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 ...
DILI (Reuters) - Pope Francis arrived on Monday in East Timor, a predominantly Catholic nation in Southeast Asia, for a three-day visit that will include an open-air celebration of Mass the ...
East Timor pulled out all stops for Pope Francis’ historic visit to one of the world’s youngest and poorest countries to the tune of 12 million dollars (£9.1 million), drawing rebuke from activists ...
Francis landed in Dili, the capital, for a 48-hour stop on his two-week tour through Asia. More than 95% of East Timor’s 1.4 million people are Catholic. Pope John Paul II visited the region in ...
By Sui-Lee Wee Reporting from Dili, East Timor Banners of Pope Francis had been unfurled across Dili, the capital of East Timor, its streets scrubbed and its walls freshly painted. Hundreds of ...
Upon his arrival in the Catholic island of East Timor on Monday, Pope Francis entrusted the new country to the Blessed Virgin Mary, “I entrust East Timor and all its people to the protection of ...
Pope Francis on third leg of ambitious four-country trip Vatican expects 750,000 people for open-air Mass on Tuesday East Timor, population 96% Catholic, recently affected by abuse scandals DILI ...
An estimated 600,000 Catholics attended Pope Francis’ Mass on Tuesday in East Timor, a small island country that is 98% Catholic. The pope celebrated the youthfulness of East Timor at the ...
Pope Francis publicly thanked God for allowing him “to do as an old pope what I would have liked to do as a young Jesuit...” ...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday that the East Asia Summit will provide an opportunity to deliberate on the ...
TASITOLU, East Timor — 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 ...
