The Diocese of Bougainville has been running Sunday School awareness workshops in parishes this month. The purpose of workshops was to get a consensus from the people. Around 3,500 people from 20 parishes have participated in the workshops. By the end of October the parishes will make a decision about whether they want the Sunday Read more
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands have designated the Sunday after the feast of St. Maria Goretti and Blessed Peter ToRot as Youth Sunday in both countries. Youth Sunday was celebrated for the first time on 12th July 2015. Fr.Shanthi Chacko Puthussery Secretary of Commission for Youth and Laity Read more
From January 2012 to October 2013, Fr. Shanthi Chacko Puthussery, Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands Secretary for Catholic Youth and Laity conducted 17 parish youth leaders’ leadership trainings in 17 of 22 dioceses in the two countries. An essential part of the training was actual personal accompaniment of the participants in which they felt Read more