After brief civil war, left-wing Fretilin party unilaterally declares East Timor independent. Indonesia invades, using its fight against communism as a pretext. It annexes territory in a move not ...

Amid civil war, East Timor was annexed by Indonesia in 1976 and declared the country’s 27th province following Portugal’s democratization and its decision to shed its colonies the year before.

Pope Francis has praised the post-war reconciliation process in East Timor as a model for other conflict regions, at the start of his visit to the South-East Asian state. "Heaven grant that the ...

Many in East Timor, even opposition politicians and civil society leaders critical of Gusmao on other issues, said in interviews that they agree. The country of 1.3 million, with an economy one ...

East Timor achieved independence in 2002, after years of war against an occupying Indonesian military. On his visit last year, Pope Francis lauded the impoverished, nascent nation for its ...

Helde Marcal Belo, a civil servant, in tears after the Mass, said he had been moved by Francis' decision to visit East Timor last year as part of a gruelling 12-day tour of Asia and Oceania, the ...

After brief civil war, left-wing Fretilin party unilaterally declares East Timor independent. Indonesia invades, using its fight against communism as a pretext. It annexes territory in a move not ...