A New Zealand pilot held hostage for more than a year in the restive Papua region was freed by separatist rebels, Indonesian ...

Papua was incorporated into Indonesia in 1969 under a United Nations-sponsored ballot that was widely seen as a sham.

The 87-year-old Pope Francis publicly thanked God for allowing him "to do as an old pope what I would have liked to do as a ...

News Corp reports that the federal government has reached an agreement in principle with the ARL Commission to fund the NRL's ...

Days of tribal violence in Papua New Guinea’s mountainous interior have left more than 35 people dead, a police official said on Tuesday. Police Assistant Commissioner Joseph Tondon in Enga province ...

DILI, East Timor (AP) — It was the farthest trip of his pontificate and one of the longest papal trips ever in terms of days ...

During his flight back to Rome, Francis also rejected media speculation by saying he would not travel to Paris in December ...

The 11-day trip, which earlier took him to Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and East Timor, is the longest for the 87-year-old ...

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

Pope Francis emphasized the importance of a Catholic Church serving marginalized communities during his trip to Papua New ...

Your subscription has been successful. Later on Sunday, the pope will travel even further into the “periphery”, to the remote jungle town of Vanimo, in Papua New Guinea’s northwest.

In his homily, the Pope drew on the day’s Gospel reading about Jesus healing a deaf man, to emphasize the importance of ...