Pastor Nafuki, who hailed from the island of Erromango, passed away at his Port Vila home last week, a champion of the rights of oppressed Pacific peoples.
A member of the Pacific Council of Churches, he was a leading advocate on regional self-determination causes.
As Chairman of the Vanuatu Free West Papua Association, Pastor Nafuki campaigned for years for the Indonesian-controlled Papua region to become independent.
The general secretary of the Pacific Conference of Churches, James Bhagwan, says Pastor Nafuki did decades of important work and has left a legacy.
