In Guam there have been 17 priests ordained in the past nine years. Last Saturday, Deacon Luis Venancio Benavente Camacho became the first Chamorro from the Redemptoris Mater Archdiocesan Missionary Seminary of Guam to be ordained priest. Deacon Michael Vincent Jucutan, of Hawaii was ordained at the same time. Fr Luis is the second Chamorro to Read more
This week in Guam, the island community gathered to pay tribute to the victims of the Tinta and Faha massacres. On July 15 and 16, 1944, with the American forces approaching Guam near the end of the Japanese occupation of the island in World War II, Japanese soldiers massacred nearly fifty Chamorro men and women from Read more
Deacon Richard Meno Kidd of the Archdiocese of Agana, Guam, will be ordained to the priesthood Saturday, July 6. Archbishop Anthony Sablan Apuron will celebrate the ordination at the Dulce Nombre de Maria Cathedral-Basilica in Hagatna. Kidd studied at St. Patrick’s Seminary in Menlo Park, California. Growing up in Barrigada and Merizo, he entered the Read more
On Monday Guam lawmakers unanimously voted to approve Bill 19, which would allow legal gambling activity to temporarily continue on Guam in order to subsidize the Guam Memorial Hospital and other public agencies. Once those debts are paid off, all gambling would be outlawed, the bill states. The Catholic Church on Guam said its main Read more
Representatives from sixteen seminaries in Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Fiji, Australia, New Zealand, and Guam have been meeting at The Redemptoris Mater Archdiocesan Missionary Seminary of Guam for their annual Oceania Seminary Rectors’ Meeting. “What we have in common is the Pacific, the ocean. I think it is great that we can share a Read more
Catholics in the Philippines and the United States are preparing to celebrate the October 21 canonisation of Blessed Pedro Calungsod, a teenage catechist killed in the 17th century. Witness accounts in the records of Jesuit missionaries show the teenage catechist from Guam died trying to protect his mentor, Jesuit Father Diego Jose Luis San Vitores, Read more
A memorial mass in Guam was celebrated on December 8 to recall what happened seven decades ago, when mass to commemorate Santa Marian Kamalen was abruptly cut short. It was 70 years to the day since the Japanese began their invasion. Carmen Artero Kasperbauer was just six years old at the time. She was one Read more
The Director of Public Health in Guam has called for prostitution to be legalised for public health reasons.
The legislature is currently discussing a bill aimed at distinguishing between genuine massage parlours from other businesses offering illegal services.
James Gillan told senators his call is not an endorsement of prostitution.
He told Radio Australia brothels have slipped under the radar, because many named themselves therapeutic masseuses.
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