ARCHBISHOP Christopher Cardone on 26th February during the celebration of Ash Wednesday at Holy Cross Cathedral confirmed that this year’s Lenten season is a time of pray, repent and almsgiving. The church always has a Lenten fund that is offered to the Parishes in the Archdiocese and during a recent priest council meeting, they passed…
More than 1000 people including students have attended Ash Wednesday celebration at Visale parish in North West Guadalcanal on Wednesday. Northwest Guadalcanal Solomon Star stringer John Toki said the celebration was a successful one based on the theme, ‘Turn to the God.’ The service was officiated by Fr John Peter Varea. He explained the celebration was…
THE Archbishop of the Anglican Church of Melanesia (ACOM) the most Reverend Archbishop Leonard Dawea has called on all ACOM schools to be more collaboration towards ensuring better school academic results every year. Rev. Dawea made the call during his sermon at the ACOM combined School Commissioning church service, Thursday. With the theme of the…
MEMBERS of the Catholic faith at Visale, northwest Guadalcanal, last week buried a sister who had served the church for over 55 years. Sister Augustina Margarita Gesuna died at the mission station on 16 January 2020 at the age of 84. She was born in 1934 at Ata’a village, Usu’usue Parish, northeast Malaita. Gesuna came…
THE Diocesan Electoral Board of the Diocese of Temotu (DOT) in the Anglican Church of Melanesia (ACOM) will elect a new and sixth Bishop for DOT tomorrow. The election will be held at the headquarters’ of the Community of the Sisters of the Church, East of Honiara, a media statement from ACOM said. The election…
Families, relatives and friends together with Bishop Peter Houhou celebrated his first anniversary as a bishop on Monday. William Smith Toli from Catholic Communication in Auki reported that Bishop Peter traveled from Auki to his West Are’Are home at Toraraha on Sunday 13th October to mark the occasion. He was consecrated and installed on the…
ABOUT 130 candidates have received their Sacrament of Holy Eucharist on Sunday – 29th September at the Holy Cross Cathedral. Several hundreds Holy Cross parishioners packed the Cathedral to witness the event, Epalle Kulisuia of Catholic Media reported. The celebration of the Holy Mass commenced at 11am with a well prepared liturgy sung by the…
KUSIKA community in North West Guadalcanal successfully celebrated its 20th anniversary since the construction of a Catholic church in 1999. The event was held fortnight ago North West Guadalcanal Solomon Star stringer John Toki said. Theme for the 20th anniversary was: ‘Challenge the growth of Christian faith at Kusika community.’ The celebration was also to…
MIRACLE Singing Ministry of the Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) church will be hosting a public concert and DVD launching on Sunday 06 October 2019 at the Kukum SDA car park in Honiara. Reports reaching Solomon Star said the public concert will be staged to help support Aboru SDA church in Makira/Ulawa province who will also…
Pathfinders throughout the country are being urged to prepare well for the much anticipated upcoming Trans Pacific Union (TPU) Pathfinder camporee this end year. Solomon Islands Mission (SIM) of the Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) church will host the TPU Pathfinder camporee from 16th to 21st December 2019. Speaking during a press conference at the SIM…