Traditional owners started the blockade claiming they're owed compensation from the Papua New Guinea government. Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs says it's monitoring the situation ...

A United Nations official says between 20 and 50 people have been killed in violence among illegal miners in Papua New Guinea ...

In his first general audience since returning from the longest international trip of his pontificate, the Pope expressed ...

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 emphasized the importance of the Catholic Church reaching marginalized groups while in Papua New Guinea, a ...

Vanuatu: Fourth, Indonesia-Vanuatu cooperation. Although Vanuatu is known as a country that is consistent and steadfast in ...

Pope Francis was greeted Sunday afternoon by a crowd of 20,000 people in what he had called “the periphery of the peripheries,” the coastal city of Vanimo in Papua New Guinea. Located in the northwest ...

Twenty-one aged care workers from Papua New Guinea (PNG) graduated in Brisbane today with Australian standard qualifications ...

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VANIMO, Papua New Guinea — (AP) — Pope Francis traveled to the remote jungles of Papua New Guinea on Sunday to celebrate the ...

Pope Francis traveled to the remote jungles of Papua New Guinea on Sunday to celebrate the Catholic Church on the peripheries, bringing with him a ton of medicine, musical instruments and a message of ...