Religious Topics: When was the Dobu Church built? Answer: The Dobu Island Church building was built in 1929. It was commissioned by Liuetenant Governor of Papua, Sir Hubert Murray on the 12th of June ...
Religious Topics: Is there a Lutheran church in Kundiawa? Answer: Yes - there is an Lutheran church in Kundiawa. – Thanks to Linda at Air Niugini for that answer. ...
Morobe: What is the oldest Lutheran Church in Lae? Answer: St Andrew's Lutheran Church at Ampo. It was built on the 4th of March 1933 and dedicated on the 8th of October 1933. It survived the ...
Religious Topics: How much was the land that Dogura Cathedral is built on cost? Answer: It appears the Dogura Cathedral land cost ten tomahawks, ten big knives, ten small knives, twenty-five pipes, thirty pounds of tobacco, five shirts, a piece ...
Religious Topics: Where can I find some of the history of the Anglican Church? Answer: Most of the Anglican Church history can be found at -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglican_Church_of_Papua_New_Guinea
It is also worthwhile to visit -- http://portmoresby.anglican.org/index.html
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Religious Topics: What are some of the Church run schools in PNG? Answer: Without the efforts of the various Churches in PNG education would grind to a halt. There are too many schools to mention them all but ...
Religious Topics: When was the Nazarene Church first establsihed in PNG? Answer: The first Nazarene Church was established at Kudjip, South Wahgi district of the Western Highlands Province by the pioneer missionaries Sidni Knox and his wife ...
Religious Topics: South Seas Evangelical Church in PNG? Answer: Retry your search by just entering Evangelical Church as the search term. That should return some information. ...
Religious Topics: Who is in charge of the Gutnius Church? Answer: The Gutnius Lutheran Church is based in Wabag, Enga Province, and is headed by Bishop David Piso. (2008) ...
Religious Topics: What year was the "new look" St Jospeh's Church opened? Answer: The "new look" St Joseph's Catholic Church was officially opened on the 28th of May 2006. It was officially opened by the parish priest at ...
Religious Topics: Where can I find out about the Anglican Church in PNG? Answer: As a starting point I would recommend the Port Moresby Anglican Diocesian website at -- http://portmoresby.anglican.org -- whilst this is not for the whole of ...
Religious Topics: What is the biggest Protestant church in PNG? Answer: The ELC-PNG (Lutheran) is the largest Protestant church in PNG. It has a membership of approximately 900,000, with congregations in all parts of the country. ...
Politics: What style has the PNG Parliament house beeen built in? Answer: The Parliament house building is constructed in the style of a traditional Sepik River Haus Tambaran, or Spirit House. Artists and craftsmen from various villages ...
Gulf: Where is Araimiri? Answer: As far as I know Araimiri is West of Kerema n Gulf province. There is a Catholic Church there. ...
Religious Topics: When did the Catholics land on Woodlark Island? Answer: In 1848 Catholic Marist Brothers landed on Woodlark Island. In 1891 Methodist landed on Dobu Island and adopted Dobu as the language to spread the ...
Religious Topics: Who are the United Church regional Bishops in PNG? Answer: August 2011 - The regional Bishops are
East Central Papua Region Rev Laka RenagiWest Central Papua Region Rev Vasi GadikiWestern Region Rev Lawes WaeaPapuan Gulf ...
Religious Topics: What year did the Catholic Church start in PNG? Answer: In 1844, Pope Gregory XVI erected the Vicariate Apostolic of Micronesia and Melanesia entrusting it to the Missionary congregation of the Society of Mary.
A ...
East Sepik: What was the the Peli Association? Answer: The Peli Association originated in 1969 with the indigenous apocalypticist Matias Yaliwan and backed up by a mangerial side kick Daniel Hawina. Yaliwan and Hawina ...
Religious Topics: Who were the New Guinea Martyrs? Answer: The New Guinea Martyrs were Anglican clergy, teachers and medical missionaries, killed by the Japanese in 1942.
http://anglicanhistory.org/aus/png/rowland_faithful1964.html
The Revd. Henry Matthews, Priest at Moresby. Although over ...
Religious Topics: What is so special about Kaieta in Milne Bay Province? Answer: Kaieta is the location where the first Anglican Missionaries landed in Milne Bay over 100 years ago. It is near Wamira / Wedau / Dogura.
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Shipping: What was the Malaita? Answer: The Malaita built by Barclay Curie at Glasgow in 1933, for Burns Philp, was a motorship of 3,310 gross tons, 1833 net 3530 deadweight. She ...
Religious Topics: Is there a website for interfaith discussion for PNGns? Answer: Not that I am aware of.
** PNG Religious Sites **
Anglican Church of PNG (Diocese of Port Moresby) -- http://portmoresby.anglican.orgBible Society Work in PNG -- http://www.biblesociety.org/bs-pap.htmCatholic ...
Shipping: When was the "MV SEPIK SPIRIT" constructed? Answer: The "MV SEPIK SPIRIT" was constructed in 1989 and was built to the specifications to suit the demands of a shallow draft expeditionary vessel for ...
Religious Topics: When did the first Lutheran missionaries come to PNG? Answer: The first Lutheran missionaries came to the island of New Guinea in 1886, sent by German mission societies. There were major disruptions in the German ...
General: Traditional Money? Answer: umm, good question. Bagi springs to mind but of course there is Tabu, mwali, doba and a whole lot more. Start by searching -- http://michie.net/pnginfo/moni.html
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Accommodation: Where can I stay in Mendi? Answer: Kiburu Lodge is located at an altitude of 1,750 metres (5,700 feet) on the banks of the Mendi River on the outskirts of Mendi. The ...
Religious Topics: How do PNG celebrate Christmas? Answer: As PNG is a Christian country the people of PNG celebrate Christmas in a similar way to other Christian Countries. Most people attend a Church ...
Transportation: Where is snake road? Answer: This is probably the road from Port Moresby to Sogeri built by the Australians to allow supplies and vehicles access as far as possible. Built ...
PNG People: Who was Wilson Waesa? Answer: Wilson Waesa was a pioneer national officer of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. He was from Awar village, Tolokiwa island, in the Siassi group of islands, Morobe ...
Accommodation: Where can I stay near Lake Kutubu? Answer: Once yoy could stay at Tubo Lodge, situated on an atoll overlooking the Lake. The lodge was built by the local people to allow visitors ...
Communication: What is CRMF? Answer: CRMF is Christian Radio Missionary Fellowship.
Christian Radio Missionary Fellowship exists in response to the commission of Jesus Christ to take the Gospel into all the ...
Autonomous Region of Bougainville: Who was Francis Hagai? Answer: Francis Hagai (c.1940-1974), cult leader, was born about 1940 at Hahalis, Buka Island, Bougainville district, in the mandated Territory of New Guinea. He completed primary ...
Shipping: How many submarines have visited PNG? Answer: Sorry, I am not able to answer that question. I would assume there would have been many World War II visits especially around Rabaul by the ...
National Capital: Where is the De la Salle School? Answer: The De la Salle Secondary School is in Port Moresby. The school started on the 25th of Feb 1946 (just after WWII ended) by the De La ...
Shipping: SS Matunga Answer: The SS Matunga was built in 1900, 1,618 tons as the SS Zweena.
Burns Philp purchased this in 1909 from Mersey SS Co., Liverpool and renamed it Matunga.
On ...
Accommodation: Where can I stay near Kimbe? Answer: Located past the town of Kimbe and about 80 Kilometres from Hoskins airport, Walindi Plantation Resort is the home to Walindi Diving and the home ...
Shipping: How long is the Melanesian Explorer? Answer: It was a 130ft. passenger vessel owned by Melanesian Tourist Services originally built as a Japanese ferry. ...
Morobe: When did Bugandi High School start? Answer: Bugandi High School in Morobe province was built in 1959. This required ten acres of rainforest to be cleared so that two classrooms, a dormitory, two ...
PNG People: Who is Michael Varapik? Answer: Michael Varapik won the 2015 Male Director of the Year Award, for his role on the boards of landowner companies, in addition to his support ...
Shipping: Was the Monotoro sunk during the 2nd world war? Answer: The SS Montoro, a steel, screw steamship of 4,057 gross tons, 2500 net; built by the Clyde Shipbuilding and Engineering Co. Ltd. at Port Glasgow, ...
Shipping: MV Capella? Answer: The ketch Capella was delivered to PNG from Adelaide (Australia) by Bill Brown in mid the 1960's. It was a commercial grain carrying sailing boat with flax ...
General: Where is the Airmen's Memorial School? Answer: The Airmen's Memorial School is the school mentioned in the book "The School That Fell from The Sky", it was built with money raised by Fred ...
PNG People: Who was Oseah Philemon? Answer: Oseah Philemon was a veteran PNG journalist.
OP, as he was commonly known, died on Christmas Eve on Saturday the 24th of December 2016.
His funeral service ...
Aviation: Is there a list of PNG pilots flying overseas? Answer: If you do a search for Narara on these pages you will find three members of the Narara family that have been successful flying overseas.
In ...
General: Where was Dame Rose Kekedo born? Answer: Dame Rose Violet Kekedo was of mixed Milne Bay and Central Province parentage. She was born in 1942 in Abau where her father worked as ...
Accommodation: Do stilt houses ever fall down? Answer: I remember seeing a picture in one of the local newspapers on the 19th of July 2001 showing a collapsed house at Hanuabada Village (Port ...
Mountains: How many volcanoes are near Rabaul in East New Britain? Answer: Rabaul is built on an ancient volcanic crater. At one stage it was surrounded by six volcanoes. As volcanoes can virtually develop or disappear overnight ...
Sport: Where is the Sir Ignatius Kilage stadium? Answer: The Sir Ignatius Kilage stadium (SIK) is located in Lae, Morobe province. It was named after Sir Ignatius Kilage (1941 – 31 December 1989) who ...
General: Who was John Kawi? Answer: From The National newspaper -- http://giaman.com/s/ab
The late retired Judge, John Kawi, who was one of the country’s prominent nlegal minds, died in May 2017 in his fifties.
His ...
Aviation: VH-AFA Answer: This aircraft was constructed at the Douglas Long Beach plant - June 1943
Built as a Douglas C-47A-35-DL under Contract No. AC-20669
Delivered to the United States ...
Shipping: HMAS Curlew Answer: The Curlew served Australia for 28 years – clearing Second World War mines from the waters around Papua New Guinea. The Curlew was built in 1953 ...
Shipping: What are Guardian-class patrol boats? Answer: They are Patrol Boats. PNG has four Guardian-class patrol boats delivered through the Australian Defence Force Pacific Maritime Security program. The 39.5 metre steel patrol boats are designed and ...
Aviation: Where is Vunakanau Airfield Answer: Vunakanau Airfield was an aerodrome located near Vunakanau, East New Britain, It was approximately 10 miles south-west of Rabaul and it was also known as ...
