One of the most Catholic countries on earth, where the Church sheltered a resistance and where the ancestors still get their share.
Why this channel
What you will learn here
Faith organises the week, the calendar and the landscape; visitors will encounter it constantly and understand little of it.
Four short filmed conversations with the people who know this subject first-hand are being produced for this page by Stays of Timor. Each is two to three minutes — honest, local, and recorded in Timor-Leste.
The interviews
Four conversations, four angles
🎥Interview coming soon
Interview 1How Timor-Leste became so Catholic
Mission, the occupation, and a conversion that accelerated after 1975.
🎥Interview coming soon
Interview 2The Church in the resistance years
Sanctuary, testimony, language and risk.
🎥Interview coming soon
Interview 3Feast days, processions and the village calendar
How the Church year shapes the year a visitor experiences.
🎥Interview coming soon
Interview 4Church and ancestors, side by side
How most families hold both without conflict.
In pictures
History & Faith
Balibo Flag HouseBalibo fort gatewayPousada de BaucauChurch at Manatuto
Photos: Ministry of Tourism & Environment, Timor-Leste
Part of the Timor Information Channels — 28 subjects, told by the people who know them. Produced by Stays of Timor.
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