MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) -- Violence among illegal miners in Papua New Guinea has left between 20 and 50 people dead, a United Nations official said Monday.

Australia has loaned millions to PNG, despite the government’s issues with unaccountable and nontransparent spending.

UN official says 20-to-50 people have been killed in Papua New Guinea violence ...

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.

When Pope Francis visited the remote jungles of Papua New Guinea, he landed in Vanimo, on the northwest coast of the country, ...

VANIMO, Papua New Guinea (AP) — Pope Francis celebrated the Catholic Church of the peripheries on Sunday as he traveled to ...

With a 21-cannon salute, Pope Francis was welcomed to Papua New Guinea Sept. 6, the second stop on his four-nation visit to ...

PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea — Pope Francis held an open-air mass for tens of thousands of Papua New Guinea’s faithful on Sunday, imploring this nation “at the edge of the world” to draw ...

Approximately 35,000 Catholics from across Papua New Guinea and Oceania came together at the venue, united in their faith and buoyed by the uplifting chants of the Port Moresby Catholic choir’s ...

Pope calls for sustainable development of PNG's resources Pope appeals for end to tribal violence, Bougainville resolution PNG governor-general thanks pope for humanitarian advocacy PORT MORESBY ...

ope Francis will arrive in one of the world's most remote Catholic communities in Papua New Guinea on Sunday to something approaching home: a group of Argentine missionaries who plan to welcome ...