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From New Guinea-
For the first time, Papua New Guinea will witness an Anglican priest,
Father David Smith, also known as the Fighting Father Dave, take on
local boxer from Wanigela Luke Baro in Saturday’s first-ever Oceania
Professional Boxing championships.
One wonders as to why a priest is getting involved in the boxing contest
but the Sydney-based Anglican parish priest has something to share and
hopes the sport of boxing can be a tool for change.
When asked about being a priest and involving in professional boxing,
Smith said he got involved in the sport to change ways and lives of the
people around him.
“I spent 28 years of my life as a parish priest in Sydney. I was in
Sydney’s south before I was moved to Dulwich Hill (Sydney’s inner-west)
where that place or area was rife for drugs. I began teaching and
working with young people with drug problems and opened the church hall
as an area where local youths could do fitness and martial arts
training,” Smith said after arriving in the country.
More here-
https://postcourier.com.pg/anglican-priest-face-off-baro/
From Guinea-
During World War II, 12 Anglicans working for God's Church in PNG lost their lives. This year marks the 70th anniversary since the death of the Martyrs of New Guinea.The 12 Anglican Martyrs of PNG who died between 1942 and 1943 were Lilla Lashmar (teacher), Margery Brenchley (nurse), John Duffill (builder), Bernard Moore (priest), Mavis Parkinson (teacher), May Hayman (nurse), Vivian Redlich (priest), Lucian Tapiedi (evangelist and teacher), John Barge (priest), Henry Matthews (priest), Henry Holland (priest) and Leslie Gariardi (evangelist and teacher).We remember these brave and courageous people by celebrating Martyrs' Day on 2 September and ABM has launched a special campaign to continue God's work in PNG. The focus is on St Margaret's Hospital in Ono Bay, north-east of Port Moresby.In recent years, ABM has been working with the Anglican Church in PNG to upgrade St Margaret's Health Clinic to a Level 5 hospital. The hospital will now operate as a satellite hospital to the state-run Popondetta General Hospital while recruiting staff and improving skills.The renovation and building of staff housing is one of the main priorities at present as quite a large number are needed. Currently the focus is on the construction of houses for the Hospital Manager and the Doctor.Once the upgrading is complete, it will greatly benefit the local community living in this remote region of PNG.The Fundraising Manager for ABM, Christopher Brooks, said: "We hope our supporters will be inspired by the Martyrs of PNG and contribute to the work of St Margaret's Hospital.More here-
http://allafrica.com/stories/201208150106.html
From Reuters-
Disaffected Anglican Dioceses in Papua New Guinea, the United States and Australia might consider switching to Roman Catholicism under a new constitution offered by the Pope, a traditionalist Anglican group said on Wednesday.The Vatican has approved a document known as an "Apostolic Constitution" which paves the way for conversion while allowing Anglicans to maintain certain traditions.About a dozen bishops from the Church of England, the Anglican mother church, are also likely to convert, according to the Forward in Faith (FiF) group, a worldwide association of Anglicans opposed to the ordination of women priests or bishops.A possible exodus may still fail to secure much-needed stability in the Anglican Church, which has been struggling to maintain unity among its 77 million followers over the ordination of women priests and gay bishops."I would be surprised if any dioceses in England moved over but I think there are dioceses elsewhere in the Anglican Communion that might," said Stephen Parkinson, director of FiF."The diocese in Papua New Guinea would be an obvious one, there are one or two dioceses in America which might possibly, and there is certainly a diocese in Australia that might consider it," he added.Individual dioceses would decide whether and how to make such a conversion, FiF said. Local worshippers who disagreed with such a move would be left without a diocese, the group added.More here-
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE59K5H420091021
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