By Fr. Giorgio Licini Catholic Bishops Conference of Papua New Guinea Media Commission The conflict over the Rudd-O’Neill deal on refugees escalated today as UPNG students burned copy of the agreement at the end of peaceful demonstration. The Prime Minister from Tabubil rebuked them for...

29 JUL 2013  In a timely move the Catholic Bishops of the Papua New Guinea Highlands Region uphold Christian faith and oppose the deeply entrenched traditional belief in ‘sanguma’, through which human death is allegedly caused by sorcerers or witches. This often leads to persecution and...

20 JUL 2013. “How can we accommodate settlers in Papua New Guinea when we cannot accommodate our own people? Housing, education, health care, JOBS! - how can we supply these things for any number of settlers? How could Mr. O'Neill sign up to such a ridiculous idea!” This was the first reaction...

Statement of CBC Commission for Social Concerns on the recent agreement between Australia and PNG on processing and resettlement of asylum seekers in PNG. 21 JUL 2013. Like everyone else, the Catholic Bishops Conference of Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands was taken by surprise with the...

Has the O'Neill government forgotten the sufferings of Manam Island refugees when they were 'settled' on the mainland after volcanic eruptions some years ago?  These desperate citizens endured much hostility and lacked access to adequate education or health services. They could not find...

21 JUL 2013. The Provincial Superior of the Passionist Congregation for Australia and Papua New Guinea, Fr. Thomas McDonough CP, yesterday addressed a Letter to the Australian and PNG/SI Bishops’ Conferences on the recent agreement between the two countries to send all asylum seekers to the PNG...

By Marcus Pelto on June 26, 2013  At a recent community forum in the Southern Highlands of PNG a participant said, “We don’t need any more bad corruption in the Southern Highlands. We need good corruption like they have in Enga.” This person went on to describe the public services delivered...

By Fr. Giorgio Licini PIME CBC Social Communications 09 JUL 2013. The article by Nellie Setepano in the Post Courier on 9 July 2013 (see below) very comprehensively highlights the issue of teenage pregnancy in PNG. Though in other countries the situation is much worse, it is indeed alarming that...

  08 JUL 2013. Divine Word University (DWU) students back from their Semester break gathered last night at the main auditorium in campus to pay tribute to late Br. Andrew Simpson cfc MBE, Vice President-Student Affairs, who passed away suddenly on 12 June 2013. Candles were first lighted and...

Fr. Phil Gibbs, SVD Clinic hosts Pacific health workers The National, Monday 3rd June 2013 THE Epeanda aid post in the Southern Highlands last Saturday welcomed Pacific health workers for the first HIV/AIDS education programme to strengthen a Pacific response to the pandemic.Seven health care...