An estimated 600,000 people packed a seaside park in East Timor for Pope Francis' Mass — a figure nearing half of the small ...

Pope Francis arrived on Monday in East Timor, a predominantly Catholic nation in Southeast Asia, for a three-day visit that ...

Former Portuguese colony East Timor is a half-island nation of 1.3 million people north of Australia and one of only two predominantly Catholic countries in Asia. The Vatican estimated 600,000 had ...

The Roman Catholic Church played an important part in East Timor’s independence struggle. But one of its heroes from that ...

After a fight between the Dutch and the Portuguese, Portuguese sovereignty over the eastern part of the island (now East ...

Pope Francis has praised the post-war reconciliation process in East Timor as a model for other conflict regions, at the ...

The president of East Timor sees Pope Francis' upcoming visit as a prime opportunity to promote Asia's youngest country on ...

East Timor is celebrating the 25th anniversary of a U.N.-backed referendum that secured its independence from its major neighbor Indonesia, which invaded the former Portuguese colony in 1975.

East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta said on Wednesday a deal with Australia on a vast fossil fuel project seen as crucial ...

DILI (Reuters) - An estimated 600,000 people in East Timor, just under half its population, turned out in the baking heat on ...

After a fight between the Dutch and the Portuguese, Portuguese sovereignty over the eastern part of the island (now East Timor) was established in the latter half of the 19th century. The ...