Tag: Christmas
Fiji pro-Palestine nativity scene exposes Gaza as ‘hell on earth’ at...
Asia Pacific Report
Fiji activists have recreated the nativity scene at a solidarity for Palestine gathering in Fiji's capital Suva just days before Christmas.
The Fiji...
Revered Papuan chief Lukas Enembe ‘tortured to death like a boiling...
The usually festive Christmas season in West Papua was marred by the death of beloved Papua Governor and Chief Lukas Enembe in an Indonesian...
Benny Wenda: A West Papuan Christmas message
CHRISTMAS MESSAGE: By Benny Wenda
As 2022 draws to a close, I would like to thank everyone who has supported the West Papuan struggle this...
Thousands to miss Christmas thanks to covid-19 – how to avoid...
RNZ News
Thousands of people will be cancelling their Christmas Day plans thanks to the invisible grinch, covid-19.
Leading epidemiologist Professor Michael Baker estimates 85,000 people...
PNG police warn of crackdown on lawbreakers during festive period
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea lawbreakers who disrupt public order and ruin other people’s festive season will be arrested, charged and...
Herald scolds world over contrast between space and earthly wins
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
New Zealand's leading daily newspaper has praised the "gift of inspiration" over global cooperation in launching the James Webb space telescope...
Christmas on the street for PNG survivor of jailed wife basher
By Rebecca Kuku and Marjorie Finkeo in Port Moresby
As families prepare to celebrate Christmas with their loved ones, a safe house in Papua New...
The uninvited Christmas guest: Is New Zealand prepared for omicron’s inevitable...
ANALYSIS: By Matthew Hobbs, University of Canterbury and Lukas Marek, University of Canterbury
As New Zealand gets ready for the festive season under the new...
A belated Papua Christmas morning story from Nduga’s internal refugees
By Benny Mawel in Jayapura
"Merry Christmas, 25 December 2020," says the graffiti displayed in the yard of the Nduga student dormitory in the study...
40-day ‘fasting for West Papua’ protest ends soon – but still...
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
An appeal for a 40-day fast across the region by the Pacific Council of Churches in support of West Papua closes...
Bryce Edwards: Ardern’s Labour government stands by as NZ social problems...
ANALYSIS: By Bryce Edwards
How determined are Labour to take the necessary steps to fix inequality and poverty? Will electoral calculations triumph over their principles...
True Christmas story: What history really tells us about the birth...
ANALYSIS: By Robyn J. Whitaker in Melbourne
I might be about to ruin your Christmas. Sorry. But the reality is those nativity plays in which...