An estimated 600,000 people — nearly half of East Timor’s population —- packed a seaside park Tuesday for Pope Francis’ final Mass, held on the same field where St. John Paul II prayed 35 ...

Francis is the first pope to visit East Timor since it gained independence from Indonesia in 2002, becoming the first new sovereign state of the 21st century.

(RNS) — Catholicism may be in decline in the West, but in East Timor, thousands gathered to catch a glimpse of the pope from the end of the world.

Pope Francis celebrated a papal mass in East Timor on Monday, drawing a crowd of over 600,000 worshipers representing almost half of the country's entire population.

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Pope Francis is visiting East Timor after a clergy abuse scandal, but will he address it? When the Vatican acknowledged in 2022 that the Nobel Peace Prize-winning, East Timorese independence hero ...

DILI, East Timor (Reuters) - The first ever cardinal of Roman Catholic-majority East Timor had barely had time to process the news of Pope Francis' death when he received the summons to attend the ...

Pope Francis, East Timor's President Jose Ramos-Horta and Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao pose for a photo during a meeting with authorities, civil society and the diplomatic corps at the ...

Tears, Memories as Fervently Catholic East Timor Mourns Pope Francis By Ananda Teresia DILI (Reuters) -More than 1,500 people packed into a cathedral in East Timor on Tuesday and an overspill of ...

Nearly half of East Timor’s population —- packed a seaside park Tuesday for Pope Francis’ final Mass, held on the same field where St. John Paul II prayed 35 years ago.

Pope Francis meets with East Timor’s President José Manuel Ramos-Horta, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and a prominent figure in East Timor’s struggle for independence, at the Presidential ...