Wamena cemetery

Wamena cemetery
Some priests claim during mass that AIDS is a punishment from God to those who have sinned. Churches are slow to tackle the problem, and it can still be a problem to find a priest to bury someone who has died of AIDS. A young NGO worker who studied theology tells us that he sometimes spends many days looking for priests to perform funerals for HIV patients, knocking on many closed doors and being turned back.

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Wamena cemetery<br />
Some priests claim during mass that AIDS is a punishment from God to those who have sinned. Churches are slow to tackle the problem, and it can still be a problem to find a priest to bury someone who has died of AIDS. A young NGO worker who studied theology tells us that he sometimes spends many days looking for priests to perform funerals for HIV patients, knocking on many closed doors and being turned back.