Pope Francis meets with the Papua New Guinea's Governor General Sir Bob Dadae at Government House in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024. Credit: AP/Guglielmo Mangiapane ...

Pope Francis takes part in a meeting with Catholic faithful of the diocese of Vanimo in front of Holy Cross Cathedral in Vanimo, Papua New Guinea, on Sept. 8, 2024.

On Sept. 8, Pope Francis visited the remote town of Vanimo, Papua New Guinea, using his ambitious two-week tour in Asia and Oceania to put a spotlight on the Catholic Church in the peripheries.

Pope Francis celebrated the Catholic Church of the peripheries during his trip to the remote jungles of Papua New Guinea. Gregorio Borgia / AP Vanimo, population 11,000, certainly fits the bill.

Papua New Guinea will join a handful of countries to open an embassy in Jerusalem, a decision long sought by pro-Israel church groups in the deeply Christian Pacific nation, and as Prime Minister ...

According to U.N. Women, 60% of Papua New Guinea’s women have experienced physical or sexual violence from an intimate partner at some time in their lives, double the global average.

Papua New Guinea marks the furthest from Rome he's ever been. The Pope's next stop: Timor-Leste, where over 97% of the population identifies as Catholic.

Francis is the second pope to visit Papua New Guinea, after St. John Paul II visited first in 1984, then in 1995 to beatify Peter To Rot, a Catholic layman who was declared a martyr for the faith ...

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Pope Francis has called for the Catholic Church in Papua New Guinea to be particularly close to women who have been abused and marginalized By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press Sep 7, 2024 Sep 7 ...