The Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea has announced that its Provincial Council last week approved and accepted the Anglican Covenant. Writing to the Secretary General of the decision on behalf of the House of Bishops, the Bishop of Port Moresby, the Rt Revd Peter Ramsden, said the decision was based on their understanding of the name Anglican Communion.
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The decision making body of the Anglican Church of PNG (ACPNG), known as the Provincial Council has elected a new Archbishop of the Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea. The election took place at the Provincial Council Meeting which was held in Port Moresby on 11th June 2010
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On Friday 6 March over 3 million people worldwide will be praying and worshipping together during an annual day of prayer, using a service prepared by Christian Women in Papua New Guinea. Papua New Guinea is a land of many ethnic groups and over 800 distinct languages of which more than half are unrelated. As a result, there is great cultural diversity, yet the women of Papua New Guinea have emphasised the oneness there is in Christ.
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Editor's Note: This message came to ACNS via the PNG Church Partnership in UK and Chris Luxton.
...A belated acknowledgement of the situation in Popondota Diocese. I received the news about the disaster which hit Popondota Diocese, during my Diocesan Synod, so we ended the Synod three days earlier to the actual closing day.
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Father Kopapa is currently the Chaplain of Martyrs' Memorial School near Popondetta, the Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea's oldest high school. The date of his consecration has yet been set, but it is likely to take place in January 2006.
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Two recent actions within the Anglican Communion are viewed with deep sadness by the Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea - the authorization of a Public Rite of blessing for those in same sex relationships in the Diocese of New Westminster, Anglican Church of Canada, and the consecration of a divorced priest now living in a same sex relationship in the diocese of New Hampshire, Episcopal Church of the USA
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John and Della Rea have been invited by Anglican Primate of Papua New Guinea, the Most Revd James Ayong, to work for the Province as Project & Development Officers, as the Church copes with a deteriorating economic and social situation. They will share responsibilities, fulfilling a long cherished wish to work again in a developing country. John and Della come from the Edinburgh diocese, where they are members of the Scottish Episcopal Church.
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Fr Roger Jupp was born in London in 1956 and was brought up in Blackheath. He was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham Boys' Grammar School 1968-1974 and then read Theology at St Edmund Hall, Oxford 1975-1978. The following year he worked as a Nursing Auxiliary at St Christopher's Hospice for the terminally ill in SE London before going to train for the priesthood at Chichester Theological College. It was there that he first became aware of the life of the Anglican Church in Papua New Guinea through the annual commemoration of Father Vivian Redlich, one of the New Guinera Martyrs, who was trained at the seminary in the 1930s.
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The Revd Peter Fox, AKC, present General Secretary of the Melanesian Mission and Rector of Harpsden in Oxfordshire, was elected Bishop of Port Moresby following a joint meeting of the House of Bishops and the Bishop Appointment Committee held on 4th September.
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The House of Bishops of the Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea is horrified by Press reports today, that amendments to the Gaming Machine Act of 1993 were rushed through Parliament on Tuesday, without proper consideration and debate.
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Today, I simply want to give my Easter message in the form of reflection on the above paradoxical statement of our risen Lord and Saviour, in the context of the current situation of our Nation, as encouragement to all Christians in Papua New Guinea.
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(CT) The Archbishop of Papua New Guinea the Most Revd James Ayong, thanks all who have given to the PNG Church Partnership drought appeal which has so far realised more than £10,000 from the UK, with further support from Australia.
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Up to 695,000 people are now at severe risk of starvation or serious illness, PNG's senior drought coordinator has warned.
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The worst drought in living memory has inflicted severe damage on the fragile economy of Papua New Guinea. The Anglican Church is appealing for financial support to help the country meet the crisis.
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Papua New Guinea's worst drought in decades has prompted the Anglican Board of Mission in Australia to launch an emergency relief fund. Lucy Palmer, a PNG based journalist, writes that the gardens have withered, the earth is scorched and the weak and elderly are starting to die. "In another month thousands of our closest neighbours could be facing their worst famine this century," she writes.
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"The Church in Papua New Guinea (PNG) is being shaken up. It will be interesting to see how God will lead us, to speak to and contain these changes", says the new Archbishop-elect of Papua New Guinea. Bishop James Ayong was in Australia this month for a 10-day visit. It is a month since his election as Primate, and a year since his consecration as the Bishop of Aipo Rongo (succeeding Paul Richardson, now in Wangaratta). He is to be enthroned Archbishop of PNG on 13 July at All Souls', Lae, the church where he was ordained deacon 13 years ago.
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The Rt Revd James Ayong, the Bishop Aipo Rongo, has been elected the new Archbishop of the Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea (PNG) by the Provincial Council. He will succeed the Most Revd Bevan Meredith who has retired. Bishop James Ayong has been the Bishop of Aipo Rongo for a year. He was formerly a parish priest of Gerehu parish in the Diocese of Port Moresby before he succeeded Bishop Paul Richardson as Bishop last May.
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