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East Timorese flock to seaside park for Pope Francis' Mass at site of John Paul II's historic visit
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Associated Press DILI, East Timor (AP) — Tens of thousands of East Timorese streamed Tuesday toward a seaside park for Pope Francis’ big Mass, held on the same field where St. John Paul II celebrated an historic liturgy during East Timor’s fight for independence from Indonesian rule.
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Pope Francis in East Timor for Mass that could draw half its population
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East Timorese flock to seaside park for Pope Francis' Mass at site of John Paul II's historic visit
DILI, East Timor -- Pope Francis arrived on Monday in East Timor, a predominantly Catholic nation in Southeast Asia, for a three-day visit that will include an open-air celebration of
Nearly half of East Timor’s population —- packed a seaside park Tuesday for Pope Francis’ final Mass, held on the same field where St. John Paul II prayed 35 years ago.
Popes are popular. So much so that nearly half the population of East Timor gathered Tuesday in a seaside park for Pope Francis' final Mass in the small Southeast Asian country whose people are deeply Catholic.
Associated Press DILI, East Timor (AP) — Tens of thousands of East Timorese streamed Tuesday toward a seaside park for Pope Francis’ big Mass, held on the same field where St. John Paul II celebrated an historic liturgy during East Timor’s fight for independence from Indonesian rule.
While other papal Masses have drawn millions of people in more populous countries and there were certainly other nationalities attending Tuesday's Mass, the crowd in small East Timor was believed to represent the biggest turnout for a papal event ever, in terms of the proportion of the population.
Pope Francis celebrated a papal mass in East Timor on Monday, drawing a crowd of over 600,000 worshipers representing almost half of the country's entire population.
Some 600,000 Catholics in Timor Leste, almost half the population of the majority-Catholic country, attended the Mass celebrated by Pope Francis on the evening of Sept. 10.
An estimated 600,000 people packed a seaside park in East Timor for Pope Francis' Mass — a figure nearing half of the small Southeast Asian country's population.
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