Pilipinos have always revered the natural world since the pre-colonial practice of animism (worship of the natural world). In fact, they used animist practices as a foundation for Catholicism. Asia ...

In the hustle and bustle of modern life, it’s easy to forget that everything around us holds a spirit. We often become entangled in our routines, neglecting to notice the beauty and life that coexist ...

It was a reference to the tribal violence over land and other disputes that have long characterized the country's culture but ...

VANIMO, Papua New Guinea — (AP) — Pope Francis celebrated the Catholic Church of the peripheries on Sunday as he traveled to ...

VANIMO, Papua New Guinea (AP) — Pope Francis celebrated the Catholic Church of the peripheries on Sunday as he traveled to ...

PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (AP) — Pope Francis honored the Catholic Church of the peripheries on Sunday as he celebrated ...

VANIMO, Papua New Guinea (AP) — Pope Francis celebrated the Catholic Church of the peripheries on Sunday as he traveled to the remote jungles of Papua New Guinea, bringing with him a ton of medicine, ...

Pope Francis’s visit to Papua New Guinea will take him to a remote part of the South Pacific island nation where Christianity is a recent addition to traditional spiritual beliefs developed over ...

The visit is an extraordinary religious highlight in an area where Christian missionaries did not arrive until 1961, and where the religion coexists with traditional ancestor worship, animism and ...

They were apparently offended by his reasoned, Christian, theological critique of what he described as Aboriginal Animism and its ‘fruit: division and rebellion’. Surely, Pellowe asserted, ‘These are ...