Catholicism may be in decline in the West, but in East Timor, thousands gathered to catch a glimpse of the pope from the end ...

Pope Francis attends the meeting with young people in Centro de Convencoes in Dili, East Timor, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024.

Bruce Christie never anticipated the impact of sharing a game that reminded him of home during his years in Indonesia in the ...

Rights groups remind one of the youngest nations of its constitution that backs freedom struggle in other countries ...

Pope Francis arrived in the former Portuguese colony on Sept. 9 as part of his 11-day Asia-Pacific trip — the longest in his ...

East Timor is at an energy development crossroads. While the small Southeast Asian nation — and one of the world’s youngest countries — has made international and ...

Timor Leste, or East Timor, is a Southeast Asian nation that occupies half of the island of Timor and is almost the size of ...

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 ...

It has been 25 years since Timor Leste's referendum to end Indonesian occupation sparked brutal violence from the withdrawing forces. Australia played a pivotal role in the conflict and the ...

By October the Oecussi enclave on the north coast of West Timor had been secured. With calm restored, a large United Nations peacekeeping force took over from INTERFET in February 2000.

It’s easy, amid all the destruction and suffering in Gaza, to overlook what is happening as little as 34 miles away in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. For much of the past 11 months—during ...

Jakarta (AsiaNews) – Pope Francis left Rome this afternoon on his apostolic journey to Asia and Oceania, which will last until 13 September, taking him to Indonesia, Papua New Guinea ...