Separatist rebels in Indonesia’s restive Papua region have warned that military attacks in recent days to rescue a New ...

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A United Nations official says between 20 and 50 people have been killed in violence among illegal miners in Papua New Guinea ...

Catholic Church said the Papua New Guinea prime minister showed a lack of respect for keeping Pope Francis waiting.

Local officials say an influx of weapons into the remote highlands has exacerbated the violence between rival groups.

Father Giovanni Battista Mazzucconi, an Italian missionary, was one of the early martyrs of the Catholic Church in Papua New ...

Between 20 and 50 people have been killed in violence among illegal miners in Papua New Guinea, a UN official says.

so it remains to be seen what effect this will have," Bagossy said, referring to the army and police. Bagossy did not have information on the numbers wounded. Papua New Guinea police did not respond ...

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

Pope Francis called for an end to tribal violence in Papua New Guinea and highlighted the issue of violence against women as ...