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Papua New Guinea has its first saint after Pope Francis approved the canonisation of local preacher Peter ToRot.
Pope Leo XIV canonised the PNG priest at a mass before an estimated 55,000 people in St Peter's Square.
In all, seven people were canonised in a ceremony that Pope Francis put in motion in some of his final acts as pope.
Born at Rakunai village on the island of East New Britain in 1912, Peter ToRot led a Catholic mission during the Japanese occupation in World War II.
He was arrested and held in a Japanese prison in 1945 for practising Catholicism and was given an injection that reportedly killed him.
In April, the Holy See Press Office published a notice saying Pope Francis had approved the canonisation of Peter ToRot, following a vote by cardinal fathers and bishops.
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