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Honolulu, HAWAII — Wayne and Pua Pila tried to visit the ASG office in Honolulu on Friday “to look around”, but one of the staff members closed the office door without replying to the Pila’s request to enter, so they left.
They have been staying with their daughter at Hickam Air Force Base in...
Wellington, NEW ZEALAND — New Zealand's Labour Party will see its largest ever Pacific caucus after claiming a landslide victory of 64 seats in Parliament.
Last term's four existing Pasifika MPs, Carmel Sepuloni for Kelston, Jenny Salesa for *Panmure-Ōtāhuhu, Aupito William Sio for Māngere and Poto...
The Le Fetuao Samoan Language Center - Hawaii Founder and Executive Director, Elisapeta T. Lesatele Alaimaleata, second from right, a staunch supporter of the Tagata Tutu Faatasi Alliance of American Samoa (TTFAAS), with family members, during the TTFAAS peaceful protest in front of the ASG-...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Makerita Iosefo-Va'a and her husband Shaun Va'a pose in front of a relative's home where they are temporarily staying in Tracy, Calif., on Oct. 8, 2020. The couple is homesick for American Samoa.
They are among an estimated 600 residents of the territory who were off-...
The Le Fetuao Samoan Language Center in Hawaii held its 2nd Food Drive, on Saturday, October 10, for more than 100 members of the TTF Alliance of American Samoa (American Samoa Stranded Residents) living in Hawaii. Le Fetuao and it’s many partners, which includes the CCCAS Kanana Fou Church in...
Apia, SAMOA — Let us cherish our children. That was the overarching message at the Congregational Christian Church of Samoa (C.C.C.S.) at Savaia, Lefaga, when children led their White Sunday church service.
The C.C.C.S. of Savaia, Lefaga joined various church denominations to celebrate White Sunday...
THE SAMOAN ISLANDS — To the untrained eye they look like worms, but Samoans know these marine creatures as palolo, and they are revered as the caviar of the South Pacific.
They are found in shallow coral reefs, are often electric blue in colour, and Samoans only have a small window to ka palolo (...
New Plymouth, NEW ZEALAND — Children were the focus of the Sunday church service at Samoan Assembly of God in New Plymouth.
The day marked White Sunday, or Lotu Tamaiti which translates to children’s service, a national holiday in Samoa which falls on the second Sunday of October.
More than 20...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Youth of the Fagaima Methodist Church posed for this Samoa News photo during the White Sunday Church service in October of last year.
ROLL FORWARD TO WHITE SUNDAY 2020 — in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic — one of the most iconic Samoan Christian traditions will be...
Washington, D.C. — New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard needs to apologize to their Democratic colleague Ilhan Omar for spreading false information about alleged voter fraud in her district.
On Sept. 28, Gabbard tried to garner support on Twitter for...