On behalf of the Catholic Church in Enga Province and Papua New Guinea I would like to take this opportunity to thank you and your policemen. You confronted the people of Teremanda in the Enga Province and  saved 3 defenseless women who were accused of sorcery or sanguma. You have rightly...

By Gabriel Kuman of the Melanesian Institute in Goroka. International Disability Day falls on every fifth day of December each year. Today, the 5th of December, 2014 marks another day to appreciate the presence and gifts of each of our brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, sons and daughters who...

By Fr Robert Moe Goodenough Island, MBP Fr Robert Moe,an ethnic Kaya from the mountains of Myanmar, a country where Catholics are 1% of the population, discovered his vocation as a seminarian and became a missionary. The journey of the 35-year-old priest reflects the fate of the Church in Myanmar,...

A way forward for peace in Bougainville Post Courier October 30, 2014 An agreement was signed between the Panguna Peace Building Strategy (PPBS) and the Siwai District Peace & Security Committee enabling the two parties to work together to address outstanding reconciliations in the...

24th November 2014 Health services in Papua New Guinea are suffering because the Government is not releasing funds promptly enough. Chairman of Catholic Church Health Services (CCHS), Archbishop Stephen Reichert expressed his disappointment that the release of salary and operational funds to the...

By Fr Nicholas Yambu Parish Priest, St Francis of Assisi Tari, Hela MENDI, 21 NOV 2014. There are three or four tribal fights now in Hela province. I have been here in Mendi for this week and I hear that two new tribal fights have started in the Koroba Kopiago electorates. I don’t know if this is...

He was already sick for several years with cancer of the bladder and had to be operated every few month. The last 2 or 3 months he got sick with insufficiency of his heart, which was only found out about a week ago. He had to get oxygen for a few weeks already, as he was continually short of...

By Bishop Arnold Orowae DD President, Catholic Bishops’ Conference of PNG & SI We spent the first week of the Synod (Oct 5-19) in Rome listening to about 260 interventions from cardinals, bishops, priests, religious and lay people concerning marriage and family life. The problems shared ranged...

Dominican Bishop, Anthony Fisher of Paramatta will be installed as ninth Archbishop of Sydney on Wednesday 12 November at St. Mary’s Cathedral following his appointment by Pope Francis on 18 September 2014. A statement released by the diocese of Parramatta describes Bishop Anthony’s appointment and...

By LilianMatbob Madang More than one hundred and thirty settlers from the four settlements areas in Madang Town area received their certificates of participation infinancial literacy on 21 October.The settlers consisting of youths, women and men from Gavstoa, Lain Banana, Kerema Compound and...