CLOSE
  • News
  • Analysis
  • Reportage
    • Pacific Report
    • Asia Report
    • APJS newsfile
    • Climate
  • Country
    • Pacific Report
      • Australia
      • Cook Islands
      • Federated States of Micronesia
      • Fiji
      • Kiribati
      • Marshall Islands
      • Nauru
      • New Caledonia
      • New Zealand
      • Niue
      • Palau-Belau
      • Papua New Guinea
      • Rapanui
      • Samoa
      • Solomon Islands
      • Tahiti
      • Timor-Leste
      • Tokelau
      • Tonga
      • Tuvalu
      • Vanuatu
      • West Papua
    • Asia Report
      • Brunei
      • Cambodia
      • China
      • Indonesia
      • Lao
      • Malaysia
      • Myanmar
      • Philippines
      • Singapore
      • Vietnam
      • Thailand
      • Other
  • Editor’s Picks
  • Multimedia
    • Multimedia
    • PMC on Demand
    • Audio
    • Gallery
    • Video
  • PMC on Demand
Sunday, July 5, 2026
  • Login
  • About Asia Pacific Report
  • Contact
  • EveningReport.nz
  • Pacific Media Centre
Asia Pacific Report
Asia Pacific Report Asia Pacific Report
  • News
  • Analysis
  • Reportage
    • Pacific Report
    • Asia Report
    • APJS newsfile
    • Climate
  • Country
    • Pacific Report
      • Australia
      • Cook Islands
      • Federated States of Micronesia
      • Fiji
      • Kiribati
      • Marshall Islands
      • Nauru
      • New Caledonia
      • New Zealand
      • Niue
      • Palau-Belau
      • Papua New Guinea
      • Rapanui
      • Samoa
      • Solomon Islands
      • Tahiti
      • Timor-Leste
      • Tokelau
      • Tonga
      • Tuvalu
      • Vanuatu
      • West Papua
    • Asia Report
      • Brunei
      • Cambodia
      • China
      • Indonesia
      • Lao
      • Malaysia
      • Myanmar
      • Philippines
      • Singapore
      • Vietnam
      • Thailand
      • Other
  • Editor’s Picks
    • In Dunedin Ōtepoti yesterday . . . walking from St Kilda beach to St Clair beach, Palestine will be free
      Asia Report

      John Minto: The shame of NZ’s betrayal of Gaza’s children

      Fehi Fineanganofo garlanded by family speaks to the media after the All Blacks defeated France 34-32 in Christchurch
      Culture

      ‘Pasifika’ All Blacks claim bloody and physical Nations rugby test against…

      Beyond the Bubble
      AI

      Why the AI bubble will burst – with system threatening consequences

      Pro-Palestine and anti-war protesters picket the US Consulate in Auckland during today's "US Invasion Day" rally
      Afghanistan

      July 4th anniversary – speakers at NZ rally slam American ‘freedom…

      A poster highlighting the New Zealand government's role in the Western complicity over the Gaza genocide
      Analysis

      Gaza genocide – how many UN findings will the West ignore?

  • Multimedia
    • Multimedia
    • PMC on Demand
    • Audio
    • Gallery
    • Video
  • PMC on Demand
Home Religion

Religion

7 days popular
  • Latest
  • Featured posts
  • Most popular
  • 7 days popular
  • By review score
  • Random
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi
Religion

Lim Tean: Marco Rubio embarrasses himself – and America – over Iran

APR editor -
June 25, 2026
A mini banner inspired and dedicated to Fijians for Palestine Solidarity Network and the Fiji Women's Crisis Centre protests
Religion

Fijians for Palestine – an antidote to ‘Suva sycophancy’ over Israel

How global news channel Al Jazeera reported the death of Pope Francis at 88
Religion

Pope Francis dies one day after first post-hospital public appearance and with final plea for Gaza

Papua's Tom Beanal
Religion

Thom Beanal – saluting a human rights legacy for Papua’s ‘father’

Holy Shit. Cartoon by Mr Fish
Religion

Chris Hedges: The political dysfunction of Trump as God

Australia's Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism Jillian Segal (from left), Dr Michael Abrahams-Sprod, and vice-chancellor Mark Scott at Sydney University
Religion

Sydney Uni appoints antisemitism ‘lecturer’, forgets to tell anybody

Wendy Bacon -
April 22, 2026
0
PNG's Catholic Archbishop of Port Moresby Cardinal Sir John Ribat welcomes Pope Francis during his four nation Pacific and Southeast Asian tour
Religion

Pope Francis – a message of peace and real change in...

Asia Pacific -
September 15, 2024
0
Sāmoan Prime Minister Laaulialemalietoa Polataivao Schmidt
Religion

Sāmoa set to become third Pacific nation to open Jerusalem embassy

APR editor -
January 11, 2026
0
A 2017 constitutional amendment still guarantees individuals freedom of religion, belief and worship in Sāmoa
Religion

Mixed reactions over Samoan PM’s proposal to ban non-Christian religions

APR editor -
January 12, 2026
0
University students in Adelaide protesting over Israel's genocide in Gaza
Religion

Jewish Council slams Australian universities’ ‘dangerous, politicised’ antisemitism definition

APR editor -
February 26, 2025
0
Another shelter day for the Tangata Tuārangi RSE workers
Religion

Cyclone Gabrielle: Pasifika songs of gratitude ring out across Hawke’s Bay

APR editor -
February 18, 2023
0
A state visit to Australia "presented to us not as diplomacy, not as geopolitics, not as a strategic signal, but as 'healing'"
Religion

What is Israel’s Herzog doing in Australia – who invited him,...

APR editor -
February 2, 2026
0
NZ pilot Philip Mehrtens
Religion

Papuan church leaders call on Jokowi to stop military ops over...

APR editor -
April 28, 2023
0
Pope Leo and US President Donald Trump
Religion

Pope’s message for peace: ‘The Church cannot remain silent when power...

APR editor -
April 5, 2026
0
Cardinal David of the Philippines
Religion

Cardinal David slams Israel, says Jesus would have been born in...

APR editor -
December 26, 2024
0
French gendarmes in law and order operations in Kanaky New Caledonia
Religion

Open letter to President Macron: End Kanak vote ‘unfreezing’ and complete...

APR editor -
June 6, 2024
0
Religion

New report tells of murder, kidnapping and torture in West Papua

APR editor -
March 14, 2016
3
South Korean Christian doomsday cult Grace Road Church
Religion

Fiji’s Immigration Minister steps down temporarily over ‘unauthorised’ passports for cult...

APR editor -
November 23, 2024
0
Porirua Cemetery manager Daniel Chrisp speaks at the Family Forum beside the chapel, as Mayor Anita Baker and whānau gather to honour 1800 patients buried in unmarked graves
Religion

Pacific leaders demand respectful involvement in memorial for unmarked graves

APR editor -
July 21, 2025
0
Rabaul's Archbishop Rochus Tatamai
Religion

Catholic Church warns against PNG declaring itself a ‘Christian country’

APR editor -
July 3, 2025
0
A collage of the many fires on New Caledonia’s Catholic missions
Religion

New Caledonia crisis: Another church burns, spate of attacks continues

APR editor -
September 10, 2024
0
Religion

Cook Islands to follow Samoa and ban Rocketman

Pacific Media Watch -
June 17, 2019
0
New Zealand pro-Palestinian protesters march against genocide
Religion

Debunking the theological gaslighting of Israel-supporting Imams

APR editor -
July 28, 2025
0
Newly elected Pope Leo XIV appears at the balcony of St Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican
Religion

Pope Leo XIV faces limits on changing the Catholic Church −...

APR editor -
May 9, 2025
0
Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde
Religion

Standing for decency: The sermon the President didn’t want to hear

APR editor -
January 23, 2025
0
Newly elected Pope Leo XIV began his first homily with words in English instead of his fluent Italian and Spanish during mass in the Sistine Chapel with the College of Cardinals
Religion

Pacific region hopes for ‘climate-conscious’ pope, says PCC leader

APR editor -
May 10, 2025
0
Naked Samoan group comedian Oscar Kightley
Religion

‘Never our intention to mock Jesus’ – Naked Samoans respond to...

Pacific Media Watch -
April 8, 2025
0
123...8Page 1 of 8

CLIMATE AND COVID

Pacific verdict on COP29
Climate

COP29: Pacific climate advocates decry outcome as ‘a catastrophic failure’

A protester at COP29 calls on wealthy nations to "pay up"
Asia Report

COP29: Carbon credit trading scheme criticised as ‘get out of jail...

In the Eye of the Storm
Analysis

Strings attached: The reality behind NZ’s climate aid in the Pacific

Pacific Climate Warriors
Analysis

How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic

Load more

CORONAVIRUS

Senator Robert F Kennedy Jr
Coronavirus

Sir Collin Tukuitonga criticises RFK Jr’s measles claims, slams health misinformation

According to WHO, Western Pacific measles cases jumped by 225 percent
Coronavirus

Better immunisation coverage needed to prevent Pacific measles, says WHO

Labour's former broadcasting minister Willie Jackson
Coronavirus

Former broadcast minister defends NZ journalism fund, state-funded media independence

1News political editor Jessica Mutch-McKay talks to the main party leaders in last night's debate
Analysis

NZ election 2023: Exposing National leader Christopher Luxon’s Māori health falsehood...

Practices like mask wearing and self-isolation should be encouraged for all
Coronavirus

NZ’s covid-19 mandates end: GP group says some mask-wearing, self-isolation still...

The 2021 post-covid Pacific media freedom panel discussion participants
Coronavirus

Pacific media should be supported post-covid, says PJR report

Load more

BEARING WITNESS

Author and journalist Dr David Robie speaking at the launch of the third edition of the Rainbow Warrior book Eyes of Fire
Analysis

Nuclear – now climate change: New book on how great powers...

Australia, the country, as a political entity, its government, its major institutions, its official voice to the world, was quiet over the Gaza genocide
Analysis

Ignoring genocide – the bill for Australia’s silence has arrived

"I am worried about the implications of any law that bans a chant by exiled people"
Analysis

Saige England: Bearing witness – we are seeing a rise of...

West Papua's Morning Star flag of independence
Asia Report

27 years after Biak massacre in West Papua, human rights crisis...

Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior
Bearing Witness

Eyewitness account of Rainbow Warrior voyage – new Eyes of Fire...

Sawana Village on Fiji's Vanua Balavu island was partly destroyed by Cyclone Winston in 2016
APJS newsfile

Not up for debate: Fijian journalists in the climate crisis response

Tweet to @DavidRobie
Tweets by DavidRobie

APJS NEWSFILE

Fijian iTaukei leaders discuss contemporary issues, such as women's representation in Fijian society
APJS newsfile

Fijian journalists use talanoa and tradition to find their voice

Fijian women journalists face abuse, harassment and spam online.
APJS newsfile

Online abusers ‘shaming, silencing’ Fiji women journalists, say researchers

Islands Business general manager Samantha Magick (right)
APJS newsfile

Islands Business: ‘Big picture’ style journalism is the future for...

QUT student journalist Maxim Bock with Fiji TV's director of news, current affairs and sports Felix Chaudhary (right)
APJS newsfile

Surviving harassment in journalism – how Felix Chaudhary kept on top

POPULAR POSTS

The Fiji police and military have launched controversial joint security operations to take down criminal networks in the country
Crime

Fijian widow alleges husband was beaten in police raid, told to...

This latest UN report is significant because it focuses specifically on children
Analysis

A UN report details the ‘overwhelming’ scale of children killed in...

In Dunedin Ōtepoti yesterday . . . walking from St Kilda beach to St Clair beach, Palestine will be free
Asia Report

John Minto: The shame of NZ’s betrayal of Gaza’s children

Iran's head coach Amir Ghalenoei
Analysis

At the World Cup, the Western media has set up a...

EDITOR'S PICKS

In Dunedin Ōtepoti yesterday . . . walking from St Kilda beach to St Clair beach, Palestine will be free
Asia Report

John Minto: The shame of NZ’s betrayal of Gaza’s children

Fehi Fineanganofo garlanded by family speaks to the media after the All Blacks defeated France 34-32 in Christchurch
Culture

‘Pasifika’ All Blacks claim bloody and physical Nations rugby test against...

Beyond the Bubble
AI

Why the AI bubble will burst – with system threatening consequences

Pro-Palestine and anti-war protesters picket the US Consulate in Auckland during today's "US Invasion Day" rally
Afghanistan

July 4th anniversary – speakers at NZ rally slam American ‘freedom...

Load more

MOST COMMENTS

Australia

Still stealing the generations – the abduction of Indigenous Australian children...

Jacinda Ardern
Analysis

Gordon Campbell: Media collusion with National’s attack lines the real disgrace

Global

Deported Freedom Flotilla activist Mike Treen arrives back in NZ

Taiwan Day event in Suva
Asia Report

Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

GLOBAL REPORTAGE

In Dunedin Ōtepoti yesterday . . . walking from St Kilda beach to St Clair beach, Palestine will be free
Asia Report

John Minto: The shame of NZ’s betrayal of Gaza’s children

Beyond the Bubble
AI

Why the AI bubble will burst – with system threatening consequences

Pro-Palestine and anti-war protesters picket the US Consulate in Auckland during today's "US Invasion Day" rally
Afghanistan

July 4th anniversary – speakers at NZ rally slam American ‘freedom...

A poster highlighting the New Zealand government's role in the Western complicity over the Gaza genocide
Analysis

Gaza genocide – how many UN findings will the West ignore?

Editor's Picks

In Dunedin Ōtepoti yesterday . . . walking from St Kilda beach to St Clair beach, Palestine will be free

John Minto: The shame of NZ’s betrayal of Gaza’s children

July 5, 2026
Fehi Fineanganofo garlanded by family speaks to the media after the All Blacks defeated France 34-32 in Christchurch

‘Pasifika’ All Blacks claim bloody and physical Nations rugby test against...

July 5, 2026
Beyond the Bubble

Why the AI bubble will burst – with system threatening consequences

July 5, 2026
Pro-Palestine and anti-war protesters picket the US Consulate in Auckland during today's "US Invasion Day" rally

July 4th anniversary – speakers at NZ rally slam American ‘freedom...

July 4, 2026
A poster highlighting the New Zealand government's role in the Western complicity over the Gaza genocide

Gaza genocide – how many UN findings will the West ignore?

July 4, 2026
Load more

Popular Reports

Beyond the Bubble

Why the AI bubble will burst – with system threatening consequences

July 5, 2026
The Fiji police and military have launched controversial joint security operations to take down criminal networks in the country

Fijian widow alleges husband was beaten in police raid, told to...

June 30, 2026
Laurie Humuni, general secretary of the Oceanian Democratic Rally (RDO)

Pro-French, pro-independence blocs remain in New Caledonia election

June 29, 2026
"For Israeli diplomacy, the enemy is never merely the armed adversary"

Monsters playing victims – how Israel’s Danny Danon twists his war...

July 3, 2026
Pro-Palestine and anti-war protesters picket the US Consulate in Auckland during today's "US Invasion Day" rally

July 4th anniversary – speakers at NZ rally slam American ‘freedom...

July 4, 2026
Load more

POPULAR CATEGORIES

  • Pacific Report8377
  • Politics6182
  • Human Rights4827
  • Syndicate4702
  • Global4116
  • New Zealand3639
  • Indigenous3053
  • RNZ Pacific2637
  • Media2344
  • Pacific Media Watch2095
  • Asia Report2086
  • Democracy2025
  • Security1956
  • Military1839
  • Justice1785
CREATIVE COMMONS
Creative Commons LicenseCopyright: Content on Asia Pacific Report is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Contact us: newseditor@AsiaPacificReport.nz
FOLLOW US
© Site Copyright 2021 - AsiaPacificReport.nz