(10 Sep 2024)
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Tasitolu, East Timor – 10 September 2024
1. People walking to reach TaciTolu open air mass venue
2. Man with shirt reading (Portuguese): ‘May your Faith be your culture’, the motto chosen for Papal visit
3. Various vehicles left on the street and people walking
4. People walking among the cars parked in the middle of the street
5. Various of people walking with Vatican-colored umbrellas
6. Wide of TaciTolu field filled with people holding Vatican-colored umbrellas, being watered with hose due to heat
7. Wide of crowd
8. People with traditional clothes on altar
9. Priest with Vatican-colored umbrella
10 . Wide of crowd
11. Tracking shot showing people on the streets waiting for the pope motorcade
STORYLINE:
Hundreds of thousands of people gathered at an open-air venue in East Timor where Pope Francis was due to hold Mass on Tuesday.
Many walked long distances to reach the esplanade at Tasitolu, on the seaside 8 kilometres from the capital, Dili.
More than 300,000 faithful are 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 Timorese 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 and Nicole Winfield
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