Missionaries first brought the Catholic faith to the island of Timor, off the northern coast of Australia, in 1515. East Timor’s President José Ramos-Horta and Cardinal Virgílio do Carmo da ...
In East Timor, 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 the ...
Pope Francis received a rapturous welcome from the tiny Southeast Asian nation of East Timor, one of the world’s most Catholic countries, where almost half the population turned out for an open-air ...