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Preventing Pacific Worker exploitation in New Zealand

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Kalino Latu
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The NZ Human Rights Commission and Ministry for Pacific Peoples (MPP) are hosting a workshop on the exploitation of Pacific migrants to New Zealand on May 22, in Auckland.

This is in response to the high number of Pacific migrant workers working in Recognised Seasonal Worker schemes and the increasing number of Pacific Peoples being victims of human trafficking and worker exploitation in New Zealand.

Key speakers at workshop include representatives from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s(MBIE) Trafficking in Persons and Pacifica Labour and Skills team; a New Zealand industry body that employs Pacific workers; Pacific migrant workers; and the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre.

This workshop aims to bring together key government agencies, unions, Pacific leaders and workers and NGO’s to collaboratively discuss how to improve the working conditions for Pacific Peoples in New Zealand including recruitment from the Pacific to New Zealand.

Part of the discussion will include future collaboration to help address Pacific worker exploitation and human trafficking.

The Human Rights Commission’s Equal Employment Opportunities Commissioner Saunoamaali’i Dr Karanina Sumeo says migrant worker exploitation and human trafficking are human rights issues that require urgent collective action.

“Pacific workers are valuable to the New Zealand economy, but their vulnerabilities need to be recognised and addressed,” she says.

“Recruitment agencies and employers must ensure that ethical procurement and hiring practices are embedded within their policies and workplaces to protect workers and prevent human rights abuses in their supply chain.”

Pacific peoples, industry representatives that employ seasonal workers and all people interested in improving the working conditions for Pacific Migrant workers in New Zealand are invited to attend the workshop.

Elvis Presley was a paedophile and had girlfriends as young as 14, claims shocking new book

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Kaniva Staff
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By DIANNE APEN-SADLER FOR MAILONLINE

Elvis Presley was a paedophile and had girlfriends as young as 14 while on tour aged 22, a shocking book has claimed.

Author Joel Williamson has said the King of Rock and Roll kept a group of three 14-year-old girls with him on tour who were up ‘for pillow fights, tickling, kissing and cuddling’, reports Vice.

In Elvis Presley: A Southern Life, Williamson also alleges that he cheated on his 15-year-old girlfriend Dixie Locke aged 19, before ringing her desperately as he drove to the hospital when the condom broke.

Dixie and Elvis dated between early 1953 and October 1955.

Elvis reportedly had a string of underage women, including his wife Priscilla. The pair met in Bad Nauheim, Germany, during his army career when she was just 14.

That first night with Elvis, ‘he made love to her in every way short of penetration. It was as if Priscilla’s virginity was another thing that Elvis strangely and sorely needed to maintain’, the book claims.

When Elvis’ mother Gladys died in 1958, his craving for companionship in bed became stronger, Williamson claims.

He says in the book: ‘There had been a river of sex before, now there was a flood.’ From 1958 until his death in 1977, he always needed a woman or girl in bed.

Williamson also claims that Elvis was ‘obsessed with virginity’, sleeping with two 26-year-old self-proclaimed virgins in August 1970. 

When Priscilla arrived in Memphis to announce she was no longer in love with him and was separating, he flew into a jealous rage and raped her.

‘Thus, the love affair between Elvis and Priscilla ended, ignominiously, with spousal rape,’ writes the author. 

The book also claims there were many episodes written about him ‘engaging young girls to perform for him by mud wrestling in white panties, spying on couples have sex in one of his Hollywood houses by installing a two-way mirror in a bathroom’.   

Three Tongans killed in Taupo crash laid to rest

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Kalino Latu
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Three Tongans from Auckland, New Zealand who died following a crash involving two vehicles on State Highway 1 in Hatepe, south of Taupo on Saturday 4 May had been laid to rest.

Joseph Steven Takau, 41, Viliami Tatofi Fifita, 22, and Siale O’Failoto Koloi, 22, were all travelling in the van, that collided with a truck about 4.15am.

Koloi was buried yesterday at Manukau Memorial Garden in Papatoetoe. It is understood Takau and Fifita’s burial services had been held over the weekend.

St John sent two ambulances and staff treated all three people but they died at the scene between Rotongaio Rd and Hinemaiaia Access Rd, New Zealand Herald reported.

The truck driver was taken to Taupō Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

“Our thoughts are with their friends of families at this tragic time,” Police said.

The Serious Crash unit continues to investigate the cause of the crash.

ADB will continue to support government through upgraded office, says Finance Minister

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Kaniva Staff
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ADB will continue to support government through upgraded office, says Finance Minister

The Asian Development Bank has upgraded its Tongan office to a Pacific Country Office.

Tonga’s Minister of Finance, Hon. Pohiva Tu’i’onetoa, said the upgraded office would help support the government.

The head of the ADB Tonga Pacific Country Office is Tatafu Moeaki, a former civil servant and CEO for Finance.

Hon. Tu’i’onetoa and the ADB’s Pacific Department Director General, Carmela Locsin, co-signed the upgrading agreement.

Tonga has been a member of the ADB since 1972.

Over the past decade the ADB has increased its financial and technical assistance to Tonga.

It currently has US$123.7 million earmarked for eight projects in the kingdom.

Hon. Tu’i’onetoa attended  the ADB’s 52nd annual meeting in Fiji at the beginning of this month.

The ADB’s chief economist, Yasuyuki Sawada, visited at the end of April.

At the beginning of this month the Asian Development Bank identified tourism as a growth area in the Tongan economy.

According to bank’s Asian Development Outlook 2019 report, tourism contributed 11.5% of Tonga’s GDP in 2017,

Tonga has received $70.2 million in loans, $121.2 million in grant and $23.3 million in technical assistance from the ADB since 1972.

The bank said tourism also had to be kept to environmentally friendly and sustainable.

Infrastructure had to be sufficiently resilient to withstand cyclones.

The main points

  • The Asian Development Bank has upgraded its Tongan office to a Pacific Country Office.
  • Tonga’s Minister of Finance, Hon. Pohiva Tu’i’onetoa, said the upgraded office would help support the government.

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Tourism a growth area for Tongan economy says new Development Bank report

Tourism a growth area for Tongan economy says new Development Bank report

Tonga’s new dialysis centre to be built at king’s Tufumāhina estate

By
Kalino Latu
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Tonga’s new dialysis centre is planned to be built at His Majesty’s Tufumāhina estate, a Ministry of Health spokesperson said.

He said negotiations are underway to secure the site opposite Tonga Gas Ltd for the centre which is about 2 kilometres away from Vaiola hospital.

Queen Nanasipau’u Tuku’aho has gifted the centre with a land from the royal estate, the spokesperson said.

As Kaniva news reported, a newly registered non-profitable organisation has been set up to run the operation.

Members of the organisation are the Minister of Health Saia Piukala, Director of Health Siale ‘Akau’ola, Victorina Afeaki Kioa, Dr Sione Lātū, Dr Lisiate ‘Ulufonua and Lord Vaea.

The facility would be established “at no cost to the government.”

A private company in Salt Lake City, Utah which currently operates three clinics including a dialysis centre, was partnering with the Ministry.

They offered free services for the public.

The US organization involved philanthropists who wanted to leave some of their money and wealth to charity, the spokesperson said.

As Radio New Zealand reported at the time, the Ministry has said in the past that it could not fund its own dialysis programme “because it would eat up 20 percent of the annual health budget for less than one percent of the population and it is not equitable distribution of meagre resources.”

The Ministry said there was a 17.7 percent prevalence of diabetes in Tonga, a number revised after it was regionally reported as 34.4 percent.

The Minstry said there were 200 patients in the kingdom with varying degrees of kidney disease and around 66 patients, or a third, are in Stage 5, requiring renal replacement therapy, or dialysis.

Tongan patients in New Zealand and around the globe have faced a painful death if they were sent back to Tonga because dialysis was not available there.

Last year a Tongan national, Tamahanga Tukunga, was among a growing number of Tongans in New Zealand who requested help from the New Zealand government.

He received dialysis three days a week and as a foreign national he was not entitled to that treatment and could be deported to Tonga within a year.

His treatment was paid by his relatives through fundraising, including sausage sizzles back in Tonga, and sending yams to sell in New Zealand.

The cost of the medical treatment was always a critical factor for overseas countries in deciding whether or not to grant visas to Tongan patients.

As Kaniva news reported recently, Sosefo Lakalaka was ordered to leave New Zealand by May 2019 after a tribunal found the burden on New Zealand’s public health system outweighed the exceptional humanitarian circumstances of his case.

Mr Lakalaka was paying off a $US10,768 medical bill and his ongoing treatment was costing the taxpayer $US13,463 a year.

A Tongan international and ‘Ikale Tahi player Sione Vaimo’unga, who was trapped in Romania on dialysis, was luckier after  Tonga’s Ministry of Health sought support from the Romanian government in 2017.

The Pacific Rugby Players Welfare finally reported last year that Vaiomo’unga was recovering well from a transplant after he had been on dialysis after being diagnosed three years previously.

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New dialysis centre set to open in Tonga “at no cost to government” – claim

Supreme Court finds broadcaster broke Electoral Act rule with Hon. Sika interview

By
Philip Cass
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The Supreme Court has overturned a Magistrate’s Court decision to acquit Tonga Broadcom of breaking the law restricting broadcasting on election day.

Section 23(1)(g)(i) of the Electoral Act prohibits anybody from broadcasting at any time on polling day before the close of the polls any statement “advising or intended  or  likely  to  influence  any elector  as to  the candidate  for whom the electors should or should not vote.”

The Supreme Court heard that about 7am on election day, November 16, 2017, Broadcom transmitted an interview with Deputy Prime Minister Semisi Sika.

The  interview had been recorded a few days earlier, but Hon. Sika was  unaware it would be broadcast on polling   day.

The  broadcast focussed on the work and achievements of Hon. Sika,  the need to continue this good work and his desire to be returned to  finish off  the work for the benefit of Tonga.  It then urged listeners to exercise their vote.

Another candidate standing for No 2 Tongatapu constituency  heard the broadcast  and laid a complaint. A prosecution was launched in the Magistrate’s Court.

The Principal Magistrate found that the offence  had  been  proven, but acquitted Broadcom on the grounds that the law was not meant to restrict the publication of any candidate’s name in any printed or broadcast news.

The Supreme court was told  the records did not show that the Principal Magistrate provided  any reasons for his conclusion.

Lord Chief Justice Paulsen said Section 23 created a blackout period on polling day banning the publication, distribution or broadcast of statements likely to influence how people voted.

This balanced the right to campaign and free speech   with   the   maintenance   of   a free voting environment.

The proviso was unambiguous and did create a general exception   for   publications or broadcast that might be considered news.

“It recognises that on polling day the media has a legitimate interest in reporting on  the election,  but  not to the extent of disseminating information influencing the manner in which electors vote,” the judge said.

“The Principal Magistrate was correct to find that all elements of the offence under Section 23(1)(g)(i) were proven beyond reasonable doubt,” Lord Chief Justice Paulsen said.

“He was wrong to acquit the respondent.

“The decision of the Principal Magistrate is quashed  and Broadcom is convicted  of  the  offence  under  the Electoral Act.”

The main points

  • The Supreme Court has overturned a Magistrate’s Court decision to acquit Tonga Broadcom of breaking the law restricting broadcasting on election day.
  • Section 23(1)(g)(i) of the Electoral Act prohibits anybody from broadcasting at any time on polling day before the close of the polls any statement “advising or intended  or  likely  to  influence  any elector  as to  the candidate  for whom the electors should or should not vote.”

Plane makes emergency landing with no front wheels

By
Kaniva Staff
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A Myanmar pilot saved the day after his aircraft’s landing gear failed, forcing the jet into an emergency landing with no front wheels on Sunday morning, an official said.

The nail-biting touchdown – in which nobody was injured – was the second instance of a malfunctioning flight in less than a week within the country.

The Myanmar Airlines flight UB-103 – an Embraer-190 model – was grounded at around 9am in Mandalay (2.30am GMT), a city popular among foreign tourists, with all 89 people on board including seven crew members, safe.

An unverified video circulated on social media showing a graceful landing before the nose of the jet tipped over and ground to a halt.

The pilot tried a backup emergency procedure to pull down the wheels but that was unsuccessful. 

The aircraft did two fly-bys past the tower for air controllers to check visually whether the wheels had deployed. 

The captain followed emergency procedures to dump fuel to reduce the landing weight, and made a safe landing at 9:09am, said the statement.

Video apparently was shot by one of the passengers and posted online showed an urgent but orderly evacuation of the passengers and crew. 

Passengers were seen walking away from the plane across the airfield, several of them smiling.

In another video posted online, smoke could be seen coming into the cabin around a passenger’s legs as many began rushing to the emergency exits to evacuate. 

Ye Htut Aung, deputy director general of Myanmar’s Civil Aviation Department, said the pilot tried repeatedly to drop the landing gear at the front of the plane — first through its computer system, then manually.

‘They tried hard twice by flying around twice and asked to check whether the nose wheel dropped or not,’ Ye Htut Aung said, calling it a ‘technical fault’.

‘So they had to land with the back wheels… The pilot could land it skillfully,’ he said. ‘There were no casualties.’

Myanmar National Airlines are now sending engineers to Mandalay International Airport to check on the aircraft, Ye Htut Aung said, adding that all jets get a daily flight check.

Passenger Soe Moe said: ‘Smoke came out a little when we landed… All passengers are okay.’

Kyaw San, a spokesman for the airport, said the pilot informed the control tower before landing that he was unable to pull down the nose wheels.

A statement on the airline’s Facebook page explained that the plane’s EICAS – Engine Indicating and Crew Alerting System – indicated a failure of the front landing gear to deploy.  

Flight operations at the airport were temporarily suspended, and allowed to resume after about two hours for smaller aircraft. The runways were expected to be reopened for use by larger Boeing and Airbus aircraft by late afternoon.

Sunday’s incident comes just days after a Biman Bangladesh Airlines plane crash-landed and slid off a runway while landing in Yangon airport during a storm on Wednesday, leaving 11 passengers injured.

Photos of the plane showed it lying partly on the wet runway and partly on the grass. Its fuselage appeared to be broken in at least two spots. 

Myanmar’s monsoon season has caused problems for commercial and military flights in the past.

A military plane crashed into the Andaman sea in 2017 with 122 people on board – one of the deadliest aviation accidents in the country’s history – which authorities attributed to bad weather.

And in 2015, a passenger plane by Air Bagan veered off the runway due to bad weather and heavy rain.

US$4.65m Digital Upgrade benefits Tongan Public Services

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Kaniva Staff
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Tongans will soon benefit from improved digital access to key public services, including significant upgrades to Tonga’s civil registration and national ID systems, following the approval of a US$4.65 million grant by the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today.

The Tonga Digital Government Support Project will strengthen digital access, efficiency and security in Tonga’s public service, by supporting a number of whole-of-government digital initiatives, including a new National Government Portal that will improve Tongans’ access to services and information across all Government ministries and agencies, as well as improvements to Tonga’s regulations for digital economy and digital government, data protection and privacy, and cyber security.

In addition, the project will improve Tonga’s civil registration and national ID systems, ensuring that each Tongan citizen and resident is assigned a unique ID number at birth, that their legal identity can be authenticated for accessing services in-person and online, and that birth, death and marriage records are linked. 

For Tongan families, this will mean that newborns can be registered more quickly, and that all Tongans will have better access to education, health, employment, elections, immigration, property ownership and banking. These efforts will accelerate achievement of Sustainable Development Goal target (SDG) 16.9: to “provide legal identity for all, including birth registration.”

Tonga’s remote location, small size and dispersed islands pose many challenges to its economic development, including inefficient public service delivery and high transaction costs.

Despite recent investments in improved connectivity in Tonga — notably, World Bank-supported broadband internet access – further investment is required to build a whole of government approach to digital government, and to more effectively connect Tongan households and businesses. 

At present, the civil registration and national ID systems are not effectively linked, and Tonga has limited data protection standards.

“Delivering effective online public services to our people is essential to the development of Tonga,” said Hon Dr. Pōhiva Tu’i’onetoa, Tonga’s Minister for Finance. “We are delighted to be working with the World Bank to improve our digital technology across all government agencies and advance digital access and efficiency for Tongan communities.”

“Our work in the Pacific has shown us that integrated, shared and inclusive information flow within and across government agencies can improve the quality of life for citizens, and reduce the complexity for businesses trying to grow,” said Michel Kerf, the World Bank’s Country Director for Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Islands. “We are proud to be working with the Tongan Government on this project; the first of its kind supporting digital government in the Pacific.”

The US$4.65 million grant comes from the International Development Association (IDA), the World Bank’s fund for the most in-need countries and will be implemented by Tonga’s Ministry of Finance.

The project has been supported by the Australian Government through collaboration with the Commonwealth Digital ID Initiative of Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), and the Korean Government through the Korea-World Bank Partnership Facility (KWPF).

Tongans community in Brisbane welcomes possible increase in kava imports

By
Kalino Latu
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The Tongan community in Brisbane has welcomed suggestion that Australia will ease restrictions on the importation of kava for personal use.

Proposals being studied include increasing the quantity of kava for personal use to 4kg under a pilot programme and suggestions that the programme be evaluated after two years.

There are more than 10 kava clubs in Brisbane which meet regularly.

The clubs have been described as the financial backbone to fund raising ventures for community development and visitors from the Kingdom of Tonga.

These clubs also played a prominent role in funding activities in the Kingdom through special lunches for the disabled and disadvantaged people from the Ālonga, OTA and Vaiola Psyche Ward .

President of the Brisbane Tongan Community steering committee, Rev. Maile Molitika, said kava had a strong musical element.

“Not only do the kava clubs provide music for traditional dancing during weddings, birthdays and fund raisers, but we also keep alive the compositions of Tongan composers and musicians both past and present,” Rev. Molitika said.

In its submission to Parliament, the Tongan community in Brisbane said kava was consumed or shared among family, church members or in a social kava club. 

It said it was rare that one 2kg imported by an individual is consumed by that individual only.

“We support the easing of the restrictions as it not only provides for the needs of our people in Brisbane for example, but also assists in the economic growth in Tonga,” Rev Molitika said.

“The cost of kava has increased tremendously over the years.

“By opening these opportunities up, it also allows our people to expand their investment opportunities and assist in capacity building in the Kingdom of Tonga and the diaspora.”

The main points

  • The Tongan community in Brisbane has welcomed suggestion that Australia will ease restrictions on the importation of kava for personal use.
  • Proposals being studied include increasing the quantity of kava for personal use to 4kg under a pilot programme and suggestions that the programme be evaluated after two years.

For more information

Submissions in support of the Pilot Program to ease restrictions on the importation of kava for personal use

Folau controversy: Churches’ teachings on homosexuality often differ from followers’ beliefs and public statements

By
Philip Cass
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Israel Folau, arguably one of the greatest footballers ever to play in Australia, has been embroiled in a storm of controversy ever since he posted statements online saying that homosexuals were going to hell unless they repented.

Folau’s stance has led to his disciplining by the Australian rugby authorities and the apparent end of his career in that country. He has also been attacked by secular commentators for his views.

However, there has been little attempt to put Folau’s words into context, or to examine the doctrinal issues behind his statements or what church leaders and their followers are actually saying about the issue.

Folau posted a message on Instagram in which he said that “drunks, homosexuals, adulterers, liars and fornicators” would go to hell unless they repented.

“Those that are living in sin will end up in hell unless you repent. Jesus Christ loves you and is giving you time to turn away from your sin and come to him,” he said.

Supporters

A number of Folau’s fellow Islander football player have supported his stance.

Radio New Zealand reported that England number eight Billy Vunipola and Queensland Reds captain Samu Kerevi were among several Pasifika athletes to “like” Folau’s original post on Instagram.

It said many other players may share similar views.

Family and friends defended Folau,  saying the only thing that mattered to him was how he would be viewed by God and saying his religious views came from “a place of love, not hate.”

A petition named ‘#istandwithIzzyFolau’ has gathered almost 10,000 signatures since it was posted on the change.org site, claiming Folau is the victim of discrimination.

“This is discrimination by the Rugby Union Australia against freedom of beliefs… against Christianity and someone’s religious beliefs,” the petition reads.

The ‘My Tongan – Online community’ has shared the petition with its 17,000-plus members.

Former rugby league player, retired boxer and devout Muslim Anthony Mundine defended Folau’s right to express his beliefs and said he was being persecuted because of his colour.

“People are missing the point here, it’s not about the Bible or the Biblical quote that Izzy put up, it’s a black man expressing it,” Mundine said.

“I commend Izzy for sticking up and facing such racism and being persecuted and not having the right to make a living … there’ve been guys out there been done for drugs, assaults … yet he (Folau) can’t express his mind?”

Assemblies of God

Folau, who is of Tongan descent, was born a Mormon, but converted to the Assemblies of God, a pentecostal church which takes a literalist approach to scripture.

Folau’s comments reflect AOG doctrine.

In August 2014 the General Presbytery of the Assemblies of God in the United States issued a statement saying that homosexual behaviour was sinful because it disobeyed scriptural teachings.

The Presbytery based its ruling on Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13 which prohibit homosexual behaviour.

“Scripture consistently identifies homosexual behaviour as sin,” the Presbytery said.

“Not only do the Scriptures condemn more flagrant examples of homosexual violence and promiscuity, they also provide no support for the popular modern idea that loving and committed homosexual relationships between two long-term partners, even if legally married, are morally acceptable. Homosexual activities of every kind are contrary to the moral commandments God has given us.”

However, despite this official stance, such beliefs are not universal within the church. Research by the US-based Pew Research Centre, found that about a third of AOG members surveyed in that country believed homosexuality should be accepted. The figure was highest for church members between 30-49 and women.

Catholic church

In New Zealand, the Catholic Church’s spokeswoman, Dame Lyndsay Freer, said Folau’s words were damaging to the Christian faith.

“I feel very sorry for what Israel Folau has done,” the Otago Daily Times quoted her as saying.

“(He is) . . . presenting God as a God of punishment and a God of vengeance, not a God of love, and mercy and compassion.

“It’s dangerous territory when you lump everyone together as sinners and damned because at the end of the day it’s God that makes that judgement, not us, and not Israel Folau.”

The official position of the church is that homosexuality is “objectively disordered” and says that gay people “are called to chastity.” However, it also says that gay people “must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided.”

Public perceptions of Catholic approaches to homosexuality have changed greatly under Pope Francis.

Last month Pope Francis said homosexual tendencies were “not a sin,” but added: “Tendencies are not sin. If you have a tendency to anger, it’s not a sin. Now, if you are angry and hurt people, the sin is there.”

The Pope is famous for answering a question about homosexuality with the reply: “Who am I to judge?”

However, some would argue that he has been careful to tread a fine line between expressing love and tolerance for the sinner, but rejecting what he sees as a sin.

It has been reported that he recently said that in a confidential meeting with Italian bishops, the Pope said that men with “deeply rooted” homosexual tendencies, or who “practice homosexual acts,” should not be allowed into the seminary.

At the meantime, however, the Catholic news service Crux reported that Juan Carlos Cruz, a Chilean survivor of clerical sexual abuse, said that during a private meeting with the Pope in April, Francis had said it did not matter that he was gay.

“Juan Carlos, that you are gay doesn’t matter,” Francis reportedly said.

“God made you like this and loves you like this and it doesn’t matter to me. The pope loves you like this, you have to be happy with who you are.”

Methodist church

Homosexuality has been a divisive issue in some section of the Methodist church. In New Zealand the Methodist Church approved the ordination of openly gay and lesbian ministers in 2004. The church allows each local congregation to determine its own policy on the issue. In 2013, when same-sex marriage was legalized in New Zealand, congregations that opted to do so were able to perform same-sex marriages.

However, dispute over the issue led to the creation of a Wesleyan Methodist church and a Tongan Methodist church, the Vahefonua Tonga o Aoteoroa. In 2012 the Vahefonua Tonga opposed the same sex marriage bill on the ground that it went against Tongan traditions,  cultural  and religious beliefs.

Sexuality in the Pacific

Churches in the Pacific have been generally conservative on sexual issue. Tonga, for instance, remains the only Pacific island nation not to have signed the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women because certain church leaders believed it would mean that it will mean Tonga would be forced to legalise homosexuality and allow same sex marriage.

Homosexual, third gender and trans gender people have occurred historically and in contemporary Pacific culture.

In certain countries there are men such as the fa’afafine in Samoa who fulfil traditionally female roles. Fakaleiti in Tonga play a similar multi-gendered role and are famous for organising the Miss Galaxy Pageant in Tonga.

However, such people may not necessarily align with western concept of transgender or gay and lesbian identities.

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