Welcome to Oceania!

This week we pray for a whole bunch of places you may not have heard of, all (as best I can tell) located in the region of Oceania, which we used to call South Pacific before the movie:

American Samoa
Cook Islands
Fiji
French Polynesia
Kiribati
Marshall Islands
New Caledonia
Niue
Papua New Guinea
Samoa
Solomon Islands
Tonga
Tuvalu
Vanuatu

Oh, I'll need some help on these.  The BYU Hawai'i campus runs a Polynesian Cultural Center which highlights some of these island cultures, so my visits there taught me enough to know that Tonga isn't just a descriptor for the French Toast they serve at Disney's Polynesian Resort.  But otherwise, I'm not a big resource.  Here are some possible leads:

The WCC seems to have links for most of these countries' churches here. It's on the right side of the page.

Here's a little story from FIDES about the 170 years of Catholic missions work in some French Polynesian islands.

They got a new bishop in Papua New Guinea this summer.  From Pittsburgh!

And here's a little info from Catholic Relief Services about work they do in the Pacific.  But only a little.