Two senior ministers in Fiji’s Methodist Church have different views about a suggestion that the government legalise prostitution. Reverend Tuikilakila Waqairatu, the incoming president of the Church, is opposed to any move to legalise prostitution while Reverend Tevita Nawadra, who replaces him as general secretary, says he is in favour “Personally and, I think, the position Read more
About 100 Catholics from around Fiji attended a one-day Columban Companions in Mission (CCIM) workshop at Corpus Christi Teachers College in Suva last Saturday to fundraise and learn more about the work their missionary brothers and sisters do. “There are a lot of challenges that the missionaries face when they go on missions and the Read more
In Fiji, Father Kevin Barr said two thirds of Fiji’s population are living in poverty or close to it. Representing the Peoples Community Network in a seminar titled “The Challenges of Poverty to the Constitution” held at the University of the South Pacific He said 60 per cent of the workers in full-time employment earned wages below Read more
Political leaders in Fiji have been invited by the Fiji Methodist Church to form the new constitution in line with God’s plan for the world. Reverend Tuikilakila Waqairatu is the newly appointed president of the Fiji Methodist Church. At the University of the South Pacific seminar run by the Constitution Commission on Thursday night, Mr Read more
To declare Fiji a Christian State is tantamount to blasphemy, according to Reverend Josateki Koroi, the former president of the Methodist Church in Fiji and Rotuma. Submissions to the Constitution Commission recommending that Fiji should be declared a Christian State have caused considerable debate. The idea would continue to be debated, Mr Koroi said, “because Read more
La Commission Constitutionnelle des îles Fidji, qui avait entamé en juillet 2012 un processus de consultations en vue de recueillir les avis du public concernant le contenu à venir d’une nouvelle Constitution, a achevé cette phase en début de semaine et se prépare désormais à rédiger un texte qui devra, ensuite, être soumis à l’approbation d’une Assemblée Constituante. Read more
This week in Suva, Fiji, there have been a number brawls involving students from the city’s boys’ secondary schools. Brawls last Friday and on Monday involved students from Suva Grammar and Marist Brothers’ High School. Three people were hospitalised and a Marist student was arrested. He appeared in the Magistrates Court on Wednesday and was charged with Read more
It has been alleged that Fiji’s Public Service Commission (PSC) refused to consider a submission from the Catholic Board of Education requesting that heads of their schools belong to the Catholic faith. In a letter made public last week, Director of Catholic Education, Remesio Rogovakalali, said the PSC had turned down a Catholic Education delegation request for Catholic Read more
The Catholic Church in Fiji on Monday expressed its support to the government’s non-negotiable principle of secular state, stressing that everyone in the island nation should have the freedom of choice with their religion. Vicar General, Fr Beni Kaloudau, said the Catholic Church in Fiji welcomes the principle of equal rights to worship. Kaloudau said that Read more
The Assemblies of God (AOG) Church in the Fiji’s Northern Division is aiming to build 40 churches. Divisional Superintendent of the church in the north, Pastor Jeremaia Radrodro, confirmed the north had hosted a total of 64 AOG churches and that there were plans to extend this number as part of a crusade the church planned Read more