Pope Francis did not visit the Christian-majority region of Papua during his Asia tour last September; however, his concerns and gestures regarding the plight of Papuans have provided them with a ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — An East Valley Polynesian dance school is sharing the culture and music of the Pacific with Arizona. Tamāli’i Polynesian Entertainment opened in 2015 in Mesa by Dion and ...

One photo shows Father Prevost posing for a photo with several nuns, another shows he is eating a Papuan dish called papeda and talking to native Papuans. Prevost visited Papua as the head of the ...

Captain Cook’s, the quick-service restaurant at the Polynesian Village Resort, has been around since the park’s opening in 1971 and is still named after a genocidal colonizer who claimed ...

And to both educate others and share their culture, Hui Kalau Lihua will be hosting its first Polynesian Cultural Festival. "Aloha Lou on May 31 here in Central Park, we were looking to have a ...

BUILT for the game with toughness, size and a love of contact — it’s no surprise a boy born to Samoan parents is 56 times more likely to reach the NFL than any other child in America.

Seven Arizona Wildcats made the preseason Polynesian College Football Player of the Year watch list on Thursday. The annual award is given out by the Polynesian Football Hall of Fame.

Researchers suggest that the genomes of modern Papuans bear traces of two distinct groups of Denisovan ancestors. A sister group to the Neanderthals, these enigmatic hominins are known only from a ...

Terry Hunt, an anthropologist who specializes in Polynesian archeology, was called by Buck Woodall to explain to the jurors in downtown Los Angeles how both Woodall's "Bucky" and "Moana" included ...

But the Netherlands wanted the approximately 500,000 Papuans who inhabited the territory—a largely Christian people who did not want unification with Muslim Indonesia—to achieve self-determination, ...

Describing Pope Leo's first speech while there as giving hope to Papuans, Mala says he sees the new pontiff as a "breath of fresh air" for the region – which has been riven with conflict with ...