Brandishing his government-gifted medals near a statue of the Virgin Mary in East Timor's capital, ex-rebel Crisanto de Jesus Alves da Costa says Pope Francis' message of hope on a rare visit last ...
(VALENTINO DARIELL DE SOUSA/AFP/AFP) East Timor's parliament on Wednesday said it would scrap lifetime pensions for MPs, bowing to public pressure after dropping a plan to buy SUVs for lawmakers in ...
East Timor has been formally admitted into the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in the group’s first expansion since ...
An estimated 600,000 people in East Timor, just under half its population, turned out in the baking heat on Tuesday for a Mass with Pope Francis at a coastal park synonymous with the country’s long ...
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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 ...
East Timor is slated to become the 11th member of the ASEAN regional bloc in October, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said Tuesday during a visit to the Southeast Asian nation. The accession ...
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 ...
Imagine throwing a party after 400 years of waiting, only to have tanks show up nine days later. That’s how East Timor’s story started – like the worst housewarming party ever. For 24 years, Indonesia ...
East Timor was formally admitted Sunday into the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in the group’s first expansion since the 1990s. The integration of the nation — with just 1.4 million people — i ...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The Association of Southeast Asian Nations welcomed East Timor as its newest member Sunday, which its prime minister said was a “dream realized” for the tiny nation.