(10 Sep 2024)
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Tasitolu, East Timor – 10 September 2024
1. Various of faithful awaiting Mass with Pope Francis, gathered beneath yellow and white umbrellas
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Nicole Winfield, The Associated Press:
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"Pope Francis is celebrating Mass in East Timor. Tens of thousands of people have come out. It’s a sea of yellow and white umbrellas. These are the colours of the Holy See. They’re trying to shade themselves from the very hot sun. This is the same site as where Pope John Paul II celebrated Mass in 1989. At the time, East Timor was part of Indonesia. It was fighting for independence and John Paul had come to encourage the people, the overwhelmingly Catholic people of East Timor, in their independence fight. Pope Francis is now here. It’s an independent nation. He’s the first pope to come back to celebrate their independence, celebrate their faith and urge them to continue developing. It’s a poor country, but they are very rich in faith."
3.Various of faithful awaiting Mass with Pope Francis, gathered beneath yellow and white umbrellas
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Tasitolu, East Timor – 10 Sept. 2024
4. STILL – Pope Francis arrives at Tasitolu Park to preside at mass
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Tasitolu, East Timor – 10 September 2024
5. STILL – Archbishop of Dili Cardinal Virgilio do Carmo da Silva protects Pope Francis from the sun with an umbrella with the colors of the Vatican flag as he arrives to preside over a mass
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Tasitolu, East Timor – 10 September 2024
6. Tilt up of faithful waiting
STORYLINE:
Huge crowds of East Timorese streamed toward a seaside park for Pope Francis’ big Mass Tuesday, as the pontiff continues his historic visit to one of the world’s youngest and poorest countries.
Hundreds of thousands of faithful were expected at the Eucharistic celebration, including several thousand living near the border of Indonesia’s West Timor, the western part of the island of Timor.
The event is being held on the same field where St. John Paul II celebrated an historic liturgy during the nation’s fight for independence from Indonesia.
That visit helped draw attention to the plight of the Timorese people and shine a spotlight on the oppressiveness of Indonesia’s rule, during which as many as 200,000 people were killed over a quarter-century.
Francis now follows in John Paul’s footsteps to cheer the Southeast Asian nation on two decades after it finally became an independent state in 2002.
East Timor, known also as Timor-Leste, remains one of the poorest countries, with some 42% of its 1.3 million people living below the poverty line, according to the U.N. Development Program.
But the Timroese are deeply faithful – the territory has been overwhelmingly Catholic ever since Portuguese explorers first arrived in the early 1500s and some 97% of the population today is Catholic.
AP video shot by Helena Alves
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