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Mar 9, 2024 · The Portuguese colonized the island in the 16th century and introduced Catholicism to the local population. This marked the beginning of Christianity’s influence on Timorese society. In 1975, Indonesia invaded Timor-Leste and occupied it for over two decades.
Indonesia invaded East Timor in 1975 and annexed the former Portuguese colony. East Timorese animist belief systems did not fit with Indonesia's constitutional monotheism, resulting in mass conversions to Christianity.
The first known missioner in East Timor was the Dominican Antonio Taveira, who came from the neighboring island of Flores and baptized some 5,000 Timorese, probably in Lifao, Oe-cusse, shortly before 1556. He and his confreres sought to convert the local chieftains, whose subjects might then also enter the Church.
Aug 13, 2019 · East Timor Religion, a Catholic Community in Southeast Asia. East Timorese Christians carry crucifixes during a procession in Dili to mark Palm Sunday on March 16, 2008. About 97% of East Timor's 800,000 people are Roman Catholic. It also has Muslim and Protestant minororities.
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Sep 1, 2004 · East Timor’s liberation was indeed a victory of faith—one in which the Catholic Church played a crucial part. After 400 years as a Portuguese colony, the prospect of freedom appeared fleetingly in 1975 when Portugal with-drew from the tiny half-island.
234 East Timor the famous Christian faith statement, the Nicene Creed, was officially formulated there. Patristic theology—the theology of the Church Fathers—developed in the early period in the midst of doctrinal debates and controversies.
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The Timorese people so accustomed to the presence of God in their lives, in their very being, joyfully embraced Christianity, and ever since then your identity as Timorese and Christian has been inseparable ... the people of Timor-Leste have possessed that light, that sense of being with God, from the very beginning" (Marino 2015).
