What was the the Peli Association?

Trevor
17/11/2015

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 stirred some 200,000 people in East Sepick province of Papua New Guinea by attributing the lack of fertility in the Torricelli Mountain region to the fact that that the Americans had desecrated Mt Hurun by placing geodesic markers on it. With thousands of people involved in their removal, it was collectively understood by Peli subscribers that cargo would miraculously come out of the mountaintop, not just the effects of re-fertilization. 30,000 people rallied to the newly built village to await the results and join in the related rituals. When nothing dramatic occurred Hawina skilfully used the presence of in-and-out Canadian Apostolic Church missionaries to start a new church (Niu Apostolik), building on the prior Peli constituency and flouting the Catholic majority in the east Sepik hinterland.

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