Women's role

Women should be on equal parity to men - Samoan church minister

Rev. Dr. Marie Ropeti-Apisaloma says women should be ordained ministers in the church and be given leadership roles.

Ropeti-Apisaloma argues the early missionaries brought a patriarchal view with them that discouraged women. 

Her new book Nafanua Theology:  A Samoan-Christian argument for women in ordained ministry contests the traditional views on who gets ordained.