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Category: East Timor
East Timor

Justice is Key to Development

Long-term development in East Timor – which celebrated the tenth anniversary of its vote for independence on August 29 – will be “seriously hindered” if justice for past crimes remains undelivered, the international development agency Progressio has warned. Despite a decade of self-rule, East Timor is still the poorest country in the region and one of the least developed nations in the world. An estimated 40% of the East Timorese people live on less than a dollar a day.

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Medals To Bishop, Priests And Nuns

The government of Timor Leste (East Timor) has awarded the Dom Martinho da Costa Lopes Medal to several deceased Catholic clergy and Religious in recognition of their contributions to the liberation of the country. The honor, named after the late administrator of Dili diocese, its first native prelate, was conferred posthumously on Monsignor da Costa Lopes himself; Father Hilario Madeira of Dili diocese’s Nossa Senhora de Fatima (Our Lady of Fatima) Church in Suai; Father Mario do Carmo Lemos Belo, former vicar general of Baucau diocese; local Canossian Sister Maria Celeste de Carvalho; and Italian Canossian Sister Erminia Cazzaniga.

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