<\/a>You can open the map in a new browser window here.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p>You can also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/papuanewguineapilgrimage\/a-gallery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">see our travels on our gallery pages here<\/a>. Delighted to have you along with us on our journey!<\/p>\n<h3>About Papua New Guinea:<\/h3>\n<p>Some economic and social insights…<\/p>\n<p><b>Papua New Guinea<\/b> (<b>PNG<\/b>; <span class=\"nowrap\"><span class=\"IPA nopopups\"><a title=\"Help:IPA for English\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Help:IPA_for_English\">\/<span title=\"\/\u02c8\/ primary stress follows\">\u02c8<\/span><span title=\"'p' in 'pie'\">p<\/span><span title=\"\/\u00e6\/ short 'a' in 'bad'\">\u00e6<\/span><span title=\"'p' in 'pie'\">p<\/span><span title=\"\/\u0259\/ 'a' in 'about'\">\u0259<\/span> <span title=\"\/nj\/ 'n' in 'new'\">nj<\/span><span title=\"\/u\u02d0\/ long 'oo' in 'food'\">u\u02d0<\/span> <span title=\"\/\u02c8\/ primary stress follows\">\u02c8<\/span><span title=\"'g' in 'guy'\">\u0261<\/span><span title=\"\/\u026a\/ short 'i' in 'bid'\">\u026a<\/span><span title=\"'n' in 'no'\">n<\/span><span title=\"\/i\u02d0\/ long 'e' in 'bead'\">i\u02d0<\/span>\/<\/a><\/span><\/span> <span class=\"Unicode\" title=\"English pronunciation respelling\"><a title=\"Wikipedia:Pronunciation respelling key\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Pronunciation_respelling_key\"><i><b><span class=\"smallcaps\"><span class=\"SMALLCAPS\"><span class=\"NOCAPS\">PAP<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b>-p\u0259-new-<b><span class=\"smallcaps\"><span class=\"SMALLCAPS\"><span class=\"NOCAPS\">GHIN<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b>-ee<\/i><\/a><\/span>; <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Tok Pisin language\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tok_Pisin_language\">Tok Pisin<\/a>: <span lang=\"tpi\"><i>Papua Niugini<\/i><\/span>; <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Hiri Motu language\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hiri_Motu_language\">Hiri Motu<\/a>: <i>Papua Niu Gini<\/i>), officially the <b>Independent State of Papua New Guinea<\/b>, is an <a title=\"Oceania\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oceania\">Oceanian<\/a> country that occupies the eastern half of the island of <a title=\"New Guinea\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Guinea\">New Guinea<\/a> and its offshore islands in <a title=\"Melanesia\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Melanesia\">Melanesia<\/a>, a region of the southwestern <a title=\"Pacific Ocean\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pacific_Ocean\">Pacific Ocean<\/a> north of <a title=\"Australia\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Australia\">Australia<\/a>. Its capital, located along its southeastern coast, is <a title=\"Port Moresby\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Port_Moresby\">Port Moresby<\/a>. The <a title=\"West Papua (region)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/West_Papua_%28region%29\">western half of New Guinea<\/a> forms the <a title=\"Indonesia\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indonesia\">Indonesian<\/a> provinces of <a title=\"Papua (province)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Papua_%28province%29\">Papua<\/a> and <a title=\"West Papua (province)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/West_Papua_%28province%29\">West Papua<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Papua New Guinea is one of the most <a title=\"Cultural diversity\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cultural_diversity\">culturally diverse<\/a> countries in the world; 848 languages are listed for the country, of which 12 have no known living speakers.<sup>\u00a0<\/sup> Most of the population of over 7 million people live in customary communities, which are as diverse as the languages.<sup>\u00a0<\/sup> It is also one of the most rural, as only 18 per cent of its people live in urban centres. The country is one of the world’s least explored, culturally and geographically, and many undiscovered species of plants and animals are thought to exist in the interior.<\/p>\n<p>Strong growth in <a title=\"Mining in Papua New Guinea\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mining_in_Papua_New_Guinea\">Papua New Guinea’s mining and resource sector<\/a> led to the country becoming the sixth <a title=\"List of countries by real GDP growth rate\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_countries_by_real_GDP_growth_rate\">fastest-growing<\/a> economy in the world in 2011, although growth is expected to slow once major resource projects come on line in 2015. Many people in the country live in extreme poverty when measured in terms of money, with nearly 40 per cent of the population living on less than US$1.00 per day.<\/p>\n<p>At the local level, the majority of the population still live in strong customary societies and \u2013 while social life is overlaid with traditional religious cosmologies and modern practices, including conventional primary education \u2013 customary <a title=\"Subsistence agriculture\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Subsistence_agriculture\">subsistence-based agriculture<\/a> remains fundamental. These societies and clans are explicitly acknowledged within the nation’s constitutional framework. The Papua New Guinea Constitution expresses the wish for “traditional villages and communities to remain as viable units of Papua New Guinean society” and for active steps to be taken in their continuing importance to local and national community life.<\/p>\n<p>At the national level, after being ruled by three external powers since 1884, Papua New Guinea established its sovereignty in 1975 following 70 years of Australian administration. It became a separate <a title=\"Commonwealth realm\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Commonwealth_realm\">Commonwealth realm<\/a> with <a title=\"Elizabeth II\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elizabeth_II\">Queen Elizabeth II<\/a> as its <a title=\"Monarchy of Papua New Guinea\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monarchy_of_Papua_New_Guinea\">head of state<\/a> and became a member of the <a title=\"Commonwealth of Nations\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Commonwealth_of_Nations\">Commonwealth of Nations<\/a> in its own right.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Wikipedia – <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Papua_New_Guinea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">read more here.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/papuanewguineapilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/signoffChurchIcon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-28 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/papuanewguineapilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/signoffChurchIcon.png\" alt=\"Papua New Guinea 2015\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Papua New Guinea 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a map of Papua New Guinea. You can zoom and track across the country to see where we have been. You can open the map in a new browser window here. You can also see our travels on our gallery pages here. Delighted to have you along with us on our journey! … <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/papuanewguineapilgrimage\/map\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Map<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-121","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P6xUPl-1X","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/papuanewguineapilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/papuanewguineapilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/papuanewguineapilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/papuanewguineapilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/papuanewguineapilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/papuanewguineapilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/papuanewguineapilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p>You can also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/papuanewguineapilgrimage\/a-gallery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">see our travels on our gallery pages here<\/a>. Delighted to have you along with us on our journey!<\/p>\n<h3>About Papua New Guinea:<\/h3>\n<p>Some economic and social insights…<\/p>\n<p><b>Papua New Guinea<\/b> (<b>PNG<\/b>; <span class=\"nowrap\"><span class=\"IPA nopopups\"><a title=\"Help:IPA for English\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Help:IPA_for_English\">\/<span title=\"\/\u02c8\/ primary stress follows\">\u02c8<\/span><span title=\"'p' in 'pie'\">p<\/span><span title=\"\/\u00e6\/ short 'a' in 'bad'\">\u00e6<\/span><span title=\"'p' in 'pie'\">p<\/span><span title=\"\/\u0259\/ 'a' in 'about'\">\u0259<\/span> <span title=\"\/nj\/ 'n' in 'new'\">nj<\/span><span title=\"\/u\u02d0\/ long 'oo' in 'food'\">u\u02d0<\/span> <span title=\"\/\u02c8\/ primary stress follows\">\u02c8<\/span><span title=\"'g' in 'guy'\">\u0261<\/span><span title=\"\/\u026a\/ short 'i' in 'bid'\">\u026a<\/span><span title=\"'n' in 'no'\">n<\/span><span title=\"\/i\u02d0\/ long 'e' in 'bead'\">i\u02d0<\/span>\/<\/a><\/span><\/span> <span class=\"Unicode\" title=\"English pronunciation respelling\"><a title=\"Wikipedia:Pronunciation respelling key\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Pronunciation_respelling_key\"><i><b><span class=\"smallcaps\"><span class=\"SMALLCAPS\"><span class=\"NOCAPS\">PAP<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b>-p\u0259-new-<b><span class=\"smallcaps\"><span class=\"SMALLCAPS\"><span class=\"NOCAPS\">GHIN<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b>-ee<\/i><\/a><\/span>; <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Tok Pisin language\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tok_Pisin_language\">Tok Pisin<\/a>: <span lang=\"tpi\"><i>Papua Niugini<\/i><\/span>; <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Hiri Motu language\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hiri_Motu_language\">Hiri Motu<\/a>: <i>Papua Niu Gini<\/i>), officially the <b>Independent State of Papua New Guinea<\/b>, is an <a title=\"Oceania\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oceania\">Oceanian<\/a> country that occupies the eastern half of the island of <a title=\"New Guinea\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Guinea\">New Guinea<\/a> and its offshore islands in <a title=\"Melanesia\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Melanesia\">Melanesia<\/a>, a region of the southwestern <a title=\"Pacific Ocean\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pacific_Ocean\">Pacific Ocean<\/a> north of <a title=\"Australia\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Australia\">Australia<\/a>. Its capital, located along its southeastern coast, is <a title=\"Port Moresby\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Port_Moresby\">Port Moresby<\/a>. The <a title=\"West Papua (region)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/West_Papua_%28region%29\">western half of New Guinea<\/a> forms the <a title=\"Indonesia\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indonesia\">Indonesian<\/a> provinces of <a title=\"Papua (province)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Papua_%28province%29\">Papua<\/a> and <a title=\"West Papua (province)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/West_Papua_%28province%29\">West Papua<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Papua New Guinea is one of the most <a title=\"Cultural diversity\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cultural_diversity\">culturally diverse<\/a> countries in the world; 848 languages are listed for the country, of which 12 have no known living speakers.<sup>\u00a0<\/sup> Most of the population of over 7 million people live in customary communities, which are as diverse as the languages.<sup>\u00a0<\/sup> It is also one of the most rural, as only 18 per cent of its people live in urban centres. The country is one of the world’s least explored, culturally and geographically, and many undiscovered species of plants and animals are thought to exist in the interior.<\/p>\n<p>Strong growth in <a title=\"Mining in Papua New Guinea\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mining_in_Papua_New_Guinea\">Papua New Guinea’s mining and resource sector<\/a> led to the country becoming the sixth <a title=\"List of countries by real GDP growth rate\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_countries_by_real_GDP_growth_rate\">fastest-growing<\/a> economy in the world in 2011, although growth is expected to slow once major resource projects come on line in 2015. Many people in the country live in extreme poverty when measured in terms of money, with nearly 40 per cent of the population living on less than US$1.00 per day.<\/p>\n<p>At the local level, the majority of the population still live in strong customary societies and \u2013 while social life is overlaid with traditional religious cosmologies and modern practices, including conventional primary education \u2013 customary <a title=\"Subsistence agriculture\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Subsistence_agriculture\">subsistence-based agriculture<\/a> remains fundamental. These societies and clans are explicitly acknowledged within the nation’s constitutional framework. The Papua New Guinea Constitution expresses the wish for “traditional villages and communities to remain as viable units of Papua New Guinean society” and for active steps to be taken in their continuing importance to local and national community life.<\/p>\n<p>At the national level, after being ruled by three external powers since 1884, Papua New Guinea established its sovereignty in 1975 following 70 years of Australian administration. It became a separate <a title=\"Commonwealth realm\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Commonwealth_realm\">Commonwealth realm<\/a> with <a title=\"Elizabeth II\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elizabeth_II\">Queen Elizabeth II<\/a> as its <a title=\"Monarchy of Papua New Guinea\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monarchy_of_Papua_New_Guinea\">head of state<\/a> and became a member of the <a title=\"Commonwealth of Nations\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Commonwealth_of_Nations\">Commonwealth of Nations<\/a> in its own right.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Wikipedia – <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Papua_New_Guinea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">read more here.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/papuanewguineapilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/signoffChurchIcon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-28 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/papuanewguineapilgrimage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/signoffChurchIcon.png\" alt=\"Papua New Guinea 2015\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Papua New Guinea 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a map of Papua New Guinea. You can zoom and track across the country to see where we have been. You can open the map in a new browser window here. You can also see our travels on our gallery pages here. Delighted to have you along with us on our journey! … <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/papuanewguineapilgrimage\/map\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Map<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-121","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P6xUPl-1X","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/papuanewguineapilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/papuanewguineapilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/papuanewguineapilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/papuanewguineapilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/papuanewguineapilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/papuanewguineapilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/papuanewguineapilgrimage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>You can open the map in a new browser window here.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>You can open the map in a new browser window here.<\/a><\/p>\n