(UPDATE) DILI, East Timor — Pope Francis, the first pontiff to visit an independent East Timor, will meet a clergy overwhelmed by child abuse scandals that have been largely ignored by the deeply Catholic country's freedom heroes.
The cases include Nobel-winning Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo, who helped Asia's youngest nation free itself from Indonesian occupation, but who the Vatican covertly punished over claims he had sexually abused young children for decades.
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