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Pope Francis holds mammoth Mass in East Timor
Pope Francis celebrated an open-air Mass for around 600,000 people in the Southeast Asian nation of East Timor ... girls in ...
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The Growing Pains of Asia’s Newest Country
East Timor has become a stable democracy after securing independence in 2002. But its finances are precarious, and nearly half of its people live in poverty. Vendors at the Taibesi market in Dili ...
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Human Rights Developments
On October 19, the Indonesian People's Consultative Assembly voted to accept the results of the August 30 referendum in which close to 80 percent of East Timor's population had voted to separate ...
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The AP Interview: East Timor's president says the pope's visit isn't time to dwell on past sins
DILI, East Timor (AP ... arrive Monday in the impoverished and youthful nation of 1.3 million people, also known as Timor-Leste, following visits to Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
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East Timor has a historic opportunity to break ASEAN deadlock on Myanmar
Like Myanmar today, East Timor spent decades under violent military rule, which subjected the Timorese people to massacres, forced displacement and systemic violence. Only through the principled ...