By Abigail Seta Hohola, Port Moresby: The FCBCO Assembly visited and spent time with students at the La Salle Technical College, Hohola on 16thApril, 2018. With enthusiasm and vigour, the students welcomed the Bishops and Cardinals to their school as Motuan dancers in traditional attire led...

Fr. Ambrose Pereira sdb Vanimo: “Episcopal Ordination bilong Fr. Francis Meli em i bikpela presen bilong God long mipela olgeta, Bishop Francis Meli em i gutpela wasman bilong ol sipsip Jesus yet i salim em i kam long Daisis bilong Vanimo”, said Bp Cesare Bonivento as he welcomed the...

Fr Ambrose Pereira sdb Port Moresby:‘Gut moning long yupela olgeta,’ said Cardinal Pietro Parolin to a rousing welcome as he greeted the people this morning at the Jackson International Airport.  He spoke of his joy at being able to be amongst the people of Papua New...

By Abigail Seta Port Moresby: It is natural in our culture to reach out to those who seek refuge. These were the words of Governor of NCD, Hon. Powes Parkop speaking to the Federation of Catholic Bishops Conferences of Oceania Assembly on PNG and Refugees at the Airways hotel on Friday, 13th...

By Abigail Seta Port Moresby: The third day of the Federation of Catholic Bishops Conferences of Oceania Assembly had an intense session on sea-bed mining on Saturday, April 14th. Professor Kaluwin Chalapan of the School of Natural and Physical Sciences University of Papua New Guinea was the...

By: Abigail Seta Port Moresby: “One thing Pope Francis speaks about is the concern for the environment and for those who are suffering. His words are encouraging and are a challenge to me to move forward.” These were the words of PNG’s first Cardinal of the Catholic Church, Sir John Ribat, in an...

Pacific Bishops meeting in Auckland in August 2017 declared: “As Bishops of the Pacific, the place of the sea in the lives of the peoples we serve was a central focus of our meeting. Our common ocean is teeming with life and goodness. For many of our peoples the sea is their treasured source of...

Cardinal John Ribat says that climate change is an urgent issue for the people of Papua New Guinea, and the whole of the Pacific. Cardinal Ribat drove his point home saying that the issue is a more urgent than discussing Amoris Laetitia. While there will be time to talk about Church teaching on...

To all our beloved people in PNG/SI and throughout the world, fb family, fans and friends, followers and enthusiasts the updates on my visit again to Rome this time round with Fr Ben Fleming to acommpany Cardinal Ribat MSC as he takes possession of his Titular Parish in Rome (St Giovanni Baptista...

There's more to St Peter's Basilica and Square as I discovered this afternoon all by chance or coincidence maybe even divine Providence because I didn't least expect to find in that truly I was home back in PNG even while being inside the vast and enormously decorated and highly profile Vatican...