“The pope’s visit is the biggest, the best marketing anyone can aspire to promote the country, to put the country on the tourist map,” East Timor’s President Jose Ramos-Horta said in an ...

East Timor Couple Have Seen Two Popes Visit, Pray They Will See Francis' Successor By Ananda Teresia and Yuddy Cahya Budiman DILI, East Timor (Reuters) -A devout Roman Catholic couple in East ...

DILI, East Timor (AP) — Pope Francis received a raucous welcome Monday as he arrived in East Timor to celebrate its recovery from a bloody and traumatic independence battle, even as he ...

The United Nations has frequently cited East Timor as a model nation-building project. But new unrest in the tiny Asian state indicates that the international community has again failed to show ...

East Timor achieved independence in 2002, after years of war against an occupying Indonesian military. On his visit last year, Pope Francis lauded the impoverished, nascent nation for its ...

DILI, East Timor (Reuters) - A devout Roman Catholic couple in East Timor has seen firsthand two popes visit their tiny Asian country and now they are praying they may witness another, once a ...

Just months after Pope Francis visited Catholic-majority East Timor, residents are mourning his death with flags at half-mast, candle-lit vigils and emotional ...

More than 97% of East Timor's 1.3 million people are Roman Catholics, one of the largest Catholic majorities in the world. Along with the Philippines, it is also one of only two predominantly ...

Dili (East Timor) (AFP) – Just months after Pope Francis visited Catholic-majority East Timor, residents on Tuesday mourned his death with flags at half-mast, candle-lit vigils and emotional ...