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While the country is getting ready to welcome Pope Francis in September, amendments have been proposed to assert the country’s Christian identity. For the Catholic Bishops' Conference, this is a “dangerous” step that “obscures and even erases our unique Melanesian identity [. . .] rather than acknowledge, celebrate and perfect it through the Gospel”. The backers of the constitutional changes are the same groups that got the King James Bible inside parliament in 2015, promising “blessings and riches”.

Some Protestants are flirting with the political philosophy of integralism, which grows out of Catholic political theory in which the church rules the state, exercising coercive power for the supernatural good. That includes punishing heretics. Such as Protestants. In an integralist state, non-Catholics must at best be second class citizens, as a study of the movement makes clear.