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Vanuatu (IPA: /ˌvɑːnuːˈɑːtuː/), officially the Republic of Vanuatu (French: République de Vanuatu), is an island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago is some 1,750 km (1,090 mi) east of northern Australia, 500 km (310 mi) north-east of New Caledonia, west of Fiji, and south of the Solomon Islands. Image File history File links Flag_of_Vanuatu. ...
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The Coat of arms of Vanuatu features a Melanesian warrior superimposed on a boars tusk, over a scroll that reads We stand with God in Bislama. ...
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Yumi, Yumi, Yumi (We, We, We) is the national anthem of Vanuatu. ...
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The population of Vanuatu is 94% indigenous Melanesian. ...
Port Vila (population 29,356, coordinates ) is the capital city of Vanuatu. ...
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Bislama is a Melanesian creole language, one of the official languages of Vanuatu. ...
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The President of Vanuatu is the chief of state of Vanuatu. ...
Kalkot Mataskelekele is the President of Vanuatu since 2004. ...
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Ham Lini (born 1951?) is a politician in Vanuatu, who currently serves as Prime Minister of that country (since December 11, 2004). ...
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ISO 4217 code: VUV Symbol: none 1/100th unit: none Introduced in: ? Exchange Rates September 2005 USD exchange: 111 EUR exchange: 139 GBP exchange: 205 The vatu (ISO 4217: VUV, sometimes Vt) is the official currency of Vanuatu. ...
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Vanuatu was first inhabited by Melanesian people. Europeans began to settle in the area in the late 18th century. In 1906, the United Kingdom and France officially claimed the country, jointly managing it through a British-French Condominium as the New Hebrides. An independence movement was established in the 1970s, and the Republic of Vanuatu was created in 1980. Map showing Melanesia. ...
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The New Hebrides are an island group in the South Pacific that now form the nation of Vanuatu. ...
History -
Many of the islands of Vanuatu have been inhabited for thousands of years with the oldest archaeological evidence dating back to 1300 BCE.[1] The history of Vanuatu begins obscurely. ...
Europeans In 1606 a Spanish expedition led by Portuguese explorers Luis Váez de Torres and Pedro Fernández de Quirós became the first from Europe to reach the islands which they believed to be part of Terra Australis. Europeans began settling the islands in the late 18th century after the British explorer James Cook visited the islands on his second voyage and gave them the name New Hebrides. Luiz Váez de Torres, Portuguese seaman, remembered chiefly because the Torres Strait separating Australia from Papua New Guinea is named for him. ...
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For a few years following 1879, the island of Efate was an independent republic known as Franceville. It was the first self-governing nation to practice universal suffrage without distinction of sex or race, although only whites were permitted to hold office.[2] In 1887 the islands came under the administration of a joint French–British naval commission. In 1906 the French and British agreed to an Anglo-French Condominium of the New Hebrides. Vanuatu suffered from the practice of blackbirding wherein half of the adult male population of some of the islands became indentured workers in Australia.[citation needed] Due to diseases introduced by the new European populations, the native population fell to a mere 45,000 in 1935. Efate is an island in The Republic of Vanuatu. ...
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The New Hebrides are an island group in the South Pacific that now form the nation of Vanuatu. ...
Blackbirding refers to the recruitment of people through trickery and kidnappings to work on plantations, particularly the sugar cane plantations of Queensland (Australia) and Fiji[1] , as well as in the early days of the pearling industry in Broome. ...
During World War II the islands of Efate and Espiritu Santo were used as allied military bases. In the 1960s the ni-Vanuatu people started to press for self-governance and, later, independence. Full sovereignty was finally granted by both European nations on July 30, 1980 and Vanuatu became a republic with the Commonwealth of Nations. Subsequently, Vanuatu joined the United Nations in 1981 and the Non-Aligned Movement in 1983. During the 1990s Vanuatu experienced political instability which eventually resulted in a more decentralised government. The Vanuatu Mobile Force, a paramilitary group, attempted a coup in 1996 because of a pay dispute. There were allegations of corruption in the government of Maxime Carlot Korman. New elections have been called for, several times since 1997, most recently in 2004. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki TÅjÅ Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...
Efate is an island in The Republic of Vanuatu. ...
Espiritu Santo (Spanish: Holy Ghost) is is the largest island in the nation of Vanuatu. ...
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The Commonwealth of Nations as of 2006 Headquarters Marlborough House, London, UK Official languages English Membership 53 sovereign states Leaders - Queen Elizabeth II - Secretary-General Don McKinnon (since 1 April 2000) Establishment - Balfour Declaration 18 November 1926 - Statute of Westminster 11 December 1931 - London Declaration 28 April 1949 Area - Total...
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Maxime Carlot Korman (born 1942) is a Vanuatuan politician. ...
Politics -
Vanuatu has a parliamentary democracy political system which is currently headed by a President who has, primarily, ceremonial powers and who is elected for 5-year terms by a two-thirds majority in an electoral college. This electoral college consists of members of Parliament and the presidents of Regional Councils. The President may be removed by the electoral college for gross misconduct or incapacity. The Prime Minister, who is the head of government, is elected by a majority vote of a three-fourths quorum of the Parliament. The prime minister, in turn, appoints the Council of Ministers, whose number may not exceed one-fourth of the number of parliamentary representatives. The prime minister and the Council of Ministers constitute the executive government. The constitution created a republican political system headed by a president who has primarily ceremonial powers and is elected by a two-thirds majority in an electoral college consisting of members of Parliament and the presidents of Regional Councils. ...
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A parliamentary system, or parliamentarism, is distinguished by the executive branch of government being dependent on the direct or indirect support of the parliament, often expressed through a vote of confidence. ...
The President of Vanuatu is the chief of state of Vanuatu. ...
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The Parliament of Vanuatu is unicameral and has 52 members who are elected by popular vote every four years, unless earlier dissolved by a majority vote of a three-fourths quorum or by a directive from the President on the advice of the Prime Minister. The national Council of Chiefs, called the Malvatu Mauri and elected by district councils of chiefs, advises the government on all matters concerning ni-Vanuatu culture and language. The Parliament or Parlement has 52 members, elected for a four year term in multi-seat constituencies. ...
Unicameralism is the practice of having only one legislative or parliamentary chamber. ...
The Malvatu Mauri or National Council of Chiefs are a body of government advisors in Vanuatu. ...
Government and society in Vanuatu tend to divide along linguistic French and English lines. Forming coalition governments, however, has proved problematic at times due to differences between English and French speakers. A coalition government, or coalition cabinet, is a cabinet in parliamentary government in which several parties cooperate. ...
The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...
The Supreme Court consists of a chief justice and up to three other judges. Two or more members of this court may constitute a Court of Appeal. Magistrate courts handle most routine legal matters. The legal system is based on British common law. The constitution also provides for the establishment of village or island courts presided over by chiefs to deal with questions of customary law. This article concerns the common-law legal system, as contrasted with the civil law legal system; for other meanings of the term, within the field of law, see common law (disambiguation). ...
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Foreign relations and military -
Vanuatu has joined the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Agence de Coopération Culturelle et Technique, la Francophonie and the Commonwealth of Nations. Vanuatu maintains relations with more than 65 countries, including Russia, Cuba, and Vietnam. ...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is a regional development bank established in 1966 to promote economic and social development in Asian and Pacific countries through loans and technical assistance. ...
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Since 1980 Australia, the European Union, the United Kingdom (UK), France and New Zealand have provided the bulk of Vanuatu's development aid. Direct aid from the UK to Vanuatu has ceased since 2005 following the decision by the UK to no longer focus on the Pacific. However, more recently new donors such as the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) and the People's Republic of China have been providing increased amounts of aid funding. In 2005 the MCA announced that Vanuatu was one of the first 15 countries in the world selected to receive support—an amount of US$65 million was given for the provision and upgrading of key pieces of public infrastructure. Participants in the Program; United States as donor is in green, red countries have active compacts, blue countries have active threshold compacts, purple countries are in negotations for either, and pink countries have negotiated threshold agreements and are negotiating for full compacts The Millennium Challenge Account (MCA), run by the...
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Vanuatu retains strong economic and cultural ties to Australia, the European Union (in particular France) and New Zealand. Australia now provides the bulk of external assistance, including to the police force, which has a paramilitary wing. Vanuatu's military consist of a small, mobile, corps of 300 volunteers. The Vanuatu Police Force (VPF) includes the paramilitary Vanuatu Mobile Force (VMF). Total military expenditures are not available.
Geography
Physical geography -
 Vanuatu is an archipelago of 83 islands, of which two—Matthew and Hunter—are also claimed by the French overseas department of New Caledonia. Of the 83 islands, 14 have surface areas of more than 100 square kilometres (38.6 sq mi). From largest to smallest: Espiritu Santo 3,956 km² (1,527 sq mi), Malakula 2,041 km² (788 sq mi), Efate (900 km²/350 mi²), Erromango (888 km²/343 mi²), Ambrym (678 km²/262 mi²), Tanna (555 km²/214 mi²), Pentecost (491 km²/190 mi²), Epi (445 km²/172 mi²), Ambae or Aoba (402 km²/155 mi²), Vanua Lava (334 km²/129 mi²), Gaua (328 km²/127 mi²), Maewo (304 km²/117 mi²), Malo (180 km²/70 mi²), and Anatom or Aneityum (159 km²/65 mi²). Vanuatu, formerly called New Hebrides, is a group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, about three-quarters of the way from Hawaii to Australia. ...
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Vanuatu and New Caledonia, Matthew and Hunter Islands on the right bottom The Matthew and Hunter Islands are a group of 2 small and uninhabited volcanic islands in the South Pacific, located 300 km east of New Caledonia and south-east of Vanuatu archipelago. ...
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Espiritu Santo (Spanish: Holy Ghost) is is the largest island in the nation of Vanuatu. ...
Malakula Island is located at 16. ...
Efate is an island in The Republic of Vanuatu. ...
Erromango Erromango () is the largest island in Tafea, the southernmost province of Vanuatu. ...
Ambrym is an island in Vanuatu, known for its highly active volcanic activity that includes lava lake formation. ...
Tanna (sometimes spelled Tana) is an island of Vanuatu. ...
Pentecost Island Pentecost Island is one of the 83 islands that make up the South Pacific nation of Vanuatu. ...
Epi (or Épi; formerly known as Tasiko or Volcano Island) is the name of an island in Vanuatu, at the north end of the Shepherd Islands (coordinates ). It is in Shefa Province. ...
Aoba, also known as Ambae is an island in the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, located near 15 30 S and 167 30 E. Ambae has a population of less than 10,000, divided into 3-4 discernable language groups (North/East Ambae language centered around the Lombaha area...
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Gaua (also known as Santa Maria Island) (coordinates: ) is the largest of the Banks Islands in Torba Province of northern Vanuatu. ...
Maéwo Maewo (or Maéwo; also Aurora Island) is an island in Vanuatu in Penama province, 105 km to the east of Espiritu Santo. ...
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Anatom (formerly known as Aneityum) is the southernmost main island of Vanuatu. ...
Most of the islands are mountainous, of volcanic origin and have a tropical or sub-tropical climate. The nation's largest towns are the capital Port Vila, situated on Efate, and Luganville on Espiritu Santo.[3] The highest point in Vanuatu is Mount Tabwemasana, at 1879 m (6158 ft), on the island of Espiritu Santo. There are several active volcanoes in Vanuatu, including Lopevi, as well as several underwater ones. Volcanic activity is common with an ever-present danger of a major eruption, the last occurred in 1945. Rainfall averages about 2,360 millimetres (93 in) per year but can be as high as 4,000 mm (157 in) in the northern islands. This article is about volcanoes in geology. ...
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Port Vila (population 29,356, coordinates ) is the capital city of Vanuatu. ...
Luganville is the second largest city in the Republic of Vanuatu and is located on the island of Espiritu Santo. ...
Mount Tabwemasana is the highest point in the island country of Vanuatu and is located on the island of Espiritu Santo, the largest island in the country. ...
Lopevi (or Lopévi, 16. ...
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Vanuatu is recognised as a distinct terrestrial ecoregion, known as the Vanuatu rain forests. It is part of the Australasia ecozone, which includes New Caledonia, the Solomon Islands, Australia, New Guinea, and New Zealand. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...
The Vanuatu rain forests are a terrestrial ecoregion that includes the islands of Vanuatu, as well as the Santa Cruz Islands group of the neighboring Solomon Islands. ...
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Administrative divisions -
Since 1994, Vanuatu has been divided into six provinces: Vanuatu has been divided into six provinces since 1994. ...
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Malampa is a province of Vanuatu, made up of three main islands, Malakula, Ambrym and Paama, from which the provinces name is derived. ...
Penama is a province of Vanuatu, occupying the islands of Ambae, Maewo, and Pentecost. ...
Map Sanma is a province of the southern Pacific nation of Vanuatu, occupying the nations largest island, Espiritu Santo, which is located approximately 2,500 km northeast of Sydney, Australia. ...
Shefa is a province of Vanuatu, including the islands of Epi and Éfaté and the Shepherd Islands. ...
Tafea is the southernmost province of Vanuatu. ...
TorBa is the northernmost province of Vanuatu, including the Banks Islands and the Torres Islands. ...
Economy and demographics
Economy -
The economy is based, primarily, on subsistence or small-scale agriculture, which provides a living for 65% of the population. Fishing, offshore financial services, and tourism (with about 50,000 visitors in 1997) are other mainstays of the economy. Mineral deposits are negligible. The country has no known petroleum deposits. A small light-industry sector caters to the local market. Tax revenues come mainly from import duties and a 12.5 percent VAT on goods and services. Economic development is hindered by dependence on relatively few commodity exports, vulnerability to natural disasters, and long distances between constituent islands and from main markets. Vanuatus economy is primarily agricultural; 80% of the population is engaged in agricultural activities that range from subsistence farming to smallholder farming of coconuts and other cash crops. ...
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A severe earthquake in November 1999, followed by a tsunami, caused extensive damage to the northern island of Pentecote, leaving thousands homeless. Another powerful earthquake, in January 2002, caused extensive damage in the capital, Port Vila, and surrounding areas, and was also followed by a tsunami. Another earthquake of 7.2 struck on 2 August 2007.[4] This article is about the natural seismic phenomenon. ...
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Pentecost Island is one of the 83 islands that make up the South Pacific nation of Vanuatu. ...
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GDP rose less than 3%, on average, in the 1990s. In response to foreign concerns the government has promised to tighten regulation of its offshore financial centre. In mid-2002, the government stepped up efforts to boost tourism. Australia and New Zealand are the main suppliers of Vanuatu's foreign aid. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Development aid. ...
Vanuatu is a tax haven that does not release account information to other governments and law-enforcement agencies. Pressure is, however, being brought to bear on the Vanuatu government to adhere to international norms to improve transparency in this respect. In Vanuatu, there is no income tax, no withholding tax, no capital gains tax, no inheritance taxes, and no exchange controls. A disproportionally large number of ship-management companies choose to flag their ships under the Vanuatu flag, because of the tax benefits and favorable labour laws. Several file-sharing groups, such as the providers of the KaZaA network of Sharman Networks and the developers of WinMX, have chosen to incorporate in Vanuatu to avoid regulation and legal challenges. A tax haven is a place where certain taxes are levied at a low rate or not at all. ...
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Kazaa Media Desktop (once capitalized as KaZaA, but now usually left as Kazaa) is a peer-to-peer file sharing application using the FastTrack protocol. ...
Sharman Networks is a company headquartered in Australia and incorporated in Vanuatu. ...
WinMX is a freeware peer-to-peer file sharing program authored by Frontcode Technologies that runs on Microsoft Windows operating systems, created in 2001. ...
The ninth season of the reality TV series Survivor was filmed on Vanuatu, entitled Survivor: Vanuatu—Islands of Fire. Two years later, Australia's Celebrity Survivor was filmed at the same location used by the U.S. version. This article is about the television show. ...
Survivor: Vanuatu Islands of Fire is the ninth installment of the reality hit Survivor. ...
Celebrity Survivor, also known promotionally as Celebrity Survivor: Vanuatu and Australias Celebrity Survivor, is an Australian television series currently screening on the Seven Network and based on the popular reality television show Survivor. ...
Demographics -
Vanuatu has a population of 221,506.[3] Most is rural, though Port Vila and Luganville have populations in the tens of thousands. The inhabitants of Vanuatu, or Ni-Vanuatu, are in the majority (98.5%) of Melanesian descent, with the remainder made up of a mix of Europeans, Asians and other Pacific islanders. Three islands were historically colonized by Polynesians. About 2,000 Ni-Vanuatu live and work in New Caledonia. In 2006 the New Economics Foundation and Friends of the Earth environmentalist group rated Vanuatu as the happiest place to live out of 178 nations all over the world using the Happy Planet Index.[5] The population of Vanuatu is 94% indigenous Melanesian. ...
Port Vila (population 29,356, coordinates ) is the capital city of Vanuatu. ...
Luganville is the second largest city in the Republic of Vanuatu and is located on the island of Espiritu Santo. ...
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Polynesian outliers are a number of Polynesian islands which lie in Melanesia and Micronesia. ...
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Culture, language, music, and religion
Culture Vanuatu culture retains a strong diversity through local regional variations and through foreign influence. Vanuatu may be divided into three major cultural regions. In the north, wealth is established by how much one can give away. Pigs, particularly those with rounded tusks, are considered a symbol of wealth throughout Vanuatu. In the centre, more traditional Melanesian cultural systems dominate. In the south, a system involving grants of title with associated privileges has developed.[6] Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 398 × 599 pixel Image in higher resolution (2000 × 3008 pixel, file size: 3. ...
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Young men undergo various coming-of-age ceremonies and rituals to initiate them into manhood, usually including circumcision. This article is about male circumcision. ...
Music Traditional music in Vanuatu was limited to the human voice with rhythmic accompaniment from slit drums. (The remarkable, large, vertical slit gongs which symbolize Vanuatu, and are to be seen in ethnological institutions around the world, were used only for communication.) Europeans introduced musical instruments, the use of which may be increasingly heard in village dances and ceremonies.
The most popular contemporary musical genre in Vanuatu, both rural and urban, is known as string band music; it combines guitars, ukulele, and popular songs. The string band originated as a subgenre of old-time music. ...
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The ukulele (Hawaiian: , IPA pronunciation: ; Anglicised pronunciation usually IPA: ), sometimes spelled ukelele (particularly in the UK) or uke, is a chordophone classified as a plucked lute; it is a subset of the guitar family of instruments, generally with four strings or four courses of strings. ...
More recently the music of Vanuatu, as an industry, grew rapidly in the 1990s and several bands have forged a distinctive ni-Vanuatu identity. Popular genres of modern commercial music, which are currently being played in town include zouk music and reggaeton. Reggaeton, a variation of hip-hop rapped in Spanish, played alongside its own distinctive beat, is especially played in the local nightclubs of Vanuatu with, mostly, an audience of Westerners and tourists. Vanuatu is a Pacific island nation whose music industry has been rapidly growing since the 1990s. ...
Zouk is a style of rhythmic music originating from Guadeloupe and Martinique. ...
Reggaeton (also spelled Reggaetón, and known as Reguetón and Reggaetón in Spanish) is a form of urban music which became popular with Latin American (or Latino) youth during the early 1990s and spread over the course of 10 years to North American, European, Asian, and Australian audiences. ...
Languages There are three official languages: English, French, and Bislama. Bislama is a pidgin language, and now a creole in urban areas, which essentially combines a typically Melanesian grammar with a mostly English vocabulary. It is the only language that can be understood and spoken by the majority of Vanuatu's population as a second language. In addition 113 indigenous languages are still actively spoken in Vanuatu.[6] The density of languages, per capita, is the highest of any nation in the world with an average of only 2000 speakers per language. All of these vernacular languages belong to the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian family. The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...
Bislama is a Melanesian creole language, one of the official languages of Vanuatu. ...
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A creole language, or simply a creole, is a stable language that originates seemingly as a new language, sometimes with features that are not inherited from any apparent source, without however qualifying in any appreciable way as a mixed language. ...
Lingua franca, literally Frankish language in Italian, was originally a mixed language consisting largely of Italian plus a vocabulary drawn from Turkish, Persian, French, Greek and Arabic and used for communication throughout the Middle East. ...
The Oceanic languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages, containing approximately 450 languages. ...
The Austronesian languages are a language family widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, with a few members spoken on continental Asia. ...
Religion Christianity is the predominant religion in Vanuatu, consisting of several denominations. The Presbyterian Church, adhered to by about one third of the population, is the largest of them. Roman Catholic and Anglican are other common denominations, each claiming about 15% of the population. Others are the Seventh-day Adventist Church, the Church of Christ, Neil Thomas Ministries (NTM), as well as many other religious sects and denominations. Topics in Christianity Movements · Denominations · Other religions Ecumenism · Preaching · Prayer Music · Liturgy · Calendar Symbols · Art · Criticism Important figures Apostle Paul · Church Fathers Constantine · Athanasius · Augustine Anselm · Aquinas · Palamas · Luther Calvin · Wesley Arius · Marcion of Sinope Archbishop of Canterbury · Catholic Pope Coptic Pope · Ecumenical Patriarch Christianity Portal This box: Christianity is...
Presbyterianism is part of the Reformed churches family of denominations of Christian Protestantism based on the teachings of John Calvin which traces its institutional roots to the Scottish Reformation, especially as led by John Knox. ...
The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ...
The term Anglican describes those people and churches following the religious traditions of the Church of England, especially following the Reformation. ...
The Seventh-day Adventist (abbreviated Adventist[1]) Church is a Christian denomination which is distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the seventh day of the week, as the Sabbath. ...
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The Neil Thomas Ministries (NTM) is an organisation that aims to create an atmosphere of love and acceptance, with good Christian fellowship and solid teaching in the Word of God, enabling spiritual growth to every believer according to its website. ...
Because of the modernities that the military in World War II brought with them when they came to the islands, several cargo cults developed. Many died out, but the John Frum cult on Tanna is still large, and has adherents in the parliament. Also on Tanna is the Prince Philip Movement, which reveres the United Kingdom's Prince Philip.[7] Villagers of the Yaohnanen tribe believed in an ancient story about the pale-skinned son of a mountain spirit venturing across the seas to look for a powerful woman to marry. Prince Philip, having visited the island with his new wife Queen Elizabeth, fitted the description exactly and is therefore revered and even held as a god around the isle of Tanna. Islam in Vanuatu is made up of about 100–200 converts.[8] Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki TÅjÅ Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...
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Jon Frum (or John Frum) is a figure associated with cargo cults in Vanuatu. ...
Tanna (sometimes spelled Tana) is an island of Vanuatu. ...
The Prince Philip Movement is a cargo cult of the Yaohnanen tribe in Vanuatu, who believe that Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh is a divine being. ...
HRH The Duke of Edinburgh His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (Philip Mountbatten), styled HRH The Duke of Edinburgh (born June 10, 1921), is the consort of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. ...
The Yaohnanen is a tribe of people from the island of Tanna in Vanuatu. ...
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Education In Port Vila, and three other centres, are locations of the University of the South Pacific, an educational institution co-owned by twelve Pacific countries. The campus in Port Vila, known as the Emalus Campus, houses the University's law school. Port Vila (population 29,356, coordinates ) is the capital city of Vanuatu. ...
The University of the South Pacific (USP) is the premier provider of tertiary education in the Pacific Region, and an international centre of excellence for teaching and research on all aspects of Pacific culture and environment. ...
See also Telephones - main lines in use: 2,500 (1995) Telephones - mobile cellular: 121 (1995) Telephone Density: 1 telephone per 200 people Telephone system: domestic: NA international: satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Pacific Ocean) Radio broadcast stations: AM 2, FM 2, shortwave 1 (1998) Radios: 62,000 (1997) Television broadcast stations: 1...
Railways: 0 km Highways: total: 1,070 km paved: 256 km unpaved: 814 km (1996 est. ...
Jon Frum (or John Frum) is a figure associated with cargo cults in Vanuatu. ...
References The Encyclopædia Britannica is a general English-language encyclopaedia published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. ...
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Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
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Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
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Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
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Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
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