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East Timor PM Says Francis Left Legacy Of Reconciliation, Tackled Abuse

East Timor Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao told AFP on Friday that Pope Francis left a legacy of reconciliation but also confronted the issue of child abuse during a rare visit to Asia's youngest nation last year.

International Business Times · Apr 25, 2025

Child Abuse Scandals Hang Over Pope's East Timor Visit

When Pope Francis becomes the first pontiff to visit an independent East Timor, he will confront a clergy beset by child abuse scandals that have been largely ignored by the deeply Catholic country's freedom heroes.

International Business Times · Sep 8, 2024

Catholic Church Scandal In East Timor Raises Concerns

Catholic Church in East Timor faces clergy sexual abuse allegations; victims seek Pope's acknowledgment.

Takeaways from AP's report on clergy abuse scandal in East Timor ahead of Pope Francis' visit

When Pope Francis makes his trip to Asia's youngest country, East Timor, it will make him the second pope to visit after John Paul in 1989, and the first since the country gained independence from Indonesia in 2002

The Independent UK · Aug 28, 2024

Pope Francis is visiting East Timor after a clergy abuse scandal, but will he address it?

When the Vatican acknowledged in 2022 that the Nobel Peace Prize-winning, East Timorese independence hero Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo had sexually abused young boys, it appeared that the global clergy sexual abuse scandal that has compromised the Catholic Church’s credibility around the world had finally arrived in Asia’s newest country

The Independent UK · Aug 28, 2024

Bishop who won Nobel for work in Timor accused of sex abuse

A Dutch magazine has reported that a Nobel Peace Prize-winning Catholic bishop has been accused of sexually abusing boys in East Timor in the 1990s

The Independent UK · Sep 29, 2022

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