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Papua New Guinea chief Mundiya Kepanga, looks at Pope Francis during the weekly general audience on May 8 in St Peter's Square at The Vatican. Kepanga is one of five 'Guardians of the Forest,' a group of indigenous leaders from each continent who work to create awareness of the state of the natural environment. Pope Francis has shown a determination to meet his flock in the farthest corners of the globe and when he touches down in Port Moresby on Sept.
But where MacKillop was made a saint in 2010, efforts to have To Rot canonized as PNG’s first saint have stalled amid complaints that a lack of resources had stymied investigations into miracle healings as required by the Vatican. It was a point made clear in May when Francis held a private audience with Mundiya Kepanga, an indigenous leader and environmentalist, who expressed his tribe’s concerns as part of preparations for the upcoming tour, the third papal visit.
“May the Lord comfort their families, those who lost their homes and the Papuan people, whom, God willing, I will meet next September,” the pope said during a The PNG tour will follow a five-day visit to Muslim-dominated Indonesia where the pope intends to build on between Islam and Christianity but human rights issues in regions like conflict-torn Papua, which also shares a border with PNG, remain a serious concern.
Others are also hopeful this papal tour will make a difference, not just for PNG’s two million Catholics, which is just under 30 percent of the population, but also for stranded, predominantly Muslim, refugees.
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