This was an interesting programme fronted by trendy hippy CofE Vicar Peter Jones: Around the World in 80 Faiths

He met this character 'Prophet Fred' who has with his own brand of peaceful Christianity 'The Church of Unity', helped to reconcile religious divisions between the Christianity rejecting John Frum Cult* and the Missionary imported Presbyterian Christianity, amongst his people, by drawing upon common traditions from the original indiginous faith.


* "The John Frum cult first emerged in Vanuatu in the 1930s, when the island was jointly ruled by Britain and France as the New Hebrides.
Villagers have lived peacefully with the cult for decades
Rebelling against the influence of Presbyterian missionaries, dozens of villages on Tanna put their faith in the shadowy figure of John Frum, variously described as either a real person or a spirit.
They believed he would drive out their colonial masters and re-establish their traditional ways.
There are now dozens of these so-called John Frum villages on Tanna.
The cult was reinforced during the Second World War, when the US military arrived with huge amounts of cargo, such as tanks, ships, weapons, medicine and food."

Beeb article: Culture Clash in the South Seas