Papua Tag

May 15, 2018

On a small island out on a lake in West Papua, a group of women are crafting themselves out of poverty by keeping a disappearing local art tradition alive. The banks of their lake home skirt the far limits of Papua’s most modern city, Jayapura, but people here still [Read More]

In a place of extraordinary hardship, people still rise

by Marcus Campbell

Blogs, News, Project Updates, Women’s Livelihoods (Papua, Indonesia)

April 10, 2018

Earlier this year, I made a trip across West Papua. It’s just 150km north of Australia, but it feels a world away – one of the poorest regions in the Asia Pacific. Yet everywhere I went, what struck me most was the profound generosity and [Read More]

The Spirit that gives unity

by Ji Zhang

Blogs

May 25, 2017

This is adapted from a sermon delivered by UnitingWorld’s Rev Dr Ji Zhang in April 2017 after returning from the 15th General Assembly of GKI-TP in West Papua (-Ed). Reading Romans 8:1-2, 6-11 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ [Read More]

World Council of Churches declares solidarity with Tanah Papua (West Papua)

by UnitingWorld

News

June 29, 2016

28 June 2016 Amid reports of a deteriorating human rights situation in West Papua, a minute of support for Papuans was issued on 28 June during the closing day to a meeting in Trondheim, Norway, of the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches [Read More]

A call to pray for our brothers and sisters in West Papua

by UnitingWorld

Pray

June 27, 2016

27 June 2016 The President of the Uniting Church in Australia Stuart McMillan has called the people of the Uniting Church to pray for our Papuan brothers and sisters in Christ as the Evangelical Christian Church in the Land of Papua (Gereja Kristen Injili Di Tanah [Read More]

Tears Speak Louder Than Words

by Mya Pwho

Blogs

March 21, 2016

I was in West Papua recently on my first field trip with UnitingWorld, where I had the unique opportunity to meet with our partner, the Evangelical Christian Church in the Land of Papua and visit their P3W project (short for Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Wanita). P3W [Read More]

A Three-Way Partnership for Education in Papua

by UnitingWorld

News

March 14, 2016

Over the past two years, UnitingWorld has worked with our partner churches, Indonesia Christian Church (GKI) and Evangelical Church in the Land of Papua (GKI-TP) to form a three-way partnership. The partnership is designed to improve the quality of Christian education in two provinces of [Read More]

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