasse created by the jailing of 14 members of parliament. The members of parliament had been convicted on corruption charges. Nafuki says they don’t want any more time wasting. “We are calling from Read more
The Catholic Church has a unique role in combating belief in sorcery and mob reprisal attacks against sorcerers, Bishop Don Lippert of Mendi says. He has described the nuns who venture into the worst areas of the country as incredibly and inspiringly courageous. Lippert says they are putting their lives at risk in a desperate Read more
The country is not ready for mining, says Anglican Church of Melanesia’s Bishop and Isabel Paramount Chief James Mason. He made the observation during last week’s National Conference on Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative. “I felt that there’s no justification for the poor land owning tribes who were always the losers in their own lands. “The Read more
The departure of Save the Children Australia from Nauru, means that the children incarcerated there have been left without a voice. The Australian government has granted the welfare contract to the multinational, Transfield Services. Transfield Services has received $1.5bn from the Australian federal government since being contracted in October 2012 to manage Australia’s detention centres Read more
“In Oceania, our survival and existence are at stake,” said Monsignor John Ribat, President of the Federation of Catholic Bishops’ Conferences of Oceania and the Archbishop of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. Ribat was taking part in an emotionally charged press conference in Rome on Monday. Catholic leaders representing every continent on earth made an Read more
In Samoa the 25th of every month is celebrated as ‘Orange Day’, initiated and led by the UNiTE campaign Global Youth Network. Orange Day calls upon activists, governments and private sector to mobilise people and highlight issues relevant to preventing and ending violence against women and girls, not only once a year, on 25 November Read more
Church leaders in Vanuatu have described the jailing of 14 members of parliament as an answer to their prayers for God to reveal the truth. And when the MPs were escorted to the High Risk Correctional Centre, inmates were overheard praying and singing their favourite song, “This is the day that the Lord had made…” Read more
A gruesome video online shows the torture of four women accused of witchcraft and “invisibly” taking out a man’s heart and eating it in a village of Papua New Guinea. The footage, reportedly taken in a village of the Enga province, shows four women who have been stripped, tied up, burned and beaten. Several men Read more
The Prime Minister of Fiji says the people of Ra and Nadroga have the common sense to see through those spreading division and encouraging so-called breakaway Christian states. Voreqe Bainimarama say they know they are being manipulated by people misusing the word of God. He says some people are “falsely claiming that Christianity in Fiji Read more