Tag: Papua New Guinea

Pope Francis has cleared the way for the canonisations of three blesseds: an Armenian Catholic archbishop martyred during the Armenian genocide, a lay catechist from Papua New Guinea killed during World War II and a Venezuelan religious sister who dedicated her life to education and the poor.

Maronite Eparch of Australia, NZ and Oceania, Bishop Antoine-Charbel Tarabay, joined Pope Francis in Papua New Guinea. From visits to youth, to the pope’s embrace of PNG’s rich culture, the message was one of ‘tangible hope’ and encouragement, Bishop Tarabay writes.

Key to pope Francis' pontificate has always been the importance of reaching out to the peripheries— made clear by his recent trip to be close to the most marginalised in Papua New Guinea.

At a Mass in Papua New Guinea Pope Francis preached on the call God has put on the heart of all Christians: to have the courage to be open to faith and to be true neighbours to one another.

With only 15 missionaries left in the diocese of Vanimo, Pope Francis spent his third day in Papua New Guinea, listening to stories from a married couple, religious sister and catechist on why many missionaries have stopped their work. 

Pope Francis spoke about Papua New Guinea in his general audience on Wednesday, where an avalanche left 2,000 people buried.

Remote communities in Papua New Guinea have been devastated by a catastrophic landslide that struck the Enga province at 3am on 24 May. The timing of the landslide meant most people were sleeping at the time of the disaster, with little time to escape.

Pope Francis will travel to Papua New Guinea, from 6-9 September on and 11-day tour to the region. To commemorate the event, the Vatican has released a logo for the trip.

Papua New Guinean Catholics hope the pope will announce the canonisation of Blessed Peter to Rot on his August visit to the Island nation. But nobody seems to know for sure if he’s coming.

On Good Friday this year the young Catholics of the Archdiocese of Port Moresby led about a thousand people on a seven-hour Way of the Cross from its cathedral, St Mary’s, to St Charles Lwanga church in a northern suburb of the Papua New Guinean capital.

Margaret Vella is affectionately known as God’s bootlegger. If the residents or religious sisters living in the remote Papua New Guinean diocese of Vanimo need something, she’ll get it for them.

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