The Archbishop of Mt Hagen in Papua New Guinea, Douglas Young, has expressed his deep concern at PNG’s Justice Minister’s determination to execute 13 men currently on death row. After many months of public condemnation of PNG’s revived and expanded death penalty laws, Archbishop Young says Church leaders are now looking at hosting a national and Read more
Last year Pacific Regional Seminary (PRS) in Suva, Fiji celebrating the 40th anniversary its foundation. The jubilee time ran together with the celebration of the Year of Faith and the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council. The Rector of PRS Fr. Michael O’Connor said 2013 was a year of special blessings. He said one Read more
Domestic violence has spiked over Christmas – New Year in Fiji. Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre says it has received reports of 120 cases of violence against women in the past eight days. The news comes less than a month after the Fiji Women’s Crisis centre released the results of a survey that showed 64 per Read more
2013 was the year when the Fiji Constitution demands Fiji become a secular State. It was also the year when the churches spoke out the loudest. The Catholic Church took a prominent position when Peter Chong became the new Archbishop and refocussed the Church. Stressing the church could not only be a private affair but Read more
The Chairman of the Vanuatu Christian Council, Reverend James Ligo, says the government has lost sight of the nation’s original vision for independence by attracting more foreign investors and approving dual citizenship. He says it is “important to recall our vision for independence because I believe the foundation of Vanuatu as an independent nation was Read more
An evangelical church leader in Papua New Guinea says people will in time realise that the Speaker of Parliament was right to remove carved wooden heads at the tops of totem poles from Parliament House. Joseph Walters, a prominent evangelical church leader in Papua New Guinea, says the Speaker did the right thing, and there Read more
Archbishop Anthony Sablan Apuron. has. announced that second seminary is to be established on Guam. The new seminary will be called the “Saint John Paul II Archdiocesan Seminary” and will be initially hosted on the grounds of the Carmel on the Hill Retreat Center in Malojloj. There are plans on the drawing board to construct Read more
Last week Indonesia’s National police chief Sutarman said extremists may be planning terror attackson Christians at Christmas and New Year celebrations in Jakarta and other parts of the country. “The terrorists have cells everywhere and they are active. We are continuing to pursue them,” Sutarman, told reporters in Jakarta. Since 2000, when improvised bombs disguised as Read more
The Catholic Bishops Conference of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands is disappointed by the Speaker, Theo Zurenuoc’s, decision to remove the traditionally-carved lintels above the public entrance into the Parliament’s public gallery. Conference General Secretary Fr Victor Roche is strongly against the opinion of the Speaker that the traditional carvings and decorations in Parliament Read more
Father Kevin Barr says Fiji’s 2014 budget is the first “people-centred” and “pro-poor” budget for many years. Speaking as a panellist on the topic “Implementation of Socio-Economic Rights’” at the Attorney-General’s 15th annual conference, he congratulated government on its initiatives and said the generous allocations for education would bring a radical change in parents’ ability Read more