(5 Sep 2024)
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Presidential Palace, Dili, East Timor – 5 September 2024
1. East Timor President Ramos Horta signs plaque inaugurating new banquet hall to host the Pope
2. East Timor President Ramos Horta (glasses) & East Timor Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao at ribbon cutting ceremony of new banquet hall.
3. Dom Virgilio Cardeal, archbishop of Dili, reading prayer
4. Dom Virgilio Cardeal, archbishop of Dili, blessing new banquet hall
5. Xanana Gusmao and Ramos Horta
6. Various of room to be used during Pope visit
7. Various exteriors of presidential palace
8. East Timor flags
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Tasi Tolo, East Timor – 5 September 2024
9. Tomas do Rosario Cabral at briefing on preparation
10. SOUNDBITE (Indonesian) Tomas do Rosario Cabral – Minister of State Administration of East Timor
“We can easily say that the preparations are 95 percent completed. In fact I should say it’s all completed, we just need to add finishing touches. Now we are focusing on the venues where crowds will come from the countryside, including groups from Indonesia.”
11. The cross
12. Workers at venue in Tasi Tolo
13. The venue at Tasi Tolo
14. Various of military guarding venue
15. SOUNDBITE (Indonesian) Tomas do Rosario Cabral – Minister of State Administration of East Timor:
“Australia has gladly helped with some of our needs. For example we need water tanks and Australia will help. Also a special medical plane will be stationed here in case something happens to the Pope and will fly straight to Darwin.”
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Nicolao Lobato Airport, Dili, East Timor – 5 September 2024
16. Various Pope Francis welcome posters
17. Various airport gate
STORYLINE:
Officials in East Timor say they are all ready to receive the Pope, who is expected to draw crowds in the hundreds of thousands when he visits the tiny Catholic country next week as part of a trip around the region.
East Timor’s President Ramos Horta inaugurated a newly constructed banquet hall and presidential palace where he will receive the Pope, that was built with the help of the Chinese government.
Australia is providing water tanks and has dispatched a special medical plane to be based in the capital, Dili, in case of an emergency.
But amid the ecstatic crowds, Frances will have to confront the legacy of a clerical sexual abuse scandal in the country.
Revered independence hero and Nobel Peace Prize winner Bishop Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo was secretly sanctioned by the Vatican in 2020 for sexually abusing young boys.
There is no word on whether Francis will refer to Belo, who is still revered in East Timor but has been barred by the Vatican from ever returning.
AP Video by Syawalludin Zain
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