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 ...

East Timor is the third stop on the Pope’s Sept. 2–13 trip to four countries in Southeast Asia and Oceania. While in East Timor, the pope will meet with youth, ...

The overwhelmingly Catholic East Timor, one of the world’s poorest countries and Asia’s youngest, eagerly awaited Francis’ arrival, which came on the heels of the 25th anniversary of the U.N ...

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 ...