In EastTimor, a country where 98% of the population is Catholic, Pope Francis was met with great enthusiasm on Tuesday by local clergy and religious. About 600 clergy and religious crammed into ...
An estimated 600,000 people — nearly half of EastTimor’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, EastTimor (AP) — Pope Francis received a raucous welcome Monday as he arrived in EastTimor to celebrate its recovery from a bloody and traumatic independence battle, even as he ...
On the second day of his apostolic visit to EastTimor (Timor-Leste), Pope Francis first met with children and religious sisters at the Irmãs Alma School in Dili on Tuesday morning and thanked ...