By Fr David Willis - President, Catholic Theological Institute, Port Moresby 29 AUG 2013. Holy Spirit Seminary, the largest formation institution for diocesan seminarians in PNG, celebrated its Golden Jubilee at its Bomana Campus from Friday 23rd till Sunday 25th August. The weekend was well...

28 AUG 2013. Papua New Guinea new Chief Ombudsman Atty. Rigo Lua doesn’t see the need for the creation of a new government agency tasked with the promotion, supervision and implementation of human rights in the country. “The Ombudsman Commission – he said at a Human Rights Symposium hosted by...

By Fr. Giorgio Licini Catholic Reporter Yes, Prime Minister Peter O’Neill and many other good Members of Parliament and Government officials never miss an opportunity to praise the Churches for being partners in service delivery and development. Apparently the show went on again on Monday, 26...

20 AUG 2013. A group of Riverview students has written to opposition leader Tony Abbott and his fellow Jesuit-educated MPs ahead of the election labelling their support for the PNG solution a ‘horrifying moral bankruptcy’ and calling on them to return to their core Jesuit values of respect, decency...

The Australian Jesuits issued a statement of deep concern ahead of Refugee Sunday on 25th August 2013 and two weeks before one of their alumni, now opposition leader Mr. Tony Abbott, is likely to become Prime Minister of Australia according to opinion polls. REFUGEES AND ASYLUM...

By Sr. Lorena Jenal - PNG Catholic Family Life Apostolate As long as I live I’ll think of the morning I was called to the bedside of twelve year old Tamaris in one of the provincial hospitals of the Highlands. Tamaris was from a remote area without health facilities. She had been raped and got...

The Sunday Morning Herald – 14 August 2013 Sydney: Women in poverty-stricken Papua New Guinea suffer "severe brutality" with violence, including savage attacks involving knives, axes and whips, occurring in two-thirds of all families, a new study said. Based on interviews in Central Province's Rigo...

By Ass.te Prof. Z. Z. Kruczek CSMA - Executive Director 10 AUG 2013. Flexible Learning Centre (FLC) is an integral part of Divine Word University (DWU) in Madang. It begun to function as Tertiary Distance Education Centre in 2000. Then in 2004 it was renamed and for eight years it was known under...

By Glenda Awikiak – DWU journalism student Interview with Fr. Giorgio Licini PIME – Divine Word University Chaplain Fr. Giorgio, have you come across lone street preachers in Madang town? Not actually here in Madang since my activity here is almost completely confined to the DWU campus; but...

By Fr. Giorgio Licini PIME CBC Communications 08 AUG 2013. Death sentences will really soon be carried out in Papua New Guinea. This was confirmed this morning at a Symposium on Capital and Corporal Punishment at Divine Word University in Madang by Justice Minister and Attorney General Kerenga Kua...