Barrick Gold has suspended operations at its Porgera gold mine in Papua New Guinea until Thursday after tribal violence in ...

Violent attacks near Barrick Gold's Porgera gold mine in Papua New Guinea (PNG) has likely killed at least 20 people and forced women and children to flee the region, local media reported.

The New Zealand pilot who’s been held hostage for more than a year in the restive Papua region has been freed by separatist ...

Father Giovanni Battista Mazzucconi, an Italian missionary, was one of the early martyrs of the Catholic Church in Papua New ...

The company says activity at the mine will remain suspended until Thursday for the protection of its employees ...

Pope Francis has arrived in the remote jungles of Papua New Guinea. He landed in Vanimo, on the northwest coast of the ...

PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea -- Pope Francis boarded an Australian Royal Air Force C-130 on Sunday and flew over the pristine jungles of Papua New Guinea, travelling to the faraway settlement of ...

The pope emphasized that “the language of love, the language of closeness, the language of service” is what can unite people ...

The 87-year-old is in the middle of a 12-day trip to Southeast Asia, which includes seven flights covering more than 20,000 ...

The long trip by a frail, 87-year-old pope was seen as a bold endeavor and a muscular step for a global church looking East.

HONG KONG, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 jolted Papua New Guinea Region at 08:41 GMT on Thursday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicenter ...

Excavators have begun clearing land in the Indonesian region of Papua in what’s been described as the largest deforestation ...