An estimated 600,000 people — a figure nearing half of East Timor’s population — packed a seaside park Tuesday for Pope Francis’ final Mass, held on the same field where St. John Paul II prayed during the nation’s fight for independence from Indonesia.
Pope Francis' Mass in East Timor draws 600,000 people, nearly half the population
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