Blessed Peter To Rot, the first Catholic from Papua New Guinea expected to be named a saint later this year, was “an example ...

St. John Paul II visited Papua New Guinea in 1984 and 1995, where he beatified Peter To Rot, a married catechist and second-generation local Christian. One of the country's current senior prelates ...

In the first Ordinary Public Consistory of his pontificate, Pope Leo XIV sets the date for the canonisation of eight Blesseds ...

University of Michigan biologist Fred Kraus identified four new tree snake species in Papua New Guinea, highlighting the region's rich but understudied biodiversity. These discoveries, found on ...

Following Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s May 2025 re-election, Australia is advancing a historic defence treaty with Papua New Guinea. Rooted in shared history and strategic urgency amid ...

The doors of St Peters basilica have ... and worked at the Vatican's St Peter's parish office. She told Pacific Waves that when she met the Pope in 2022 for an "ad limina" visit with the bishops from ...

Thousands of people began filing through St. Peter’s Basilica to pay their ... there’s no East or West.” Papua New Guinea’s first and only cardinal, John Ribat, prepared Wednesday to ...

The body of Pope Francis will be moved Wednesday morning to St. Peter's Basilica for three ... are expected to pass through the basilica. Papua New Guinea's 1st and only cardinal will attend ...

Find him on Twitter @GabeWhisnant. A tsunami warning was issued for Papua New Guinea following a powerful 6.9 magnitude earthquake, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The tsunami warning was ...

(AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis) Postcards of Pope Francis are sold outside St. Peter’s Square, at the Vatican, Tuesday, April 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) A woman shows pictures of Pope John Paul ...

Pope Francis has approved the decree for the canonization of Blessed Peter To Rot, a layman from Papua New Guinea martyred for the faith ... In 1930, at the age of 18, Rot was enrolled at St. Paul's ...