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 ...

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 ...

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. Monday, June 30, 2025.

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.

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Pope Francis celebrated an open-air Mass for around 600,000 people in the Southeast Asian nation of East Timor on Tuesday. The gathering took place at the Tasitolu coastal area, a place of ...

Francis is the first pope to visit East Timor since it gained independence in 2002, and the only pope to make a trip there at all apart from John Paul II, whose visit 34 years ago gave the country ...

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 ...

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 during the nation’s fight ...

Pope Francis consoles a person during a visit at the 'Irmas ALMA' (Sisters of the Association of Lay Missionaries) School for Children with Disabilities in Dili, East Timor, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024.