Teachers at St Joseph’s College in Apia will benefit after the Marist Old Pupil’s Association presented a cheque for NZD$16,100 to the college. The president of the association, Peseta Kasiano Ioane, said the cheque, presented earlier this month, is to help out with teachers’ pay. “We received a request from the school that they needed Read more
A Catholic Sister in Papua New Guinea’s Western Province says Christian health workers alone cannot adequately fight tuberculosis in the remote province. Sister Anna Sanginawa says the sporadically-funded job that Christian Health Services commit themselves to is not enough to beat TB. Western is one of three provinces in PNG that the national government recently Read more
About 100 Chinese and locals gathered at Suva’s Sacred Heart Cathedral to celebrate the Chinese new year with a mass last Saturday. The mass was led by Archbishop Peter Loy Chong. In his sermon, Chong said the Chinese new year, which was also known as the spring festival, was a time of reflection and to Read more
Pope Francis has met Tongan King Tupou VI and Queen Nanasipau’u Tuku’aho in the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican. They later met Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin, accompanied by Archbishop Paul Gallagher, secretary for Relations with States. King Tupou expressed his satisfaction at the election of the first Cardinal from Tonga, Cardinal Soane Patita Read more
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands is asking the PNG government and the Australian government to give the asylum seekers a full and efficient refugee status determination process in the Manus Detention Centre: To provide safe and humane conditions for the asylum seekers Not to force the asylum seekers Read more
Having a cardinal means the world to Tongans says the country’s fourth-ever bishop and now first cardinal, Soane Mafi. When he gets back to Tonga the good times will roll, Tongan-style, Cardinal Mafi told CruxNow. “Many pigs will be killed!” he told John Allen, quickly adding “I’ll try to save as many as I can”. Tens Read more
Soane Patita Paini Mafi became Tonga’s first Cardinal at ceremony that took place at 11pm on Saturday New Zealand time. Vatican Insider described the scene after the ceremony: “Tonga’s first Cardinal was, “Surrounded by faithful and relatives who have formed a chorus and are singing a traditional song at the top of their voices.” “There Read more
Tongans will be able to watch Bishop Soane Patita Paini Mafi receive his red hat on local TV. Digi TV will carry the event live. Coverage of the consistory will begin at 11pm on February 14. The Mass with the Pope and the new cardinals will begin at 10pm on February 15 Mafi is Tonga’s Read more
The Archbishop of Port Moresby, John Ribat, says the selling of buai – betelnut should not be banned. He says people make a living from buai and it can be controlled. Loop reports that he said this when he was speaking over the number of deaths related to the smuggling and selling of buai in Port Read more
The Diocese of Wewak has a new Bishop, Fr. Jozef Roszynski S.V.D. Roszynski was born in 1962 in Nidzica, diocese of Warmia, Poland. After completing his studies at the major Seminary of the Society of the Divine Word in Pieniezno, he was ordained a priest for the same religious Congregation on April 30th 1989. Roszynski Read more