Could recognising Christianity in Fiji’s constitution reshape the relationship between church and state?
<p>Christianity has shaped life in Fiji for generations, but should that history give it a special place in the country’s constitution?</p>
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Pacific Soul explores the higher purposes of Pasifika peoples and asks theologians and worshippers alike, what do we believe?
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The Pacific holds the world's largest blue lung and is demanding we protect it
<p>Pacific Soul explores the higher purposes of Pasifika peoples.</p>
What was lost when Cook Islanders left Takuvaʻine Valley
<p>Hidden above Rarotonga is Takuvaʻine Valley, home to an Indigenous food system that sustained generations. Dr Teina Rongo says the move away from valleys like this during the missionary era came at a profound cost.</p>
What was lost when Cook Islanders left Takuvaʻine Valley
<p>Hidden above Rarotonga is Takuvaʻine Valley, home to an Indigenous food system that sustained generations. Dr Teina Rongo says the move away from valleys like this during the missionary era came at a profound cost.</p>
The surprising ways our mourning rituals help — and hinder — our brain's ability to process loss
<p>Grief disrupts the brain's dopamine and reward systems, which are wired to seek out the people we love and confronting loss rather than avoiding it helps the brain gradually adapt to our new relationship with the person who has died</p>
Learning the why behind Samoan traditions at Brisbane's Le Fale Aganu'u
<p>Learning how to sit, speak, serve and show respect is one thing. Understanding why those customs matter is another. Le Fale Aganu'u is helping Samoans in Brisbane reconnect and rediscover. </p>
Sala Walter helped carry Dolly Parton’s literacy legacy into Pacific communities
<p>Tongan literacy advocate and PhD candidate Sala Walter shares why reading matters more than ever, in a world shaped by AI and an overwhelming amount of information. </p>
As Paddle for Hope circles Viti Levu, churches are calling for action on plastic pollution
<p>As the Pacific Conference of Churches marks the Season of Creation, Paddle for Hope is carrying a message of faith, environmental stewardship and action against plastic pollution around Viti Levu. </p>
What RFK Jr and Samoa's measles outbreak reveal about trust and influence
<p>Pacific Soul explores the higher purposes of Pasifika peoples.</p>
The soul of place in an era of extraction
<p>What does justice look like when a mine threatens to erase the soul of a place?</p>
The precursors to genocide are the same, everywhere
<p>Pacific Soul explores the higher purposes of Pasifika peoples.</p>
US deep-sea mining plans in the Pacific an affront to 'God's creation'
<p>The ocean floor near American Samoa is ancient, dark, and teeming with life that science has barely catalogued. The United States government wants to auction the right to mine it.</p>
The surprising ways our mourning rituals help — and hinder — our brain's ability to process loss
<p>Pacific Soul explores the higher purposes of Pasifika peoples.</p>
Elder Taniela Biu Wakolo shares how discipline and faith create a purposeful life
<p>How do small, unseen decisions create a life of purpose? Elder Taniela Biu Wakolo shares his practical playbook for staying disciplined as a person of faith. </p>
What Māori funeral director Lyric Vaetoe wants you to know about death
<p>Funeral director Lyric Vaetoe has had spirits follow her home from work. This is what she's learned while working with tūpāpaku. </p>
Elder Taniela Biu Wakolo is the first Fijian to lead the LDS church across the Pacific
<p>Elder Taniela Biu Wakolo was thousands of miles from home when he learned his sister was already buried. What happened next changed everything he thought he knew about faith.</p>
Can changing your name change your life?
<p>Some names can carry a story before a life even begins, shaping how you are seen and how you see yourself. </p>
Christmas is a time to stand with people who are marginalised
<p>Reverend Professor Dr Upolu Luma Vaai says faith at Christmas means standing with those who are wounded and pushed aside.</p><p>This edition of Pacific Soul was a repeat of the program broadcast on 14th December 2025</p>
Beyond the ganja and natty dread, what do Rastafari like Stan Antas believe?
<p>Stan Antas, of roots-reggae band Stan and the Earth Force, grew up with his father playing Bob Marley and asking him to sit with the lyrics.</p>
Dr Rohini Balram changed her faith because of how it viewed her period
<p>When Indo-Fijian sociologist Rohini Balram's period came, so did a rule that made no sense: she could no longer enter her own prayer space as a devout Hindu.</p>
How would recognising Indigenous dance as sport and recreation benefit our health?
<p>Western sporting systems fail to recognise Indigenous forms of movement, physical skill, and cultural expression, one researcher says. </p>
Will categorising Indigenous dance as sport and recreation give it the platform it deserves?
<p>Māori and Pasifika communities are calling for their traditional performing arts to be formally recognised as sport and active recreation in Aotearoa New Zealand. </p>
Kanak leaders map their vision for the future, beyond the accords
<p>Kanak leaders share their vision for decolonisation beyond politics by freeing the mind, spirit and forging relationships with Indigenous and First Nations group across the region. </p>
Rastaman Stan Antas says livity is 'always striving to do good'
<p>Stan Antas is a Rastaman from Vanuatu who still goes to church, speaks out on teachers strikes, advocates for West Papua's right to self-determination, and uses his music with Stan and the Earth Force to champion the marginalised across the Pacific. He deliberately keeps the Rasta label out of his music so the message reaches everyone, because livity is about doing good, not belonging to a movement.</p>
Beyond the ganja and natty dread, what do Rastafari like Stan Antas believe?
<p>Stan Antas, of roots-reggae band Stan and the Earth Force, grew up with his father playing Bob Marley and asking him to sit with the lyrics.</p>
Kanak sovereignty dispute raises questions over land and power
<p>Grand Chief Sinewami explains why he stepped away from the Customary Senate and helped establish Inaat Ne Kanaky as a new space to restore genuine Kanak customary authority</p>
Why the struggle over land and power is inseparable from decolonial feminism
<p>Kanak activists say you can’t separate women's safety, autonomy and dignity from the wider struggle against colonial power in New Caledonia. </p>
Can changing your name change your life?
<p>Some names carry meaning that can shape how you’re seen and how you see yourself. I think of my aunty Kelera Whiffin, whose maiden name Vakaloloma — meaning pity or sorrow — haunted her until she remarried. </p>
The nation pauses to farewell 'People's President' Ratu Epeli Nailatikau
<p>Fiji pauses to farewell high chief and former President Ratu Epeli Nailatikau in a state funeral that revealed the soul of a nation.</p>
Lived theology or "God with skin on" with Dr Jill Gowdie
<p>Practical theologian Dr Jill Gowdie has spent her career exploring how faith is lived in everyday life through education, leadership, and personal story. She’s also helping shape the upcoming Waves of Hope conference in Fiji later this year, with papers currently being accepted through April. Ahead of that gathering, she joins Pacific Soul to reflect on lived theology, hope, and what spirituality, or as she says, "God with skin on" looks like in daily life. </p>
In uneasy times, the season of Easter doesn't look away
<p>Life can feel fragile and overwhelming when suffering is all around us. Leaders say Easter does not turn away from these realities. </p>
Discussing the making of mass violence with Professor Olivera Simić
<p>Dehumanisation is often the first step towards genocide and history shows how quickly it can take hold when it isn’t challenged. </p>
From Lent to Ramadan and Ram Navami, let's check in with faith communities
<p>This season of spiritual reflection is shared by other faith communities too, Muslims observing Ramadan, and Hindus, particularly in places like Fiji, marking festivals like Ram Navami. </p>
Samoa’s fa’afafine hit the stage with SolFa Music, and you can join too!
<p>Samoan fa’afafine Manu Solomona and Leota Fagalima Tagaloa are warming up the vocal chords ahead of Easter church performances alongside SolFa Music.</p>
Meet the Tongan seasonal workers whose boss built them a chapel
<p>In Lakeland in Queensland's Cape York, Tongan farm workers who have been the backbone of a major banana operation for a decade now gather in a hilltop chapel built just for them</p>
Muslims are not a new faith group in Samoa. We meet mam Husam Aldin-Stanley
<p>In Samoa, where Christianity shapes nearly every corner of public life, a tiny Muslim community is trying to quietly keep the faith.</p>
What is Grace Road doing in Fiji and what are their un-Christian beliefs?
<p>Two American women who fled Fiji's Grace Road Church are now prepared to return and give evidence in long-stalled human trafficking investigations. </p>
Kalafi Moala's blistering critique of Donald Trump and his evangelical Christian base
<p>Writing in Talanoa ‘o Tonga, he says that as an evangelical Christian and long‑time Republican voter, Trump’s cruelty, narcissism and abuse of power contradicts the teachings of Jesus and the values of Christianity and Republicanism. </p>
Caroline Hunt’s story was written in pain, but grace is rewriting the next chapter
<p>Caroline Hunt spent years carrying anger she didn’t know how to release, watching her children witness her pain, and feeling like she wasn’t enough. Her debut book chronicles the journey. </p>
Christmas is a time to stand with people who are marginalised
<p>Reverend Professor Dr Upolu Luma Vaai says faith at Christmas means standing with those who are wounded and pushed aside.</p>
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