The UN has declared the 19 November to be World Toilet day. This year Samoa has celebrated World Toilet day with great panache and a nod in the direction of the Old Testament. In the opening remarks of his spiritual message Reverend Aumua Seuga Aumua reminded everyone that even in the time of Moses, proper Read more
Posts Tagged ‘Health’
Pope Francis urged to take holiday amid health speculation
Tuesday, June 10th, 2014
Pope Francis’s advisors have asked him to take a holiday this year, as he sometimes gets very fatigued. In the first year of his pontificate, amid a hectic schedule, Pope Francis did not have a break and did not even spend time at the traditional papal summer retreat at Castel Gandolfo. Church officials have said Read more
Suspended between life and death
Friday, May 30th, 2014
Doctors will try to save the lives of 10 patients with knife or gunshot wounds by placing them in suspended animation, buying time to fix their injuries Neither dead or alive, knife-wound or gunshot victims will be cooled down and placed in suspended animation later this month, as a groundbreaking emergency technique is tested out for Read more
Google first call for upset youth: survey
Friday, May 30th, 2014Google now beats talking to friends for young Kiwis with emotional or health problems, a survey has found. The Colmar Brunton national survey of 403 people aged 16 to 24 found that 64 per cent of young people said Google or other websites were the most common places their peers would go to “access information Read more
LDS Church gives neonatal equipment to hospital in Samoa
Friday, May 9th, 2014
The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints (LDS) has donated a NZ$123,000 Neonatal Machine to the Faleolo Medical Centre in Samoa. Mulipola Oliva Mulipola, presented the machine to the Minister of Health, Tuitama Dr. Leao Tuitama last Tuesday. Mulipola is Upolu Samoa West Stake President of the LDS Church. He said that while Read more
Virtue of eating less meat
Friday, April 4th, 2014
Abstaining from animal products during a period of fasting is a practice that dates back to early Christian monastic tradition. This tradition persists in the Orthodox Churches where even today fasting is characterised by abstinence from all animal products. But while abstaining from meat in the Roman tradition is mainly associated with the sacrifice of Read more
PNG Government to fund unregistered church run health facilities
Friday, December 6th, 2013
The PNG Health Department will provide the 172 unregistered church-run health facilities with funding assistance. Health Secretary Pascoe Kase says Kase said about 20% of the church-run institutions were not registered or recognised by the Government. “A lot of the health infrastructures were put in by the churches themselves many years ago even before the government Read more
EFKS church group studies health issues
Friday, September 6th, 2013
An EFKS (Congregational Christian Church) church in Faatoia, near Apia in Samoa has just concluded five weeks of sessions covering major health issues. The initiative, lead by Reverend Paulo Koria, was run in conjunction with the Ministry of Health and covered a range of issues including communicable and non-communicable diseases and healthy living. At the last Read more
Christian Community resisting Government immunisation drive
Friday, July 5th, 2013
The Ministry of Health in New Zealand says it will not adjust immunisation targets for the West Coast of the South Island, even though the ever-growing Gloriavale Christian Community refuses have its children immunised. The group, now numbering over 400, lives communally on the shores of Lake Haupiri, inland from Nelson Creek. Despite growth at the Read more
Criticism of NZ priest’s faith healing ministry rejected.
Friday, November 23rd, 2012
Doctors in Western Australia have expressed concern that sick pepople are rejecting conventional treatment in favour of “faith healing” from a well known New Zealand Catholic priest, Fr John Rea. Australian Medical Association WA president Richard Choong said belief was important but he was concerned someone might not seek treatment because they believed faith had Read more
