The kind of deep-sea mining that we've examined this week is only legally permitted inside a country's territorial waters.

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

Pope Francis is honoring the Catholic Church of the peripheries in Papua New Guinea. He is heading to a remote part of the ...

Papua New Guinea (PNG) is richly endowed with natural resources, but exploitation has been hampered by rugged terrain, land tenure issues, and the high cost of developing infrastructure. The ...

A police official says days of tribal violence in Papua New Guinea’s mountainous interior have left more than 35 people dead ...

Papua New Guinea has given police permission to use “lethal force” to restore order as shootouts between rival tribes have killed dozens of people. Between 20 and 50 people have been killed in ...

PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea — Pope Francis arrived in Papua New Guinea on Friday for the second leg of his four-nation trip through Southeast Asia and Oceania, becoming the second pope to ...

Pope Francis will be visiting the country of Papua New Guinea from Sept. 6-9 as part of an 11-day, multi-country papal trip. But he won’t be the first pope to set foot on the South Pacific ...

Pope to Meet Papua New Guinea Catholics Who Embrace Both Christianity and Indigenous Beliefs MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Pope Francis’s visit to Papua New Guinea will take him to a remote part ...

Approximately 35,000 Catholics from across Papua New Guinea and Oceania came together at the venue, united in their faith and buoyed by the uplifting chants of the Port Moresby Catholic choir’s ...

The International Organization for Migration has increased its estimate of the death toll from a massive landslide in Papua New Guinea to more than 670. A majority of Democratic delegates has ...