Papua New Guinea (PNG) is richly endowed with natural resources, but exploitation has been hampered by rugged terrain, land tenure issues, and the high cost of developing infrastructure. The ...
Pope Francis is honoring the Catholic Church of the peripheries in Papua New Guinea. He is heading to a remote part of the ...
Papua New Guinea has given police permission to use “lethal force” to restore order as shootouts between rival tribes have killed dozens of people. Between 20 and 50 people have been killed in ...
Pope Francis will be visiting the country of Papua New Guinea Sept. 6-9 as part of an 11-day, multi-country papal trip. But he won’t be the first pope to set foot on the South Pacific island ...
PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea — Pope Francis arrived in Papua New Guinea on Friday for the second leg of his four-nation trip through Southeast Asia and Oceania, becoming the second pope ...
Pope to Meet Papua New Guinea Catholics Who Embrace Both Christianity and Indigenous Beliefs MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Pope Francis’s visit to Papua New Guinea will take him to a remote ...
Papua New Guinea hosts some 11,800 asylum seekers and refugees. Around 100 people were transferred there under PNG’s former regional processing arrangement with Australia, most from Indonesia.