Pope Francis received a rapturous welcome from the tiny Southeast Asian nation of East Timor, one of the world’s most Catholic countries, where almost half the population turned out for an open ...

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. Tuesday, July 08, 2025.

More than 95% of East Timor’s 1.4 million people are Catholic. Pope John Paul II visited the region in 1989, and he is credited with inspiring its people to gain independence from Indonesia, in ...

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.

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 ...

Banners of Pope Francis had been unfurled across Dili, the capital of East Timor, its streets scrubbed and its walls freshly painted. Hundreds of thousands of people were expected to try to catch ...

Pope Francis received a rapturous welcome from the tiny Southeast Asian nation of East Timor, one of the world’s most Catholic countries, where almost half the population turned out for an open ...

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 is visiting East Timor after a clergy abuse scandal, but will he address it? Pope Francis will come face to face with the Timorese faithful on his first trip to the country, ...

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 ...