Martyrs of Everywhere

The Melanesian Brotherhood is a community of men in the Solomon Islands founded in 1925 by a local policeman and the local Anglican Bishop. During 1999-2000 ethnic tension in the Solomon Islands, with various rebel groups killing each other, the Brothers took on a leading role in making peace, which led to the Townsville Peace Agreement. However, one rebel leader, Harold Keke, did not accept the agreement, and continued to lead the "Guadalcanal Revolutionary Army". Harold Keke was raised a Catholic then later embraced Evangelical Christianity. On Easter 2003, one of the members of the Melanesian Brotherhood, Brother Nathaniel Sado, who knew Harold Keke personally, went to reason with him but he did not return. Suspected the worst, six of the brothers went to investigate and ask for Br. Nathaniel's body back. These Brothers also did not return. In August 2008 it was confirmed that they had all been killed. Their bodies were interred in October 2003 at Tabalia, and their funeral was attended by thousands. A banner was carried before each coffin with the words "Blessed are the peacemakers".

At the 2008 Lambeth Conference, the names of the Seven Melanesian Martyrs were added to the list of contemporary Martyrs of the Anglican Church, and an Icon of them was placed in Canterbury Cathedral.