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The United Church in Solomon Islands is a Reformed congregational Christian denomination in Solomon Islands.
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The United Church in Solomon Islands is a Reformed congregational Christian denomination in Solomon Islands.
The first Australian missionaries were sent to the Solomon Islands archipelago in 1902 by the Methodist Missionary Society. The Methodists expanded mission in the Western Islands, Munda Point and Bougainville. Later, in 1968 the Methodist church united in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, to form the United Church in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. The Bougainville congregations straddled the political divide. In the Western Solomon Islands the London Missionary Society gained majority. It was an agreement between the Methodists and the LMS people. The United Church acquired people of Reformed background too. After independence, the area became known as the sovereign nation of Solomon Islands. In 1978, a movement in Bougainville seeking secession from Papua New Guinea disrupted communication with within the church. Half of the church in Solomon Islands and in Papua New Guinea separated from the Church in 1996. The church in Solomon Islands maintains connections with the World Council of Churches, Pacific Conference of Churches.
Member of the World Communion of Reformed Churches, [3] the World Council of Churches and the Council for World Mission. [1]
Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania that occupies the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia. Its capital, located along its southeastern coast, is Port Moresby. The western half of New Guinea forms the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua. It is the world's 3rd largest island country with 462,840 km2 (178,700 sq mi).
The politics of Papua New Guinea takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic multi-party system, whereby the Prime Minister is the head of government. Papua New Guinea is an independent Commonwealth realm, with the monarch serving as head of state and a governor-general, nominated by the National Parliament, serving as their representative. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and parliament.
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Bougainville Island Tok Pisin: Bogenvil is the main island of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville of Papua New Guinea, also known as Bougainville Province. It formed the main landmass of the German Empire-associated North Solomons. With four to five hundred-metre-width-strait separated Buka Island (c.500 km2) its land measures 9,300 km2. The population of the province is 234,280, which includes islets such as the Carterets. Mount Balbi on the main island at 2,715 m is the highest point. The Buka strait, despite its narrowness, is unbridged, however regular ferries operate between the key settlements on either side and Buka Town has the main northern airstrip/airport.
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a 'Unilateral Declaration of Independence of the Republic of North Solomons' and a failed bid for self-determination at the UN
The Solomon Islands are an archipelago in the western South Pacific Ocean, located northeast of Australia. They are in the Melanesia subregion and bioregion of Oceania. The archipelago forms much of the territory of Solomon Islands, while the northwestern islands are within the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, in eastern Papua New Guinea. It forms the eastern boundary of the Solomon Sea.
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