Oceania
13 July 2020
OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Covid-19, a Salesian: "No man is an island, let us reflect on the importance of life"
Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - "From the lockdown imposed due to the Coronavirus pandemic in March, until the reopening of flights in the Philippines, we remained isolated together with the other Salesian brothers who, i ...
7 July 2020
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Technology to support Catholic Aborigines against the "tyranny of distance"
Adelaide (Agenzia Fides) - "The Covid-19 pandemic has forced us to rethink how to celebrate our special day. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sunday, celebrated on 5 July, this year took place in a digital envir ...
3 July 2020
OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - The bishops remember Blessed To Rot, second generation Christian, an example of persistence in these times of lockdown
Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - The 61st Annual General Assembly of the Episcopal Conference of Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands (PNGSI) ended yesterday, 2 July 2020.
About 50 people took part in the celebration, inc ...
30 June 2020
OCEANIA/KIRIBATI AND NAURU - Resignation of bishop of Tarawa and Nauru, Kiribati and Nauru, and appointment of successor
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 29 June 2020, the Holy Father Francis accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Tarawa and Nauru, Kiribati and Nauru, presented by Bishop Paul Eusebius Mea Kaiuea ...
26 June 2020
OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - The Apostolic Nuncio: "Catholic laity: saints and sent to service"
Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - "It is our maximum responsibility to give adequate formation to the laity and to enable them to exercise their special role in the life and mission of the Church in Papua New Guinea and the ...
24 June 2020
OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - New evangelization: "Kerygma Program" presented
Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - "We must strengthen our Catholic faith and prepare lay people, priests and religious to be new evangelizers", said Father Victor Roche svd, Secretary of the Commission for New Evangelizatio ...
19 June 2020
OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Resignation of the Archbishop of Rabaul and appointment of the new Archbishop
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the archdiocese of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, presented by Archbishop Francesco Panfilo, S.D.B.
The Pope has appointed ...
19 June 2020
OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - "Each Salesian must feel 'one' with the people": 40 years of religious presence
Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - "Araimiri remains the place where the first missionaries planted the Salesian charism on Melanesian soil", writes Fr. Ambrose Pereira, SDB, Director of the Communications Office of the Epis ...
13 June 2020
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - The Pontifical Mission Societies: "The proclamation of joy of the Gospel is the mission of the Church in the world"
Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - "The Holy Father’s message is a message of great encouragement, because it invites us to welcome and share the joy of the Gospel. Its message of salvation and the gift of faith bring us the gif ...
8 June 2020
OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Respect and protection of the environment: the Bishops together for World Day
Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - Awareness for the protection of the environment, care for the common home in light of Pope Francis' encyclical 'Laudato Sì', individual initiatives on a practical level to support the prot ...
6 June 2020
OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Young people committed to environmental protection, in harmony with Laudato Sì
Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - A day of awareness and action, dedicated to the care of the "common home", the protection of environment and the critical use of the mass media: this is the initiative experienced by the yo ...
4 June 2020
OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - The diocesan center of Bougainville transformed into a quarantine reception facility
Bougainville (Agenzia Fides) - After 8 cases of coronavirus infections registered in Papua New Guinea, all healed, the local Church continues to carry out preventive measures in favor of the population. Among these, Fr. ...
29 May 2020
OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - The young students of the Don Bosco Technical School invite peers to trust in God to overcome any difficulty
Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - Positivity, trust, sharing, hope are some key points on which a group of students from the Don Bosco Technical School, Gabutu, confronted each other during the "Chat Room" program, of the T ...
26 May 2020
OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - The entrustment of the nation under the mantle of Mary Help of Christians amid the pandemic
Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - The feast of St Mary Help of Christians was an opportunity to entrust Papua New Guinea to the Lord and place it under the loving mantle of the Mother of God, in the difficult time of the pa ...
18 May 2020
OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Catholics do not believe in magic: the commitment to eradicate the violent practices of superstition
Bereina (Agenzia Fides) - "The police rescued two women while a crowd of five hundred people watched them being tortured, stabbed and burned with iron bars. A few weeks ago this news was on the front page of the national ...
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