Articles of category "East Timor"

Today almost hundred percent of East Timor population is Catholic. The Catholic Church of East Timor is extremely conservative about rituals and traditions. The divorce is almost impossible, the formal attire of a woman is dress only, and the Catholic schools incorporate severe discipline. The Church of East Timor was a major player in the resistance of East Timor to the Indonesian occupation and it continues to play a vital role in people's everyday lives, political economy of the region, and culture.

Australia is mighty, rich, developed and healthy country and East Timor is poor, almost illiterate, and tiny. What these two can argue about or share between? It turns out there is much. Billions dollars reserves of gas and oil beneath the Timor Sea make Australia feel ill at ease. It is hard to give back resources that should belong to East Timor, when they have been so successfully and profitably used for many years.