From ABC (AU):
Papua New Guinea has its first saint after Pope Francis approved the canonization of local preacher Peter ToRot.
Pope Leo XIV canonized the PNG catechist at a mass before an estimated 55,000 people in St Peter’s Square. 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 practicing Catholicism and was given an injection that reportedly killed him.