Pope Francis is visiting East Timor in the wake of a clergy abuse scandal, but will he address it?

(28 Aug 2024)
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Dili, East Timor - 13 August 2024
1. Painting of Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo hanging on the museum wall
2. Pan right from Belo's painting to museum guard

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Dili, East Timor - 12 August 2024
3. East Timor flag flies at the governor's office
4. Pan left of the governor's office
5. People walking on the sidewalk
6. Cars and motorbikes pass by on the street with posters lined up on poles
7. A welcome poster for Pope Francis "Welcome to Timor Leste, the Holy Father Pope Francis."

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Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Recent
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Tjiske Lingma, Dutch journalist:
"I think with the arrival of the pope I think it's the time for the pope to say some words to the victim to apologise."

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Dili, East Timor - 13 August 2024
9. Various of people walking in the market
10. SOUNDBITE (Terun) Martinha Goveia, University student:
"I feel sad if Bishop Belo does not come to this important event because he is an important person in the church, that is not good in my opinion."
11. Women traders at the market
12. SOUNDBITE (Tetun) Alfredo Ximenes, vegetable trader:
"Our political leaders should immediately meet him to end the problem and persuade him to return, because after all he has contributed greatly to national independence.”

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Dili, East Timor - 11 August 2024
13. Priest leads a service at a church
14. Various of churchgoers at mass

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Dili, East Timor - 14 August 2024
15. Tilt up of mural on the wall from words "We won in freedom but lost morals" to bishop Belo's
16. Mural of Belo with other East Timorese heroes

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Dili, East Timor - 13 August 2024
17. Tourists look at posters of East Timor history
18. Tilt up of posters
19. Photograph of Bishop Belo and Ramos Horta, former president, at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo, Norway

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FILE - Dili, East Timor, 21 Dec 2021
20. Various of Priest Richard Daschbach speaking with lawyers and walking into the courtroom to hear the verdict

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Dili, East Timor - 13 August 2024
21. Various shots of Dili prison where Dasbach is serving a 12-year sentence

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Dili, East Timor - 12 August 2024
22. Set up shot of the historian Da Conceixao
23. SOUNDBITE (Indonesian) Da Conceixao, historian:
" To all elements of the church, they play a role in a difficult position but we salute them because they take all the risks to defend us."
24. Valentim da Costa Pinto, executive director of The Timor-Leste NGO Forum, talking to his staffs
25. SOUNDBITE (Indonesian) Valentim da Costa Pinto, executive director of The Timor-Leste NGO Forum:
" Paedophilia and sexual abuse are common enemies, so the tendency of support from the prime minister is another matter and not about that, because everyone who breaks the rules in Timor cannot be linked to the issue of the struggle for independence."
26. Dili cathedral
27. Pull focus of statue
28. Father Ludgerio Martins da Silva in front of church
29. Pan right from the lamp to the cross of Jesus
30. SOUNDBITE (English) Father Ludgerio Martins da Silva, Chancellor of Dili Diocese:
"Bishop Belo, he left the country in 2004, 20 years ago so, I think I don't see a lot of people questioning the presence of bishop because he is not here, he is in Portugal."
31. SOUNDBITE (Indonesian) Da Conceixao, historian:

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Dili, East Timor - 11 August 2024
32. Various of women and children playing on the beach before sunset
33. Sun covered by clouds before sunset.
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