Pope Francis arrived to a warm welcome in East Timor on Monday on a three-day stay, the first papal visit since it gained independence from Indonesia in 2002.
Some 97 per cent of the population identifies as Catholic, making it the country with the highest percentage of Catholics outside of Vatican City.
Vatican officials say an open-air celebration of Mass on Tuesday may include more than half the country’s 1.3 million citizens.
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