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Pope Francis leaves East Timor: ‘I’ll never forget your smiles’

September 11, 2024 Catholic News Agency 1

Pope Francis speaks at the Dili Convention Center in East Timor, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA

Rome Newsroom, Sep 11, 2024 / 11:15 am (CNA).
Before departing East Timor on Wednesday, Pope Francis told a group of young a… […]

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Pope Francis’ Mass in East Timor draws 600,000 Catholics

September 10, 2024 Catholic News Agency 3

Pope Francis during Mass at the Esplanade of Taci Tolu in Dili, Timor-Leste, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA

Dili, East Timor, Sep 10, 2024 / 13:21 pm (CNA).
An estimated 600,000 Catholics attended Pope Francis’ Mass on Tue… […]

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Pope Francis in East Timor says children show us how to ‘be cared for by God’

September 10, 2024 Catholic News Agency 1

Pope Francis blesses children at the Irmas Alma School in Timor-Leste on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024 / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA

Rome Newsroom, Sep 10, 2024 / 10:45 am (CNA).
On the second day of his apostolic visit to East Timor (Timor-Leste), Pop… […]

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Pope Francis arrives in East Timor, Asia’s youngest and most Catholic country

September 9, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

Pope Francis arrives in East Timor on Sept. 9, 2024. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA

Dili, East Timor, Sep 9, 2024 / 11:06 am (CNA).
Upon his arrival in the Catholic island of East Timor on Monday, Pope Francis entrusted the new country to the Bles… […]

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Vatican confirms East Timor bishop under ‘restrictions’ related to sexual abuse of minors

September 29, 2022 Catholic News Agency 1

Carlos Ximenes Felipe Belo, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for efforts related to East Timor, speaks during an Indonesian Commission of Truth and Friendship (CTF) public hearing in Jakarta, March 26 March. / Photo credit: AHMAD ZAMRONI/AFP via Ge… […]

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Pope Francis says he wants to travel to Oceania and Africa

October 22, 2021 Catholic News Agency 1

Pope Francis pictured on April 17, 2013. / Mazur/catholicnews.org.uk.

Vatican City, Oct 22, 2021 / 11:45 am (CNA).
Pope Francis said in an interview published Friday that he has several international trips in mind for 2022, as he picks up pace f… […]

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Timor-Leste: A young nation with strong faith and heavy burdens

April 24, 2019 R. Cavanaugh 6

Aside from the Philippines, Timor-Leste (also known as East Timor) is Southeast Asia’s only predominantly Christian nation. And when one talks about Christianity in that country, that basically means the Church of Rome: multiple sources […]

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