The president of East Timor sees Pope Francis ... and youthful nation of 1.3 million people, also known as Timor-Leste, following visits to Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Walls are still being ...

Pope Francis delivers his speech during his weekly general audience in the St. Peter's Square at the Vatican March 13. (Andrew Medichini/The Associated Press) ...

Francis arrived in Dili from Papua New Guinea to follow in John ... reaffirmed last week ahead of Francis’s trip, many people in East Timor have stood by Belo, either dismissing, denying or ...

West Papua has long been the site of a low-level separatist insurgency with Indonesian authorities accused of mass arrests to silence activists. The tribes and groups called on people to boycott firms ...

Separatists in Indonesia's restive eastern region of Papua have killed at least 11 people working as gold miners in less than a week, the defence ministry said on April 10, with rebels claiming they ...

Thu, April 10, 2025 Published on Apr. 10, 2025 Published on 2025-04-10T12:44:03+07:00 ebels in Papua region said on Thursday they have killed more than 17 people since the weekend, claiming that ...

which was attended by at least 35,000 people. Pope Francis is visiting Papua New Guinea until Monday as part of a tour that first included a stop in Indonesia. He travels next to East Timor ...

Dozens of people have been evacuated ... A Catholic teacher in the Indonesian province of East Nusa Tenggara has been killed in a violent attack by Papuan independence militiamen.