Pope Francis lands in Timor-Leste to encourage its recovery from traumatic past

About 98% of its 1.3 million people are Catholic, making it the most Catholic country outside the Vatican.

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00:00Pope Francis has arrived in Timor-Leste, the third stop on his trip through Southeast Asia

00:06and Oceania.

00:08His visit comes on the heels of the 25th anniversary of the UN-backed referendum that paved the

00:13way for Timor-Leste�s independence from Indonesia.

00:17Some 98 percent of the country�s 1.3 million people are Catholic, making it the most Catholic

00:23country in the world outside the Vatican.

00:28Pope Francis will celebrate a mass on Tuesday, with some 700,000 people expected to attend.