Timor-Leste’s economy has long relied on petroleum and gas revenues, but declining reserves and shifting global energy ...

More than 70 percent of children in Timor-Leste enter school without fluency in these official languages, often struggling to understand lessons and impacting their ability to succeed in school. To ...

Some 96 percent of Timor Leste’s population is Catholic. Keenly aware of the importance of educating the young, the Catholic Church runs 42,000 kindergarten and primary schools, 40,000 secondary ...

"Over in Timor-Leste you can build a school for 130 kids with a vegetable garden and make some really significant intergenerational developmental change." With his 18-year-old friend, Leo ...

On the second day of his apostolic visit to East Timor (Timor-Leste), Pope Francis first met with children and religious sisters at the Irmãs Alma School in Dili on Tuesday morning and thanked ...