DILI, East Timor (AP) — East Timor is in a festive mood as it prepares for the arrival of Pope Francis on his first trip to the deeply Catholic country, hard on the heels of the 25th anniversary of ...

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 ...

A former Filipino Congressman charged with multiple murders in the Philippines, Arnolfo Teves Jr, center, is escorted by police officers in Dili, East Timor, Thursday, May 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Sony da ...

On the second day of his apostolic visit to East Timor (Timor-Leste), Pope Francis first met with children and religious sisters at the Irmãs Alma School in Dili on Tuesday morning and thanked them ...

Timor Resources will drill its first exploration well onshore East Timor in April 2019 as it attempts to uncover an oil bonanza for the Southeast Asian nation. Consultancy Netherland Sewell, which ...

The Asian continent has two majority-Christian nations. One, obviously, is the Philippines. Few nonspecialists would know the other example: East Timor. Lying between Australia and Indonesia, it is ...

THE East Timorese who had sneaked into Jakarta came from all over Indonesia—some all the way from their homeland itself. They knew where, on June 12th, they wanted to stage their first big protest in ...

Journalists and human rights activists are urging the President of East Timor to scrap a bill deemed a serious threat to press freedom, warning that the nascent democracy could be heading toward ...