By ISAAC NICHOLAS A government funded program of K120 million for church state partnership program has been wasted through misapplication and abuse. National Planning Minister Charles Abel will table a report on the Social Development Plan or Church State Partnership Program where K120 million has...

By Pama Kinoi – PNG Catholic Communications   05 JUN 2013. “Social Networks:  Portals of Truth and Faith; New Spaces for Evangelization” was the theme of a two-day Symposium for diocesan and religious seminarians of the Catholic Theological Institute of Bomana (Port Moresby)  on 3-4...

On Thursday, the 18th of April 2013 at the Government House, Konedobu in Port Moresby at 2pm the ceremony of investiture of honors took place. Bp. Francesco Sarego received from the hands of Governor General Sir Michael Ogio the Order of the Star of Melanesia for Fr. Dario Monegatti for service to...

30 May 2013. The Catholic Church in Papua New Guinea is only half happy with the Parliament amendment of the Criminal Code Act on 28th May. Legislation has been unnecessarily rushed to expand the application of the death penalty when the country was still debating the issue and a common consensus...

By Fr. Victor Roche, SVD – CBC Secretary General The Catholic Bishops Conference of Papua New Guinea & Solomon Islands (CBC) has issued specific press statements regarding the death penalty on 5 May 1995, 31 March 2003 and more recently as the law and order situation in the country...

25 MAY 2013. Private lawyer and member of Catholic Professionals Association Paul Harricknen has welcomed today the proposed new set of laws to fight crime. “It is across the board and balanced – he said in a press release -. It deals with violent assaults and killings, rape and all forms of...

Fifteen students from Divine Word University (DWU) in Madang travelling on a pilgrimage to Rome on 14-21 June for the Year of Faith have asked to pray with Pope Francis at his usual morning Mass at Casa Santa Marta while in Rome. “During the preparation meetings - DWU Chaplain Fr. Giorgio Licini...

PRESS RELEASE Papua New Guinea divided over implementation of death penalty 13 MAY 2013. Around the end of April and the first week of May this year a debate took place on the University Intranet Broadcast among lecturers of different departments of Divine Word University in Madang. A revised...

By Fr. Giorgio Licini PIME - CBC Communications 15 MAY 2013. Madang women leaders and professionals, though invoking tougher penalties, refrained yesterday from calling for capital punishment for heinous crimes; rather, they gave more attention to the root causes of violence in a public debate at...

2nd Timothy 2:8-13; Psalm 22; Alleluia verse Mat.11:25; Matt.11:25-30 We die with the Lord in this present life so to live with the Lord forever! The life and death of each one of us has its deep and profound impact on us. Alive or dead has deep influence on each other and on one another. If we...