-      Fr Ambrose Pereira sdb Port Moresby: Rev. Bishop Rochus Joseph Tatamai, MSC, DD was invested with the Insignia of the ‘Companion of the Order of the Star of Melanesia’ (CSM), on 4thApril, 2019 at the Government House, Port Moresby. Bp Rochus received this...

Lae, Papua New Guinea: The Catholic Diocese of Lae was blessed with its third bishop on 15th December, 2018. Bp Rozario Menezes SMM, was ordained Bishop of Lae at the solemn Eucharistic celebration held at the St Mary’s Primary School compound, Eriku, Lae. The solemn Eucharistic celebration...

Vunapope, Rabaul: The participants of the National Youth Convention (NYC) 2018 went on a pilgrimage to Rakunai, the home of Blessed Peter ToRot on Monday, 10th December 2018. The pilgrimage saw 260 plus young men and ladies visit Bl. Peter Torot’s (1912-1945) birth place, his burial site and...

Vunapope, Rabaul: Archbishop Mathew Kurian Vayalunkal, Apostolic Nuncio to Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands, concluded the National Youth Convention (NYC) with a Eucharistic celebration at the Sacred Heart Cathedral, Vunapope, Rabaul on Wednesday, 12th December 2018.  Archbishop...

On Wednesday October 10, 2018 Pope Francis appointed Fr. Rozario Menezes SMM as the third Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Lae. His predecessor Most Rev. Christian Conrad Blouin, CMM, served the diocese from 15th January 2007. Fr. Rozario Menezes SMM is an Indian Montfort Missionary who has been...

I met Bro. Hugo Andrey first time in the brother’s novitiate in St. Gabriel 1959. Back in Switzerland he did 2 years in an Agricultural College and graduated with a special price. I believe it was a wheelbarrow. In 1963 he was appointed to Australia and worked on our 600 head dairy cattle farm for...

Fr Ambrose Pereira sdb What does this appointment as Moderator of the Synod mean for you? ‘The appointment as one of the Moderators of the Synod came to me as a surprise.  However, it has given me an opportunity to reflect on how I can channel the voices of young people from across the world...

Abigail Seta and Fr Ambrose Pereira sdb Gordons, Port Moresby: The Catholic Bishops Conference (CBC) of Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands was blessed and opened on Monday, 17 September 2018. Prime Minister Hon. Peter O’Neil, His Eminence, Cardinal John Ribat MSC, His Excellency, Apostolic Nuncio...

 - Fr. Giorgio Licini Kavieng:   The Catholic diocese of Kavieng welcomed its fourth bishop on the 15th of August, 2018 with a solemn Eucharistic celebration attended by all parishes at the cathedral of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, Kavieng. Bishop Rochus Joseph Tatamai MSC aged 55 years,...

- Fr. Giorgio Licini, Kavieng: Retiring Bishop Ambrose Kiapseni MSC, received a solemn farewell on Tuesday 14thAugust at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, Kavieng. Born on the 16thof October, 1945, the boy from Lihir island joined the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (MSC). He was...