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Caritas takes on voter education in PNG

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

The Electoral Commission in PNG is again partnering with Caritas PNG to provide voter education on election issues.

Electoral Commission representative Alice Guguna said the awareness was a civic-voter education strategy to educate people in the remote areas on the election process and their right to vote freely, fairly and safely.

Caritas PNG has been a long-time partner of the commission in educating the people on the election process.
It has produced awareness materials such as posters, leaflets and brochures to educate the people on the importance of casting their votes without being intimidated.

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Separation of Church and State does not mean silence

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

Separation of Church and State is an essential pre-condition for Western style democracies. But it is not total separation, as desired by the secularists. Church members vote and hold high office as citizens. The Churches have a part to play in the ‘public square’. In fact Evangelical Catholics are committed to robust public proclamation of Read more

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Election times and false prophets

Friday, November 4th, 2011

Election times are almost with us. Beware of “millennial cargo cult” politicians!  Why the strange language? Well, it aptly describes a dangerous type of politician and political policy. Millenarian cults are social movements common throughout history. They proclaim for devoted believers the destructive end of one era and the dramatic coming of another more perfect Read more

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Bishops ask all to consider the common good when they vote

Friday, November 4th, 2011

New Zealand’s Catholic bishops have asked New Zealanders and especially Catholics to consider the common good of all when they vote in the November general election. In a statement being distributed to Catholic parishes throughout the country, the bishops emphasise that politics is not a private affair and that the election is an opportunity to help secure Read more

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Napier election candidates to go to church

Friday, November 4th, 2011

Should some election candidates feel the need to say a little prayer about the upcoming big day then they will be in the right place during a planned meeting this Sunday.

Five candidates, Chris Tremain (National), Stuart Nash (Labour), Paul Bailey (Greens), Na Raihania (Maori Party) and Robert Burnside (ACT) will be attending the meet the candidates gathering which has been organised by Inner City Churches and set to be staged at St Paul’s Church in Tennyson St at 3.30pm.

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National Candidate for Tamaki trained to be a priest

Tuesday, November 1st, 2011

National Candidate for Tamaki Simon O’Connor, 35, was born and raised in Whangarei. He completed training as a Catholic priest, but chose not to be ordained.

“It’s like a lot of young men who go through it – it eventually didn’t feel like the right fit for me and I felt I could probably use some of the skills I had in a wider context, in this case outside the priesthood, so went pretty quickly into politics to make a difference that way.”

Qualities developed in his training – honesty, integrity, discipline, respect for others – were assets for a political career, he said.

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Labour Party is getting religion for the first time

Tuesday, October 11th, 2011

The Labour Party is getting religion.  “For the first time in New Zealand’s political history the Labour Party has established the portfolio of Interfaith Dialogue in recognition of the unprecedented plurality of faiths and religious beliefs that exist today, and the significant role faith plays in the lives of many New Zealanders,” it says. The policy paper Read more

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Stop the inefficient system of allocating development funds

Tuesday, June 21st, 2011

The Catholic Bishops Conference of Pa­pua New Guinea and Solomon Islands have renewed a call for parliament to “cease the inefficient system of allocating development funds to MPs to distribute”. “This system is a direct cause of election-related violence,” the bi­shops said. “It is open to much abuse and the potential for corruption, especially by diverting these funds Read more

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On the Right – Brash back

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011

Don Brash is back: in an unusually intemperate Editorial in the Sunday Star times he is described as “half Mr Magoo, half political assassin”. “There is something blood-chilling about this affable old chap. Always bright, always calm, even when he has just stabbed his ‘old friend’ in the back”. The editorial goes on to describe the Act Party as a “clique Read more

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