
A Southeast Asian nation has started demolishing homes ahead of a planned visit by Pope Francis, who's set to celebrate an outdoor mass for an estimated 700,000 people next month.
Officials in Timor-Leste, formerly East Timor, have told about 90 residents of Tasitolu, outside the capital of Dili, that they have to make way as the country prepares to host the pontiff, the BBC reported Friday.