East Timor turns out in force for mass with Pope Francis | Religion News

East Timor turns out in force for mass with Pope Francis | Religion News

Pope Francis has celebrated a mass for hundreds of thousands of faithful in East Timor, rallying nearly half the population of the world’s most Roman Catholic country outside the Vatican in stifling tropical heat. Pilgrims clamoured to catch a glimpse of the 87-year-old pontiff who appeared in good spirits on…

Ancient humans lived in East Timor 44,000 years ago, archaeologists find | History News

Ancient humans lived in East Timor 44,000 years ago, archaeologists find | History News

Stone artefacts and animal bones found in a deep cave in northern East Timor offer new insights into where ancient humans lived more than 35,000 years before Egyptians built the first pyramids. Archaeologists from Australian and United Kingdom universities say thousands of stone artefacts and animal bones found in a…